Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for COVID-19, Buckingham Palace announced on Sunday.
The palace said the 95-year-old monarch, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms and expects to continue with light duties at Windsor Castle in the coming week.
"She will continue to receive medical help and will follow all appropriate guidelines," the Palace said in a statement.
After receiving three shots of the coronavirus vaccine, the Queen has been fully vaccinated.
Earlier this month, Prince Charles tested positive for COVID-19. This was the second time he had contracted it. Four days later, Duchess Camilla tested positive. Both have been fully vaccinated and have received a booster shot.
The palace did not say whether either of them had recently met the queen.
In October, the Queen spent a night in hospital for an unspecified "preliminary investigation" and "regrettably" canceled two other highly anticipated personal appearances on doctors' orders, according to palace statements.
She then rested for two weeks at Windsor Castle, where she has lived mostly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. She put up with "light, desk-based duties."
On 6 February the queen completed 70 years on the throne. She was proclaimed queen in 1952, the same date her father, King George VI, died at Sandringham, the monarch's estate in Norfolk, after surgery for lung cancer.
The palace released a new photo to commemorate the occasion, showing her smiling and dressed in a light green dress, sitting in front of her red dispatch box containing government papers, with a picture of her father next to her.
The day before, he held a low-key reception for locals and volunteer groups at Sandringham's ballroom, where he cut a cake with a platinum jubilee symbol. In photos of the gathering she is seen smiling, jokingly and without a mask, wearing a light blue dress, daisies at the waist, pearls and a platinum double flower brooch. He cut the cake while holding a moving cane, the ever-present black purse in his hand.
His long reign will be celebrated with a four-day platinum jubilee of parties, parades and competitions beginning June 2, when the weather is (usually) better.
On the eve of the anniversary of her accession, the Queen issued a message of gratitude to her people and her family, saying for the first time that she "sincerely wishes" that the Duchess Camilla of Cornwall be known as the "Queen Consort". Will go "When Prince Charles becomes her heir.
"And when, in the fullness of time, my son Charles becomes king, I know you will give him and his wife Camilla the same support you have given me," said the statement released by Buckingham Palace. "And it is my heartfelt wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be known as Queen Consort as she continues her faithful service."
His announcement about Camilla gave some final touch to the long-standing question of what to say to the former Camilla Parker Bowles, who was once so controversial as to have allegedly broken off Charles' marriage to the late Princess Diana. that she used the title Duchess of Cornwall instead of Princess of Wales.
The Queen's birth anniversary comes after a series of personal crises. Last week, her son Prince Andrew settled out of court with accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who she says was sex trafficked for the prince by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein when she was 17. Andrew agreed to pay an undisclosed amount and donate it to Giuffre's charity in support. of the rights of the victims.
The Queen's husband, Prince Philip, 73, died last April at the peak of the pandemic. Strict social distancing rules forced her to sit alone during the funeral service, a spectacle that had touched many who had to grieve amid the COVID-19 pandemic.