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LONDON: Among the various press rituals surrounding the British royal family, few are more ridiculous than the vigil in front of a London maternity ward, where journalists wait in the street for a woman who gives birth.
For journalists, it's an opportunity to photograph a few inches of royal baby exposed before the child is taken away. The only thing worse, it seems, is not being able to photograph the newborn.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said last week that they were canceling the photo opportunity and that they would instead share their own pictures of the newborn after "having the opportunity to celebrate privately as a new family ".
This was not very well received by the press, who said that this decision deviated from the tradition of more than 40 years. The Sun, the UK's biggest draw tabloid, accused the couple of undermining "our royal rights".
"Keeping the country in the dark on the details, even after birth, is a bad look for the royal couple," said the unsigned leader of the newspaper in April
12. "The public has the right to know the lives of those who are largely financed by their taxes. You can accept that or be private citizens. Not both.
In the interviews, the journalists were more raw. "That's the way Harry is at the moment, he just had this bee in his cap that all the media should be ignored," said Arthur Edwards, 78, a photographer for The Sun, who covered the birth of five babies. "This is the break of a tradition that goes back decades," said a veteran journalist, who would examine the issue only on condition of anonymity. "There is a price to pay for that, and this price is a mockery."
A Daily Mail editorialist, Jan Moir, last week persuaded Harry to team up with Oprah Winfrey for a television series on mental health. She then pilloried the couple for refusing to show the baby to the photographers. "A royal baby is … a beacon of British joy," she wrote. "What is the interest of royal families if we can not celebrate their royal babies."
She then went to kill. "Maybe Oprah got the exclusive right to first look at the rights of babies?" She inquires. "I would not let it pbad in front of her, or them."
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For journalists, it's an opportunity to photograph a few inches of royal baby exposed before the child is taken away. The only thing worse, it seems, is not being able to photograph the newborn.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said last week that they were canceling the photo opportunity and that they would instead share their own pictures of the newborn after "having the opportunity to celebrate privately as a new family ".
This was not very well received by the press, who said that this decision deviated from the tradition of more than 40 years. The Sun, the UK's biggest draw tabloid, accused the couple of undermining "our royal rights".
"Keeping the country in the dark on the details, even after birth, is a bad look for the royal couple," said the unsigned leader of the newspaper in April
12. "The public has the right to know the lives of those who are largely financed by their taxes. You can accept that or be private citizens. Not both.
In the interviews, the journalists were more raw. "That's the way Harry is at the moment, he just had this bee in his cap that all the media should be ignored," said Arthur Edwards, 78, a photographer for The Sun, who covered the birth of five babies. "This is the break of a tradition that goes back decades," said a veteran journalist, who would examine the issue only on condition of anonymity. "There is a price to pay for that, and this price is a mockery."
A Daily Mail editorialist, Jan Moir, last week persuaded Harry to team up with Oprah Winfrey for a television series on mental health. She then pilloried the couple for refusing to show the baby to the photographers. "A royal baby is … a beacon of British joy," she wrote. "What is the interest of royal families if we can not celebrate their royal babies."
She then went to kill. "Maybe Oprah got the exclusive right to first look at the rights of babies?" She inquires. "I would not let it pbad in front of her, or them."
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