Newspaper headlines: 'Royal race row' and 'pressure' on PM over migrants
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"Scobie's pulped fiction" is the headline in the Sun, which reports on a "book bungle" which has seen a new royal expose pulled from shelves, external in the Netherlands.
The paper says a "highly defamatory statement" in Endgame by Omid Scobie mistakenly names the member of the Royal Family who allegedly made an offensive comment about the skin colour of Archie, the son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, before he was born.
But, the paper says, the claim in question ended up in the Dutch version of the book due to a mistranslation.
The Daily Mail condemns the book, external as a "parody of the truth" which is oozing with bile and "toxic nastiness".
Royal sources tell the Daily Express that the book's claims of a rift between King Charles and the Prince of Wales are just "mischief making", external.
The i reports immigration minister Robert Jenrick went "rogue", external in the House of Commons on Tuesday, with what it describes as a "dig at No 10 on migration".
He suggested he would have liked to bring forward tougher migration plans last year. The paper says Mr Jenrick is "frustrated" that his "demands" have not been listened to.
The Sun has an interview with the father of a nine-year-old Irish-Israeli girl, external, who has returned to her family after being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.
Tom Hand says his daughter, Emily, is so traumatised that she's "barely able to speak", saying she was "terrorised by terrorists in hell". The paper's headline is: "They stole her voice".
"Should they stay or should they go?" asks the Daily Mirror, external of the Parthenon Sculptures, after what the Times calls a "diplomatic standoff" between the UK and Greece, external.
The debate over whether the Elgin Marbles should be returned to Greece rumbles on in Wednesday's papers
The paper says ministers in Athens believe Rishi Sunak called off a meeting on Monday with his Greek counterpart with domestic political reasons in mind. But government sources suggest Mr Sunak was "infuriated" by the comments by Kyriakos Mitsotakis about wanting the Elgin Marbles to be returned to his country.
According to the Guardian, the row raises fresh questions about Britain's "fraught relations", external with the European Union. One senior Brussels official tells the paper that "if you want to be a global Britain, you don't just stop talking with friends because of an issue that has been around for 200 years".
Several of the papers debate whether the sculptures should be returned to Greece. One columnist writes in the Times, external that they have been "wrenched out of their context" and "would acquire their proper power" if they were put on display in Athens.
Another in the Mirror says Britain has "a special claim to the statues",, external and that Lord Elgin had "done the world a favour" and "saved them from possible destruction" by buying them.
Rishi Sunak announces a series of pro-environmental policies, external in an article for the Daily Telegraph.
On top of his plans for a new national park, he sets out projects to restore woods, peat bogs, wetlands and rainforests, and says millions of pounds of new funding will go towards getting children "out into nature".
He writes that it is "deeply troubling" that so many young people "could lack any connection" to the natural world.
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