The Queen tested positive for COVID-19 in February, few days after her son Prince Charles also had the virus and now the monarch has revealed Queen’s personal struggles following Covid-19.

The Queen revealed how COVID took on her, when she spoke to patients and NHS staff about the “horrible” pandemic.

95-year-old monarch tested COVID ­positive but she carried on performing duties in isolation from Windsor Castle.

When she spoke about her condition during video call with the Royal London Hospital to mark the official opening of its Queen Elizabeth Unit.

While talking Mrs Hussain told the Queen at one point there were around 500 friends and family on a Zoom call praying for her husband. Queen made them smile when she joked and said, “So you have a large family, or a large influence on people?”

On Wednesday, she knew how the 155-bed unit in East London was built in record time to treat almost 800 patients. Queen was told by one senior nurse: “We held their hands, we wiped their tears and we provided comfort.”

The Hospital chaplain Imam Faruq Siddiqi explained that families “felt a sense of hope” when he visited their loved ones.

HE said, “Although I didn’t hold any miracles, I hope I was able to bring some sort of comfort to them through my presence and prayers,”

The Queen said: “It obviously was a very frightening experience to have COVID very badly, wasn’t it?”

He replied: “What made it worse was being by themselves.”

Queen said, “Exactly. So they were alone, too.”

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