Newspaper headlines: 'Royal race row' and 'pressure' on PM over migrants

Newspaper headlines: 'Royal race row' and 'pressure' on PM over migrants

A new book on rifts in the Royal Family continues to make headlines. Metro leads on the news that a Dutch translation of Endgame by Omid Scobie - which has since been withdrawn from sale - reportedly named a senior royal accused of racism by the Duchess of Sussex.

The Daily Mirror says thousands of copies are being "pulped" in the Netherlands after implicating a senior royal in the racism row. Its front page also features a plug for a piece on the Elgin Marbles, which are back in the news following a spat between Rishi Sunak and the Greek prime minister on Monday.

The Dutch translation of Endgame named a royal accused of asking about the skin colour of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's then unborn child, the Mail says. The name was printed "by mistake", it reports, and sales were put "on hold" at the 11th hour. The author Omid Scobie later suggested he had not put the name in any version of the book.

The Daily Express focuses on other claims in Endgame - quoting unnamed "royal sources" as saying reports of a rift between King Charles and Prince William are "mischief making", and describes their relationship "as strong as ever".

In other news, Robert Jenrick has gone "rogue" with a dig at No 10, according to the i. Its front page reports the immigration minister vented his frustrations in the Commons about the government's efforts to cut the number of people coming to UK. The paper judges his comments risked breaching collective responsibility.

Another migration story takes the main slot on the front page of the Times. It says Rishi Sunak is under pressure to scrap a system where visa rules are relaxed for certain professions facing shortages. It comes after new figures were released last week showing record levels of migration to the UK, which prompted disquiet among some Tory MPs.

A study by the British Medical Journal has found patients are being put at risk by phone and online appointments. The Telegraph says the practice is leading to missed diagnoses and delayed referrals. Its main cover image is of Meg Bellamy playing a young Princess of Wales in The Crown.

The Sun leads on an emotional interview with the father of Emily Hand, a nine-year-old who was released after 50 days as a Hamas hostage. Her Dublin-born father tells the paper she is barely able to speak after being ordered by her captors to stay silent while she was detained.

The Financial Times reports Barclays is said be looking to overhaul its investment wing in order to cut £1bn in costs. The main image is of Nikki Haley, who has been handed a big boost in her bid to challenge Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination by winning the backing of influential billionaire donor Charles Koch.

Naturalist Chris Packham has criticised ITV's I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here over its treatment of insects, says the Daily Star. The paper carries the story alongside an image of hosts And and Dec.

"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 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 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" .

The i reports immigration minister Robert Jenrick went "rogue" 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 , 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 of the Parthenon Sculptures, after what the Times calls a "diplomatic standoff" between the UK and Greece .

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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" 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 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", 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 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.