Monday, April 21, 2008

Papers rake over the end of a royal romance

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The ex-couple in February 2007
Alastair Grant/AP
Of the broadsheets, only the Telegraph and the Guardian believe that the break-up of two former university sweethearts whose relationship struggled in the outside world merits a mention on the front page, and then only briefly.

Things, however, are different in the tabloids.

With no official explanation of the whys, wheres and hows of it all from either Prince William or his former girlfriend Kate Middleton, there's no lack of theories.

As in the case of Faye Turney, one of the 15 sailors captured and released by Iran, the tabloid treatment of Ms Middleton varies between the Sun, which got the scoop, and the others, which didn't.

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