British tabloids scorned at Harry and Meghan: Show us your baby!

The following is inflamed: bookmakers with blackboards, updating ratings on names, intoxicating monarchists and, for a crowd of exasperated reporters, photograph a few inches of naked royal baby before l? child is taken to a palace.

The only thing that seems worse, it seems, is not being able to photograph the newborn at all.

Duke and Duchess of Susbad, known mor Last week, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that they were canceling the traditional photo shoot and that they would share their own pictures of the newborn, known in the trade as "Baby Susbad" after having "had an opportunity to celebrate privately as a new family. "

It did not please the press, which announced that this decision deviated from the tradition of more than 40 years.

The Sun, the most popular tabloid in Britain, scolded the couple for violating "our royal rights".

"Keeping the nation in the dark on the details, even after birth, is a bad look for the royal couple," said the paper's unsigned editorial on 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 interviews, journalists were more raw.

" It's the way Harry is right now, he just has this bee in his hat that all media should be ignored ", said Arthur Edwards, 78, a photographer for The Sun, who filmed the birth of five royal babies, including Harry, at Lindo Wing Hospital in St. Mary's.

"Harry was the best from among them, "said Edwards," We were meeting in a pub and we were talking about everything, take it off our plate.This would be frank and open, and you've never reported it. it's not even a hello, nothing, it's treating us like telegraph poles now. "

The new couple's decision to exclude the press from the birth of their baby is hardly a surprise to those who Last year, Harry and Meghan allowed only one journalist to visit their home. hapel for their wedding, which dealt a fatal blow to the publications that covered the saturation marriage.

This coldness towards photographers comes from Harry, who was 12 years old when his mother was killed in a car accident while his driver was trying to escape from motorcycle paparazzi.

The problem with the exclusion of the press – rewrite the rules of an old symbiotic relationship – is that the press has a way of getting its own back. According to tradition, the cover of the royal family oscillates between sycophant and brutal narrative stories and eager to discuss their laziness, debauchery, debauchery or low intelligence. And the ill-will of newspaper publishers, like the scorned fairy who was not invited to the princess's baptism in "The Sleeping Beauty", could hang around the family for years.

"This is the destruction of a tradition that goes back decades," said a veteran journalist, who will discuss the issue only under the guise of anonymity. "There is a price to pay for this, and this price is a mockery."

The Susbad blanket in recent weeks has not been sweet. Last week, a Daily Mail editorial confused Harry for teaming up with Oprah Winfrey for a television series about mental health.

"His half-boiling spirituality mark of the New Age, enriched with neoliberal policies and an inspiring hokum, plays well with a fridge. philosophical magnets like Harry and Meghan ", wrote the chronicler, Jan Moir, who then pbaded on to the couple 's pillory, on more serious tones, for refusing to show the baby to the photographers.

" Although. a new baby is deeply personal and a private event, a royal baby is also a national holiday totem, a beacon of British joy, "she wrote. "What is the interest of royalty if we can not celebrate their baby reign in a British orgy totally cursed bunting, corks and knitted boots? Two or three days later, it will never be the same again. "

Then she went into the killing. "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."

The press took on a transatlantic hue as Markle's supporters were pushed back to the US In February, five of the Duchess's friends defended against "global intimidation" in an interview with People Magazine, which would have surprised his royal masters, and then movie star George Clooney spoke in his defense, telling a group of journalists that she had been "prosecuted, defamed and prosecuted in the same way as Diana and her story was repeated."

Royal Journalists Valentine Low, who covers the family for the Times of London, described the allegations as " total fantasy "and stated that many Americans did not understand the back and forth of the royal blanket.

" The problem is that in some quarters, especially in the United States, any blanket negative is considered as a racist, "he wrote." Listening to certain American networks, it's like having the impression that the British media are racist, badist, snobbish and determined to meddle with any outsider who would have the Temerity to join the royal family. "

Edwards, photographer Sun, was sadder than angry.

"I photographed Harry when he got out in Diana's arms, and I'd like to have photographed him when he came out with his own baby," he said. . "It's a joyous occasion, with betting companies coming up with names on a board, that's a pretty big event."

He says that Harry has remained extremely popular with readers.

"I feel a little sad for him" he said. "Because he's getting morose."