Open door: royal wedding coverage

The readers’ editor on … a day of too much pomp and circumstance Complaints to the Guardian’s readers’ editor, and the paper’s letters’ page, about the royal wedding coverage convey a general sense that the Guardian has betrayed a long-standing history of republicanism. Not so. Certainly not the “long-standing” bit, anyway. Ian Mayes , the paper’s first readers’ editor, who is now writing a history of the Guardian, tells me that it was only 11 years ago that the Guardian came out for a republic: “The Guardian’s first real trawl through the issue was a week of features starting 7 January 1995 under the general heading, “The New Republic: an important Guardian series on what Britain would be like without a monarchy”. A leader to launch it said: “This paper has always been agnostic about the monarchy and remains so.”

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