LONDON — First came the royal engagement. Now10 days later — the first book. “William and Kate: A Royal Love Story,” by The Sun newspaper’s royal reporter, James Clench, was published Friday in Britain, the first in a slew of new titles about the relationship between Prince William and Kate Middleton that publishers hope will set cash registers chirping in the months before their April 29 wedding at Westminster Abbey.
Published by Harper Collins and The Sun — both owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. — the book is scattered with photos by Arthur Edwards, the paper’s long-serving royal photographer.
It is due to be published in the U.S. on Dec. 17. It charts the romance between “the boy who would one day be king” and “the middle-class girl who had harbored a crush on him since her school days.” It claims that William’s nickname for Kate was Babykins, while she called him Big Willie. The Associated Press
