The Royal family's everyday activities isn't actually reported in the national news. Exceptional stuff like babies or scandals are, but they're exceptional. Reg

The Royal family's everyday activities isn't actually reported in the national news. Exceptional stuff like babies or scandals are, but they're exceptional. Regional news will broadcast the royals if they visit the region, but again that's exceptional rather than the norm. News is, by it's very definition, new and noteworthy information. And given the short attention span of the modern generation, it's all the more relevant that the news stays new and noteworthy rather than old and repetitive. So in many ways, "news" does equal "novelty value".