Prince Albert of Monaco tests positive to COVID-19 for a second time

Prince Albert of Monaco has tested positive to COVID-19 for a second time.

The 64-year-old's diagnosis was confirmed in a message from the Prince's Palace on Wednesday.

The statement read: "The Prince's Palace announces that H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco has tested positive for COVID-19."

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The message added that Prince Albert was asymptomatic and that his health was no cause for concern.

It did not include any details about whether Prince Albert's children, Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, seven, have contracted the virus.

There was also no update on his wife Princess Charlene, who recently finished a four-month stay in a Swiss health clinic.

In March, the Prince's Palace confirmed Charlene had returned to Monaco where she was to continue her "convalescence in the Principality with her husband and her children by her side".

But she has not been seen in public since.

Charlene had been receiving treatment at the private clinic since November when she returned briefly to Monaco after spending six months in South Africa.

At the time Prince Albert said his wife had been suffering "exhaustion, both emotional and physical" and voluntarily entered the treatment facility.

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Princess Charlene hasn't attended a royal event since January 2021. It remains to be seen when Her Serene Highness will be well enough to resume her official duties.

Prince Albert's second bout of coronavirus comes more than two years after he was first infected.

He tested positive in early 2020, one of the first royals to announce they had contracted the virus.

Prince Charles, too, tested positive for the second time in February. Days later his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, caught the virus.

Buckingham Palace later confirmed, on February 20, that Queen Elizabeth had also tested positive.

This week Her Majesty spoke about battling the virus for the first time, saying it left her feeling "very tired and exhausted".

Prince Albert recently travelled to the UK to attend Prince Philip's Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey.

He joined members from Europe's royal families, including King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, and King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain, in paying their respects to the Duke of Edinburgh.

Prince Albert is expected to continue with desk duties at the palace in Monte Carlo until he is fully recovered.