The Queen has remained ‘busy’ at Windsor Castle during the coronavirus pandemic amid reports she could be away from public life for the foreseeable future.

The monarch is to withdraw for months in what the newspaper said could be the longest absence from official duties in her 68-year reign, according to the Sunday Times.

She has already been at her Berkshire residence for almost eight weeks, having moved there from Buckingham Palace in March, and spent her 94th birthday in lockdown on April 21.

While following the guidance on remaining safe, The Queen is still working, conducting a weekly audience with the Prime Minister by phone and receiving her daily red boxes of Government papers, an official said.

A spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace added: ‘The Queen continues to be busy and will follow appropriate advice on engagements.’

The royal, who is at Windsor with the Duke of Edinburgh and a reduced household, has made two televised speeches and one audio address to the nation since the lockdown.

She made a speech to the country on April 5, when she delivered a message of hope, saying if we remained resolute in the face of the outbreak ‘we will overcome it’.

The Queen delivered what was believed to be her first Easter address in April through an audio message, telling the public ‘by keeping apart we keep others safe’.

On Friday she gave a poignant message to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, praising the nation’s response to the coronavirus outbreak that has filled empty streets with ‘love and care’.

The Queen has said of the global Covid-19 pandemic: ‘While we have faced challenges before, this one is different.’

She is keeping in touch with her family by phone and video calls as the royals follow social-distancing rules along with the rest of the country.

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