Queen in Wag Photos Storm ; (1) Royal Aides Blame Grandson Peter for Hello! Wedding Deal (2) but She Approved [Pounds]500,000 Spread in Celebrity Magazine (3) Royals Will Now Find It Hard to Ask for Privacy

Evening Standard - London › May 21, 2008

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THE Queen was in the middle of a bitter row today over the sale of photographs of her grandsons wedding to a magazine.

MPs and commentators reacted angrily after Hello! devoted 59 pages to the Windsor Castle wedding of Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly for which the couple, both 30, were paid [pounds]500,000.

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Queen in Wag Photos Storm ; (1) Royal Aides Blame Grandson Peter for Hello! Wedding Deal (2) but She Approved [Pounds]500,000 Spread in Celebrity Magazine (3) Royals Will Now Find It Hard to Ask for Privacy

Critics said it appeared to put the Queen, who is shown in more than a dozen pictures, in the same category as a Wag a footballers wife or girlfriend.

The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, Prince Harry, his girlfriend ...

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