Security in an except from an annual Royal Christmas TV special called the 16th Gustav highlighted the growing impact of the virus a rare intervention from a monarch whose duties are largely ceremonial.

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Do you think that it's simply, I think, that we have failed, Many people have died and that is horrible.

That is something we can all sympathize with.

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The king's son and daughter in law tested positive last month.

Sweden has been an outlier in its national pandemic response, relying mainly on voluntary social distancing and hygiene recommendations to slow the spread while shunning lockdowns and face masks and leaving schools, restaurants and businesses largely open the government's response to the pandemic was widely supported by Swedes in the spring as they carried on much as normal while most of Europe entered locked down.

But the rising death toll, particularly among elderly residents off care homes, has drawn increasing criticism.