Covid-19

Robert Lacey writes for Vanity Fair – The monarch’s job is to set a good example, but so far in the pandemic she has seemingly operated by different rules.

Robert Lacey is quoted in this Newsweek article about the news that Prince William tested positive for coronovirus earlier this year.

“She has always had this historical perspective about life, and now she embodies history,” her biographer Robert Lacey tells PEOPLE.

In the Queen’s moving and historic broadcast last night (Sunday 5th April 2020) on the national crisis and challenge of the Coronavirus— only the fifth time that she has made such a special address to the nation — Her Majesty recalled the very first such ‘wireless’ address that she made as Princess Elizabeth.

Robert Lacey is quoted in this Daily Mail article highlighted the Queen’s three other “special addresses”