Prince Andrew should miss the Platinum Jubilee service of thanksgiving tomorrow after testing optimistic for Covid, the royal household mentioned.
The Duke of York was absent from festivities at present, however was set to hitch the high-profile occasion in St Paul’s Cathedral.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman mentioned: ‘After enterprise a routine check The Duke has examined optimistic for Covid and with remorse will not be attending tomorrow’s service.’
The monarch’s disgraced second son stepped down from public life after the furore over his friendship with paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, and paid thousands and thousands to settle a civil sexual assault case to a lady he claimed by no means to have met.
The duke was solid out of the working monarchy and not makes use of his HRH type after Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein, accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17.
The duke denied the claims.
It's understood Andrew noticed the Queen in the previous couple of days however has been enterprise common testing and has not seen her since he examined optimistic.
He didn't be part of her on the Buckingham Palace balcony as she watched the flypast with senior royals.
The Queen restricted these on the balcony to working members of her household, her Cambridge great-grandchildren and two youngest grandchildren – a transfer she took after ‘cautious consideration’ the Palace mentioned.
Earlier than the Jubilee festivities, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby had instructed Andrew was ‘looking for to make amends’, including: ‘I feel that’s an excellent factor.’
Andrew took a central function in escorting his mom to the Duke of Edinburgh’s memorial service in March.
It got here as a shock change to the deliberate preparations as solely weeks earlier he had been banished from royal public life and paid to settle his court docket case.
The transfer was taken as an indication of the monarch’s assist for her son.
He's the newest in a protracted line of royals to catch Covid, together with the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke of Cambridge and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.
Princess Michael of Kent, who's married to the Queen’s cousin Prince Michael of Kent, suffered extreme signs when she contracted Covid-19 in November 2020.
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