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Only eight of London’s nine national circulation newspapers were jubilant over the engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. “So in love, veiled the tabloid Daily Mail;” “My Shy, Di, screamed the “Sun; For the finest royal coverage see pages, 2,3, 4,5, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,” said the “Daily Express,” modestly not mentioning additional coverage on the whole of Page 1. But the Communist “Morning Star” was not happy. Relegating the story to page 5 under the headline, B, ‘Don’t do it, Lady Diana,” it said: “Lady Diana Spencer is to sacrifice her independence to a domineering layabout for the sake of a few lousy foreign holidays . . . We will ... be treated to endless column inches about her purebred ancestry — which fits her perfectly for bearing royal sons , . . Perhaps we are carping, but surely even she deserves to be regarded with more dignity than a pedigree Friesian cow.”—London, '
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Press, 28 February 1981, Page 11
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