I'm not a Day Dress person who wears hats; much more a smart Trouser Suit person, yet I've not noticed a single woman in recent royal pictures sporting pants.
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In the Guardian, writer Imogen Russell Williams dives into the royal baby picture book boom.
The Daily Mail treated it like the story it had been waiting to publish for years, giving its readers a whopping 14-page royal extravaganza of pictures, comment and speculation.
MADRID — The Web site of the Spanish royal family features pictures of the king, Juan Carlos I, in a blue sash, his bejeweled wife, Queen Sofía, and the couple's three glamorous children.
In carefully staged snapshots released to the press (taking advantage of new printing and image-making technologies), the royal ménage was pictured on vacation at the seashore, both parents fully engaged in family life.
But while some papers fawn over the royals, and others picture Chelsea pensioners enjoying the riot of colour in the rose displays, the Guardian finds a less likely star of the show - the humble potato.
There's "The Royal Nappy," a goofy history of poop and the royal family (Nicholas Allen's picture books appear to all be about bums, pants and knickers); "The Royal Baby," a speculative look at what the baby may be like, that concludes that all babies are unique and we'll just have to wait (a way to get around the fact that the future monarch is not quite born yet); "Shh!
The quality varies too: there are superbly illuminated volumes with gilded letters, from royal workshops in Constantinople (pictured), and much humbler texts, bound with crude boards and stained from centuries of use.
