Prince Charles Health: Royal Gets First Vaccine With Camilla A Month After Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, have received their first COVID-19 vaccination almost a month after Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
On Wednesday, Feb. 10, Clarence House issued an official statement confirming that the heir to the British throne and his wife have finished their first jab. At 72 and 73 years old, Charles and Camilla belong to the demographic who are qualified to receive the vaccine earlier than the rest of the population in the British government's rollout program.
According to BBC, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are now among the over 12 million senior citizens and frontline workers in the United Kingdom who have had their first vaccination. It is understood that the royal pair will get their next injection in a couple of weeks.
Exactly a month ago, it was Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip who announced their vaccination while in isolation at Windsor Castle. However, as with Charles and Camilla, the monarch and the Duke of Edinburgh did not reveal if the kind of vaccine they received. Queen Elizabeth also didn't announce when she got her second jab.
Charles was one of the first high-profile personalities to contract the virus at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. The Prince of Wales was isolating at Birkhall, his home in Scotland, with Camilla when they tested for COVID-19. While the Duchess of Cornwall was negative, Charles had been positive and had to keep staying in isolation for a week. Despite his age, the heir apparent only presented mild symptoms of COVID-19 and didn't need hospitalization.
In June, Charles told some NHS staff during a return to in-person but socially-distanced royal engagement that he has yet to regain his sense of taste and smell. Amid talks regarding the vaccine rollout in December, the Prince of Wales said that he doesn't mind if he's not on the priority list since he still has antibodies from his COVID-19 infection.
Meanwhile, Charles is said to be happy about President Joe Biden's choice as the climate change envoy for the United States. Biden appointed former State Secretary John Kerry, whom Charles has had the privilege of working side-by-side before.
According to reports, the Prince of Wales, who is a long-time environmentalist, feels encouraged with Biden's decisions on environmental issues. One of the first executive orders Biden signed was America re-joining the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
Charles and Kerry, on the other hand, have attended the Economist World Ocean Summit in the U.S. and have discussed environmental issues with various groups together.