Kate Garraway reveals her fears after meeting Prince Charles days before coronavirus diagnosis


‘I’m not blaming him but people are going to be concerned’: Kate Garraway reveals her fears after meeting Prince Charles days before he tested positive for coronavirus

Kate Garraway voiced her fears on Thursday’s Good Morning Britain, after meeting with Prince Charles just days before he tested positive for coronavirus.

The GMB presenter spoke about her meeting live on air, revealing that the pair had got ‘relatively close’ at the Prince’s Trust Awards on March 11.

Discussing the royal’s diagnosis, which was revealed by Clarence House on Wednesday, Kate said she has no symptoms but admitted the many people who have come into contact with Charles in recent weeks ‘are going to be concerned.’ 

Meeting: Kate Garraway voiced her fears on Thursday’s Good Morning Britain, after meeting with Prince Charles just days before he tested positive for coronavirus (pictured on March 11 at the Prince’s Trust Awards with Alexander Armstrong)

Kate, 52, recalled her meeting with Charles, 71,  to ITV’s Royal Editor Chris Ship.

She said: ‘I actually saw him on the 11th of March. It was the first day he’d stopped shaking hands, and we did the namaste greeting at the Prince’s Trust.’

GMB played footage of the meeting between Kate and Charles, with Kate pointing out: ‘We’re relatively close there, as indeed were all the other people that were involved in that.

‘I don’t have any symptoms, so I’m not blaming him for anything at all, but people are going to be concerned. He’s a man that meets a lot of people.’

Prince Charles is working at his desk ‘as usual’ it was reported Thursday, despite having coronavirus as his aides try to trace anyone who met him over the past fortnight to warn them they may have been exposed.

Concerns: The GMB presenter spoke about her meeting live on air, revealing that the pair had got 'relatively close' at the Prince's Trust Awards on March 11

Concerns: The GMB presenter spoke about her meeting live on air, revealing that the pair had got ‘relatively close’ at the Prince’s Trust Awards on March 11

The Prince of Wales has a ‘mild’ form of the illness and is on the Balmoral estate with his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, who has tested negative and is without any symptoms of the virus, which has killed 465 and infected 9,500 more in the UK so far.

Charles’ doctor believes that the royal may have been contagious from March 13 at the earliest – just 24 hours after he last saw his 93-year-old mother the Queen, who is in self-isolation at Windsor Castle with Prince Philip, 98.

His team have been informing anyone who met or came close to him while he was contagious – and those people are expected to go into self-isolation if they haven’t already, according to the Telegraph.

It came as NHS Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Catherine Calderwood defended the decision to test the royal couple, saying there were ‘very good reasons’ but she couldn’t disclose them because of patient confidentiality.

But Clarence House refused to comment on the Prince of Wales’ health after Dr Calderwood appeared to hint Charles and Camilla might have underlying medical conditions that made a coronavirus test necessary.

Charles and Camilla are said to be ‘upbeat’ despite being watched carefully by the Royal household medical team at their Aberdeenshire home, Birkhall, where they will remain in self-isolation for at least another two weeks. 

Clarence House has declined to give an update on the Prince of Wales’ health status after announcing on Wednesday he had tested positive for coronavirus.

But a spokesman said the heir to the throne, who is at his Scottish home Birkhall, was working at his desk as usual. He added Charles had received hundreds of ‘get well soon’ wishes sent to Clarence House – a mixture of cards but mostly digital messages.

Prince Albert, Boris Johnson and the Queen: Who Prince Charles has met over the past 16 days and where

Prince Charles has carried out a number of engagements over the past fortnight at which he has had contact with possibly hundreds of people.

Here are his movements around London over the last two weeks:

  • March 9 – Westminster Abbey: Charles and Camilla join members of the Royal Family including the Queen, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and other dignitaries including Boris Johnson at the annual Commonwealth Service
  • March 9 – Marlborough House, London: Charles and Camilla are guests of Commonwealth secretary-general Baroness Scotland at an event to mark Commonwealth Day at the Commonwealth Secretariat.
  • March 10 – Kings Place: Charles sits opposite Prince Albert of Monaco, who later tests positive for coronavirus, at a WaterAid charity event
  • March 11 – London Palladium: Charles, the president of the Prince’s Trust, meets award winners and the charity’s supporters including Ant and Dec at the annual Prince’s Trust Awards
  • March 12: Buckingham Palace – Investitures include making Baroness Benjamin a Dame. Charles also meets the Queen in the morning.
  • March 12 – Mansion House: Meets London Lord Mayor William Russell and the High Commissioner for Australia George Brandis at a dinner in aid of the Australian bushfire relief and recovery effort
  • Since March 12 – Charles has a number of private meetings with Highgrove and Duchy individuals, all of whom have now been informed. He flew to Balmoral on March 22.