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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of Princess Astrid's death was remarkably uniform across all four outlets, producing a bias spread of precisely 0.0 points. Every headline treated the story as a straightforward death announcement, with shared neutral language centered on factual details: her age ("aged 94"), her relationship to the late king ("sister," "brother"), and the timing of her death relative to his funeral ("two days after," "just days after"). No outlet employed emotionally charged language, ideological framing, or partisan emphasis. The minor differences that do exist are purely stylistic: Reuters used a more formal wire-service construction with comma-set asides ("dies, aged 94"), the Independent foregrounded the relational description ("Sister of Norway's King Harald") rather than her name, and Sky News named both siblings explicitly. These are presentational choices rather than framing divergences, and they carry no discernible bias in any direction.