U.K.'s Evening Standard to Print First Royal Wedding Pics

Paper will break tradition of not publishing on bank holidays

The U.K. Evening Standard newspaper will break its tradition of not publishing on bank holidays (it hasn’t done so in 50 years) in order to be the first paper to carry pictures of Kate Middleton and Prince William’s “balcony kiss” at the Royal Wedding on Friday, the Guardian reported.

It will be the first time that the paper has run two editions since January of last year when Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev took over and stopped the practice.

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