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Hello and welcome back to Pods Save the Queen.

We are on coronavirus lockdown.

I don't know what number day it is because all of the days feel a little bit the same.

I'm your host and Gripper. I am joined on the line by Daily Mirror Royal Editor Russell Meyers also working from home as we get through

all of this strange and uncertain times Russell lovely to talk to you again and you

hello so lovely to you again. And you, hello. So we were intending this week to do something

sort of coronavirus free if we could and we are still doing that so there will be an

episode all about the Royal Family's relationship with Ireland and also William and Kate's recent visit there obviously which is going to be great so I'm excited for you to hear that but obviously yesterday huge

news when Prince Charles heir to the throne tested positive for coronavirus Russell what is what is the latest talk us

through yesterday what do we know how's it unfolding and how is the Prince of

Wales? Well yeah let's start with that then yeah we've been told he's recuperating well he hasn't been

bedridden or anything but he was feeling under the weather probably last

the weekend just gone.

So, I mean, this was a major, major point in the coronavirus

sort of drama that's going on.

And just as we were thinking that the Royals hadn't been up to much

or that we hadn't heard that much from them up pop this news at about 10 pile probably

about half of 10 on Wednesday morning that certainly the Prince of Wales

had tested positive for coronavirus and I think probably he's the biggest

name in the world to get it right now so it's an inescapable fact that of course now we're talking about it.

So there have been talk earlier in the week that Prince Albert of Monaco had had tested positive as the first royal possibly to be

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