Britain ‘smitten’ as press goes gaga for royal baby princess

Britain’s Sunday newspapers reacted with joy to the arrival of a baby princess, filling their front pages with close-up pictures of the newest addition to the royal family. Many also ran souvenir pullouts filled with pictures of Prince William and his wife Kate proudly showing off their newborn daughter. The papers were filled with shots of the proud parents and the baby’s older brother, one-year-old Prince George, who made a rare public appearance. The Sun and its rival tabloid the Sunday Mirror also had carbon copy front pages, with the unusually (for them) lower-case headline “Sleeping cutie” and a full front-page picture of the snoozing princess’s face poking out from the baby car seat.

Wasn’t she worth the wait, Kate!

Headline for “The Mail” newspaper in Britain

The Sunday Times, in its editorial, said: “It is fashionable - indeed, it is difficult to resist the urge - to mock the circus that surrounds a modern royal birth,” citing the “eccentric monarchists” camped outside and the 24-hour news channels desperately filling the time. The birth is “a reminder of the things that really matter in life”, said The Sunday Telegraph. Offering its readers a pull-out poster of the princess cradled in her mother’s arms, the Sunday Express declared: “Bless her”.

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