Norm of the upper triangular part of symmetric matrix
No. The best constant is $C_n\sim \ln n$. See, for example, this paper. In particular, for the lower bound, see example 3.3 of the paper.
The $\log n$ result mentioned by Christian Remling is a special case of the results in
Kwapień, S.; Pełczyński, A. The main triangle projection in matrix spaces and its applications. Studia Math. 34 1970 43–68.