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ROBERT HARDMAN: This virus won’t trouble Prince Charles NewsColony His was perhaps the most stylish royal solution to the handshake ban which prefaced this crisis: a traditional Hindu ‘namaste’, or pressing of the palms with a nod of the head. As we now learn, a ‘namaste’ was not quite enough. The Prince of Wales thus becomes the world’s most high-profile Covid-19 patient to date. And despite the inevitable concerns which apply to any 71-year-old diagnosed with the virus, he is said to be in good spirits and ‘up and about’. Since the symptoms first presented themselves on Sunday, he has not been bed-ridden and is no worse today then he was then.  The Prince of Wales, known as the Duke of Rothesay while in Scotland, during a visit to Dunnottar Castle near Stonehaven last February  Indeed, the latest bulletin is that ‘it is unlikely his condition will escalate in to a more serious case from now on’. According to one person who spoke to him yesterday afternoon, he w...