Paper Monitor
09:40 UK time, Friday, 22 January 2010
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It's what photographers call the money shot.
They might have taken hundreds of snaps that day but they know as soon as the shutter closes that THIS one will be the one that makes the papers.
Sometimes a politician, in real life and in fiction, stands in front of an advert and accidentally obscures all the words except, for example, "bent". Or is positioned in such a way that it looks like he or she has antennae.
Well, this week Prince William provided photographers with another such moment, although without looking in any way ridiculous.
He was attending an Australia Day reception at Government House in Melbourne on the third day of his tour of the country.
He sat down in a chair, yards away from an empty throne.
You can imagine all the photographers present saying to themselves: "Look jealously at it, look at it!"
He didn't quite do that (although some papers publish a shot in which he appears to), but as this picture shows, he did look AWAY from it, which is the next best thing.
And how did the sub-editors caption the photograph?
"THINKING OF TRYING IT FOR SIZE?" Daily Telegraph
"HEIR TO THE CHAIR - NO THRONE FOR WILLIAM JUST YET" Guardian
"A KING IN WAITING, BOWLED OVER BY KISSES AND CRICKET" Times
"THANK YOU FOR WAITING FOR THE THRONE... YOU ARE CURRENTLY SECOND IN LINE" Sun
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