Wearily,” writes Annamaria Mathieson, “I put pen to paper (electronically speaking, of course). Why, oh why, do we need another huge photograph of a ‘royal’ on the front page of this presumably non-tabloid newspaper — a young woman, mouth hanging open, because . . . why? Oh, I see, she is attending a gallery. There are so many things going on in the world, both good and not so good. Please give us news on the front page.”
Well hang on. Fair enough we have had the Prince of Wales afloat on the Somerset levels (which surely was news, of a sort), and his son looking surreally small next to a Chinese basketball player but, those aside, Wednesday’s picture of the Duchess of Cambridge was