Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II attended the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London last Monday. Now the palace announces that the 82-year-old has contracted Corona. Almost all upcoming appointments this week have been cancelled.
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark has been infected with the corona virus. The palace announced this on Instagram, among other things. “Her Majesty the Queen tested positive for Covid-19 last night and is now staying at Fredensborg Palace,” the statement said. Fredensborg Palace is located north of the capital Copenhagen.
The Queen tested positive for Covid-19 for the first time in February of this year. At the time, it was reported that she had received three vaccinations against the coronavirus.
The Queen’s activities this week have been canceled, the palace said in a statement. However, the “Friday evening party at Christiansborg Palace for the government, the Danish Parliament and the Danish Members of the European Parliament” has not been cancelled. This will take place with “His Royal Highness the Crown Prince (Frederik) and Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess (Mary) as hosts,” according to the Danish royal family.
It was only on Monday that 82-year-old Queen Margrethe and her 54-year-old son, Crown Prince Frederik, traveled to London to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey along with 2,000 other invited guests, including various crowned heads and heads of state to attend