Queen Elizabeth II Moves Out of Longtime Home Buckingham Palace After COVID-19 Battle
usmagazine.comA major change of address. Queen Elizabeth II is leaving behind Buckingham Palace for good, a source confirms to Us Weekly.The monarch, 95, has been living in her weekend home Windsor Castle since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Instead of returning to Buckingham Palace as the pandemic subsides, she will now make Windsor Castle her full-time home.The sovereign has lived in Buckingham Palace for much of her 70-year reign, but Windsor is where she spent her final days with late husband Prince Philip, who died in April 2021 at age 99.
Because of coronavirus-related restrictions, the spouses were able to be together much more often than they might have been otherwise.“The positive thing to have come out of it is that the queen and Prince Philip have spent more time together in the last year — because of COVID, they’ve both been forced to stay at Windsor Castle,” royal expert Andrew Morton told Us in April 2021. “They were two unique people and only they knew what it was like to be them.
They were in unique circumstances, they shared things.”The queen recently recovered from her own battle with COVID-19 after testing positive for the illness on February 20.
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