While paying a visit to some coronavirus vaccination center in Norfolk, England, on Monday, February 22, William was asked regarding the way his grandfather is holding up. “Yes, he’s OK,” the 38-year-old royal said, per the Associated Press. “They are keeping track of him”

Us Weekly confirmed on February 17 that Philip, 99, was declared to King Edward VII Hospital in London as a”precautionary measure.” At the time, Buckingham Palace said that he”will stay in the hospital on a doctor’s recommendation for a few days.”

Days after, royal correspondent Omid Scobie tweeted an update from a palace source. “After consultation with his doctor [Prince Philip] is very likely to remain at [the] hospital for monitoring and remaining weekend and into next week,” the tweet read on Friday, February 19. “As we’ve mentioned previously the physician is acting with plenty of caution. The Duke remains in great spirits.”

As soon as the Duke of Edinburgh last fell sick in December 2019, he checked into King Edward VII Hospital to undergo”monitoring and treatment regarding a preexisting condition.” He was released four days later on Christmas Eve and subsequently returned to Sandringham Estate.

Philip married Queen Elizabeth II at 1947.

Last month, the longtime couple took a precautionary health measure by receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.

William softly battled the novel coronavirus before in the pandemic. “William insisted on keeping this low-key,” a source told Us only in November 2020. “Only a handful of relatives, senior royal employees and close friends knew about it at the time.”

The source mentioned that the Duke of Cambridge”followed all the necessary self-isolation regulations” while quarantining at Anmer Hall. “[He] refused to allow it down him and even managed to operate whilst recovering at home in a sectioned-off place,” the insider persists. “There were demanding minutes, of course, and William learned how terrible that this virus is and how seriously it requires to be taken.”

William’s dad and Philip’s eldest son, Charles, declared his COVID-19 identification in late March and completed his self-isolation soon after.

“Having recently gone through the practice of contracting this coronavirus, fortunately with relatively mild symptoms, I finally find myself on the opposite side of the disease,” the Prince of Wales, 72, said in a video shared by Clarence House in April 2020. “But still, in no less a country of social distance and basic isolation.”

The palace shown on Friday the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle educated the monarch, 94, that “that they will not be returning as working members of the royal household ” The couple, who announced on February 14 that they’re expecting their second child, now reside at Markle’s native California using their 21-month-old son, Archie.