Queen and Prince Charles pictured on socially-distanced Easter walk

The pair were pictured in the gardens of Frogmore House

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The Queen and her oldest son, Prince Charles have been photographed out on a socially-distanced walk ahead of Easter Sunday.

The monarch and the Prince of Wales walked among the daffodils in the gardens of royal residence Frogmore House, where the Queen has been living in lockdown.

The photographs were taken on March 23, a week after Prince Philip came out of hospital but they were released on Good Friday.

The royals smiled and laughed on their spring stroll and daffodils and spring blossom can be seen in the background.

Last year, the Queen gave her first-ever Easter address, amid the first coronavirus lockdown.

"We know that coronavirus will not overcome us. As dark as death can be—particularly for those suffering with grief—light and life are greater," she said.

The photographs were taken on March 23 (Getty Images)

"May the living flame of the Easter hope be a steady guide as we face the future. I wish everyone of all faiths and denominations a blessed Easter."

This year, Charles has recorded a poem by Catholic priest Gerard Manley Hopkins to show solidarity with Christians.

The recording of Charles narrating the poem God’s Gradeur will be played during a virtual service at the boarding school where Hopkins once taught, Stonyhurst College in Lancashire.

Clarence House said: "The Prince of Wales has recorded the Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem, God’s Grandeur, to show support for Christians around the world at Easter.

"Easter is the most important festival of the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion, and Hopkins’s poem captures the hope and joy associated with that season."

The poem begins with the lines: "The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

"It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed."