Paper Monitor
10:55 UK time, Monday, 16 October 2006
Sticklers for tradition will welcome the return of a picture of Princess Diana on the front page of Monday鈥檚 Daily Express.
But these are changing times. Now Princess Di has to squeeze in beside other co-royals, in a trail for a piece headlined: Who鈥檚 the brainiest Royal?
Prompted by comments by Princess Michael of Kent about her gifted children, the Express analyses the educational pedigree of the royals 鈥 concluding that they are collectively 鈥渓acking in academic aptitude鈥.
The Sun also starts the week with some royal trimmings, reporting on the current state of play of Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy.
This article is a treasure trove of odd details. For starters, Harry has a poster of George W Bush on the wall 鈥渢o remind him of dizzy Chelsy鈥. The explanation for this is that Chelsy has a reputation for daft comments.
As an example, it鈥檚 claimed that she thought that woolly mammoths were still a living species. This intellectual prowess isn鈥檛 any barrier to her future plans, which the Sun says, is to take up a postgraduate place at the University of Bristol.
And under the Too Much Information category, what are we to make of the Daily Mail's report that at her birthday party, Harry and Chelsy 鈥渄isappeared into the disabled lavatory together for a few minutes鈥?
Maybe they need the calming, educational influence of the Guardian鈥檚 latest give-away. It鈥檚 an apples wallchart 鈥 not a poster 鈥 a wall chart. And tomorrow, the herbs.
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