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Members of the royal family will be isolating this Christmas after a positive Covid-19 test in the family.
Princess Anne’s husband – Sir Timothy Laurence – has tested positive for COVID-19, according to Sky News.
The Princess Royal is also now self-isolating for the holiday period.
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It means she is unlikely to be able to spend Christmas with her mother, the Queen.
The Queen has announced that she will not be spending Christmas as usual at the Sandringham estate.
Amid concerns over the rising number of Omicron cases, the monarch will be staying at Windsor Castle for the Christmas holidays.
She will be visited by some family members although it is not known which ones.
The Palace says this decision is in line with the “precautionary approach” the monarch, now aged 95, has taken throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
She had been expected to welcome around 50 relatives – including Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall – to a traditional pre-Christmas lunch at Windsor Castle this week.
But the event was cancelled amid rising cases of the variant.
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