Britain's Prince Charles discussed his "distressing" battle with coronavirus in a video message broadcast on Wednesday following the end of his self-isolation.
Charles, 71, said he was lucky to suffer only "relatively mild symptoms," in his first public comments since the royal family confirmed last week that he had tested positive for Covid-19.
"I now find myself on the other side of the illness, but still in no less a state of social distance and general isolation," he said from his home in Scotland, where he had self-isolated.
"As we are all learning, this is a strange, frustrating and often distressing experience when the presence of family and friends is no longer possible and the normal structures of life are suddenly removed," the heir to the British throne said.
"At such an unprecedented and anxious time in all our lives, my wife and I are thinking particularly of all those who have lost their loved ones in such very difficult and abnormal circumstances, and of those having to endure sickness, isolation and loneliness."
Clarence House, a royal residence in London, announced on Monday that Charles had ended his self-isolation.
It reported on March 25 that he had tested positive for Covid-19 but did not say when he first experienced symptoms.
"It is not possible to ascertain from whom the prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks," it said.
