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Weekly continues tongue-in-cheek local press tradition after Harry engagement

It’s become a regional newspaper tradition for journalists to write headlines downplaying major events relevant to their patch, and today’s announcement that Prince Harry is to marry did not disappoint.

The Wokingham Paper ran on its website with ‘Former Wokingham schoolboy gets engaged’ to accompany its report of the royal’s engagement to Meghan Markle.

Prince Harry attended Ludgrove School – an independent preparatory boarding school in Wokingham Without for boys aged eight to 13 – before going on to study at Eton College.

It comes two months after the North Wales Daily Post covered his brother the Duke of Cambridge’s announcement that he and the Duchess of Cambridge were expecting again under the headline ‘Former Anglesey helicopter pilot expecting third child’.

Prince Harry

Prince William was a search and rescue pilot for 22 Squadron based at RAF Valley, in Anglesey, during the early years of the couple’s marriage.

Other examples of similar headlines in the regional press include ‘Tetbury man to wed’, which featured on the front page of the Bristol Post ahead of Prince Charles’s wedding to Camilla Parker-Bowles in 2005.

The Western Daily Press, which is also based in Bristol, paid homage to its sister title following David Cameron’s resignation as an MP last year, with is ‘Cotwolds MP retires from politics’ splash being widely shared on Twitter.

And in November 2016 the Buchan Observer won plaudits online for its story following the American election, which was run under the headline ‘Aberdeenshire business owner wins presidential election’.

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  • November 28, 2017 at 10:55 am
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    While the only headline on the front page of today’s Daily Telegraph reads more like something from the Farming Programme or the Archers on R4 “The corgis took to her straight away”

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  • November 28, 2017 at 12:02 pm
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    Park the car at the side of the road
    You should know
    Time’s tide will smother you
    And I will too
    When you laugh about people who feel so
    Very lonely
    Their only desire is to die
    Well, I’m afraid
    It doesn’t make me smile
    I wish I could laugh
    But that joke isn’t funny anymore
    It’s too close to home
    And it’s too near the bone
    It’s too close to home
    And it’s too near the bone
    More than you’ll ever know …

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  • November 28, 2017 at 1:08 pm
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    Yes, the sub-heading on the BBC news rolling news ticker last night saying ‘corgis have taken to Meaghan straight away’ (or words to that effect) was classic. Made me and the wife laugh in what was an otherwise straight-laced interview.

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