Prince Philip, 99, and the Queen, 94, received their COVID-19 vaccinations last week, joining more than a million people who have been given the jab. It is understood the Queen decided the information should be made public to prevent inaccuracies and further speculation. ITV’s Royal Rota hosts Chris Ship and Lizzie Robinson discussed how Philip may have acted when getting the vaccine.
Mr Ship said: “Prince Philip had it as well. Clearly, he’s right at the top end of the people who need to have it because of his vulnerability given his age.
“He’s 100 in June.
“He’s definitely of the right age to have it and I think he would have been like, ‘give me that right away’.
“What we know of Prince Philip is, ‘stick it in my arm and let’s get on with it’.”
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Ms Robinson added: “Their son, the Prince of Wales said that he would absolutely get the Covid vaccination.”
It is not known which vaccine the Queen and Duke were given but it is likely they will receive their second dose up to 12 weeks later.
Royal commentator Richard Eden revealed that there was a backlash at Buckingham Palace as the Queen felt “bullied” to give out medical information by Boris Johnson’s Government briefings.
He told Palace Confidential on MailPlus: “A month or two before Christmas, we had a lot of stories appear about how the Queen and Prince Philip would get the vaccine.
Royal biographer Angela Levin added: “I think their lives have been in the public eye for so long, so many decades that I think they’re quite entitled to keep this to themselves.
“It’s not our business, really. We’re all got to make up our own minds with these things.”
The Queen and Philip have been spending lockdown sheltering at their Windsor Castle home, and had a quiet Christmas at the Berkshire residence after deciding to forgo the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.
Making the Queen and duke’s inoculations public is likely to have the added effect of giving sceptical members of the public more confidence in the vaccine.
