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Camilla tests positive for COVID-19 days after Charles contracts virus

Watch: Camilla tests positive for Covid days after Charles contracts virus

The Duchess of Cornwall has tested positive for COVID-19, days after Prince Charles confirmed he had the virus.

Clarence House announced Camilla, 74, had tested positive and is self-isolating.

A spokesman said: “Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating.

The Duchess of Cornwall has tested positive for COVID-19 (Getty)
The Duchess of Cornwall carried out a string of engagements last Thursday, the same day her husband, the Prince of Wales, was confirmed to have tested positive. (Getty)

“We continue to follow government guidelines.”

The duchess carried out a string of engagements last Thursday, the day Charles was confirmed to have tested positive.

Concerns were raised over the Queen’s health, as she was in direct contact with Charles two days before he tested positive.

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Buckingham Palace said on Thursday that the Queen was not displaying any symptoms, but refused to confirm whether she had tested positive or negative, citing medical privacy.

The 95-year-old is believed to have spent time with Charles on Tuesday when her eldest son was carrying out an investiture on her behalf at her Windsor Castle home.

Queen Elizabeth II during a reception in the Ballroom of Sandringham House, which is the Queen's Norfolk residence, with representatives from local community groups to celebrate the start of the Platinum Jubilee. Picture date: Saturday February 5, 2022.
Concerns were raised over the Queen's health as she was in contact with Charles two days before he tested positive. (PA)

The news comes just a week after the Queen marked her Platinum Jubilee by expressing her “sincere wish” that the Duchess of Cornwall would be Queen.

The wife of a king automatically becomes a queen consort and only a change in legislation would prevent her from doing so.

When the former Mrs Parker Bowles married Charles 17 years ago, aides insisted she did not want to be queen and “intended” to be known as princess consort instead.

Camilla was blamed for the breakdown of the prince’s marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales.

The Prince of Wales speaks at a reception to celebrate the British Asian Trust at the British Museum, in London. Picture date: Wednesday February 9, 2022.
Prince Charles pictured the night before he tested positive for COVID-19. (PA)

In the decades after the divorce, the untimely death of Diana in 1997 and Camilla’s acceptance into 'The Firm', the public mood towards the duchess has softened, and she has gradually taken on a more prominent position within the Royal F

amily.

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