PRINCE Charles has been seen for the first time since testing positive for coronavirus.
Earlier in the week the Duke of Rothesay jumped the queue to be tested despite only suffering from mild symptoms.
He did so after fleeing to his second home Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, after the UK and Scottish governments had instructed people not to leave their homes and to only go on essential trips.
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Clarence House posted a video in their Instagram stories of heir to throne Charles joining in with the round of applause for the NHS from Birkhall, his private home on the Balmoral estate in Scotland.
The prince, 71, clapped along as he stood indoors smartly dressed in an open necked shirt, and jacket with a handkerchief in his pocket.
Camilla, who is isolating from Charles because she does not have the Covid-19 illness, was also seen in separate footage clapping on her own as she looked out of an open window.
Charles had been at his desk working on Thursday.
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He was said to be "enormously touched" by well-wishers' kind words after receiving hundreds of get-well messages, the day after it was revealed he had contracted the disease.
He was not the only royal taking part in the country-wide Clap for Carers.
His grandchildren Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis were filmed by the Cambridges applauding, while the tribute was also observed at Windsor Castle where the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are staying.
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