The reign, the gown and other things

Here at the media center, I'm sitting next to Sonia Delesalle-Stolper, the U.K. correspondent for Liberation, a center-left daily French newspaper -- and definitely not royalist. "But still we're doing quite a lot on it, although we're obviously writing more serious stuff: is the monarchy still relevant, for example.

"In some ways, though, it's kind of boring."

As a Frenchwoman, she gave the Duchess of Cambridge's dress an "A-plus-plus. Very simple, tasteful, very romantic. Not at all a big creamy, horrible over the top thing."