Desk Report
Publish: 16 Feb 2022, 10:30 pm
Queen Elizabeth II || Photo: Collected
Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday carried out her
first in-person official engagements since fears emerged that she could have
contracted coronavirus last week.
Anxiety grew after Prince Charles, her eldest
son and heir to the throne, tested positive for Covid-19 for the second time,
two days after meeting the 95-year-old monarch.
His wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, also
then tested positive, and the couple have been self-isolating since, according
to aides.
Buckingham Palace has not revealed whether the
queen -- who this month marked 70 years on the throne -- has taken any Covid
tests herself.
On Wednesday, a week on from the scare, she
received two senior Royal Navy officers at her Windsor Castle residence west of
London.
A photograph posted on the royal family's
Twitter account showed the monarch holding a walking stick and wearing a
patterned dress, as she met one of the officers in the Oak Room sitting room at
the castle.
This followed her holding two virtual audiences
from Windsor the previous day, meeting via video-link with newly appointed
ambassadors from Estonia and Spain.
Meanwhile earlier this month, on the eve of the
70th anniversary of her accession to the throne, she held a reception for
locals at Sandringham, her estate in eastern England.
It was reportedly her largest in-person public
engagement since an unexplained health issue last autumn that saw her spend a
night in hospital.
This week's return to regular royal duties,
after limiting them as the Omicron variant swept Britain in recent months,
comes with the royal family mired in scandals.
The queen's second son, Prince Andrew, settled a
sexual assault civil lawsuit in the United States on Tuesday, reportedly for
o12 million ($16.3 million, 14.3 million euros) -- which newspapers claim she
will partly fund.
Meanwhile police in London said Wednesday they
were investigating claims that a Saudi tycoon was offered UK honours in return
for donations to Prince Charles' charitable foundation.
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