London: Britain’s Prince William kept his positive coronavirus test in April a secret in order to not worry anyone around the time his father, Prince Charles, was also self-isolating after his own COVID-19 diagnosis, UK media reports claimed on Monday.
The 38-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who is the second in line to the British throne, was treated by palace doctors and followed government guidelines by isolating at his family home Anmer Hall, in Norfolk, eastern England.
Despite his illness, he managed to carry out around 14 telephone and video call engagements in April, including phoning National Health Service (NHS) workers at Queen’s Hospital in Burton.
A source told The Sun’ newspaper that the prince had been “hit pretty hard by the virus”, adding that it “really knocked him for six”. Kensington Palace, the Duke of Cambridge’s office in London, declined to…