The First Editions: Controversy Reigns For The Royals
Written by Joanne Leyland
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
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If
you think your job is bad, then be thankful you're not a Palace spin
doctor whose daily role it is to document the royal stories featured in
the British press.
However, with Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the rack due
to the increasingly gloomy state of the economy, the media have been
surprisingly lenient when it comes to front page reporting of the
latest difficulties to befall the Windsors.
As you can see, the Daily Mail does give over part of its front page to the man of the moment: Prince William.
As
reported here earlier, no doubt aware of the outwardly negative PR attached to this story, the Ministry of Defence has
felt compelled to explain how the second and third-in-line
to the throne came to be afforded the opportunity to fly to Peter
Phillips' weekend stag party on the Isle of Wight in an RAF Chinook
helicopter (am I alone in thinking 'you couldn't make this up'?!).
No doubt readers will soon be having their say via the letters pages of
our daily newspapers, perhaps in the process highlighting what the Mail claims was a £10,000 royal flight to the all-too-frequent defence
budget cuts, some of which have seen service personnel sent to war
without the relevant equipment to protect them from danger as they serve Queen and Country.
due
to the increasingly gloomy state of the economy, the media have been
surprisingly lenient when it comes to front page reporting of the
latest difficulties to befall the Windsors.
