Charlotte of Cambridge, cover star

The christening of the newest member of the House of Windsor was always going to make headlines but the fact that Princess Charlotte of Cambridge has made so many UK front pages is a bit of a surprise. With Greece voting no to austerity measures, taking it to closer to an exit from the eurozone, there was a huge story with massive ramifications and a human angle to get on to the front page first. Greece does dominate but there were still several papers that found space for an image of the royal christening but it was the Daily Express which chose to cover its whole front page with the story.

On the day after George's christening, many of the UK papers put images of the event right across their front pages but the spare was always going to be slightly different even before the biggest issue to hit the eurozone in years happened on the same day as her christening. Charlotte still managed to get most of the space on the front of the Daily Mail as well.

The Daily Telegraph, always partial to a royal story, puts Kate with Charlotte in her pram on its front page using the image of the moment George tried to take a peek of his little sister as its main image. But with politics taking a dramatic turn as the paper went to print, it is very much a secondary story.

The same photo of Charlotte in the arms of her mother as they prepared to head into the Church of St Mary Magdalene at Sandringham for the christening makes it on to two other papers. The Scotsman gives it more prominence.

While a series of other stories around it on the front page of the Belfast Telegraph relegates it to an 'and finally' position.

The Mirror is the only paper to go with a group shot of the royals on its front page with one of the summery photos that showed the baby pink worn by the Queen for her baby granddaughter.

The little insets of Kate and of George allow it to tell the whole story of the day on its front page but Charlotte is still playing second fiddle to another story. But then that's the role of the spare. But the fact her christening co-incided with a major moment in modern European history means that the pretty pictures of a picture perfect day were always going to have to share the limelight.