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Photos of Kate Middleton Topless Published
Irish Daily Star Publishes Photos of Kate Middleton Topless
Saturday, 15 September 2012, Telegrap UK The Irish Daily Star has published photos of Kate Middleton topless. http://img.rasset.ie/000664c8-314.jpg Kate Middleton was photographed topless while on holiday in France http://img.rasset.ie/000664e4-174.jpg The photos of the duchess were taken while she was on holiday at a private villa in the south of France last week with her husband, Britain's Prince William. The photos have already been published in France. The decision to publish the photos has been condemned by a spokesperson for the British royal family as “motivated by greed”. Irish Daily star editor Michael O' Kane has defended their publication. "I did this as a service to our readers, I'm a little taken aback by the reaction in the UK," Mr O'Kane told the BBC. "It only seems to be an issue in the UK because she is your future queen. But from our point of view in Ireland, Kate Middleton is just another of the fantastic line of celebrities." However, the owners of the newspaper have described the publication as a "grotesque invasion" of privacy. Mimi Turner, Northern and Shell's communications director, said: "We abhor the decision of the Irish Daily Star to publish these intrusive pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, which we, like St James's Palace, believe to be a grotesque invasion of their privacy." She added: "The Irish Daily Star is a joint venture with Independent News and Media over which we have no editorial control. "We were not given advance notice of the decision to publish these pictures by their management and we are consulting with our lawyers as a matter of urgency over what we believe to be a serious breach of their contract. "Northern and Shell is profoundly dismayed at the decision made by Irish Daily Star, which would never have been made by any of the newspapers or magazines under our editorial control. "We consider all aspects of privacy very carefully, and would never condone this action." Continued..... |
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French magazine faces legal action over topless Kate Middleton photos Updated: 16:12, Saturday, 15 September 2012 Britain's Prince William and his wife have launched legal action against French magazine Closer after it published topless pictures of her.
http://img.rasset.ie/00066447-174.jpg http://img.rasset.ie/000663d0-174.jpg Britain’s Prince William and his wife have launched legal action against French magazine Closer after it published topless pictures of her. The publication was compared by St James's Palace to the worst experiences of William’s mother Diana at the hands of the paparazzi. Closer's editor defended her decision to publish the pictures saying there was "nothing degrading" about them. Laurence Pieau said the photos show a young woman sunbathing topless, "like the millions of women you see on beaches." The publication reopens a debate over the privacy of Britain's royal family and the freedom of the press just weeks after a US website published grainy photos of William's younger brother Harry cavorting naked in a Las Vegas hotel room. "Harry started the fashion: these days the Windsors take their clothes off," the French magazine quipped in the photo spread, which it claimed as a world exclusive. The photos of Harry stained a positive image his family has carefully crafted as it worked to turn the page on Princess Diana's death in 1997 and a raft of scandals at the time including Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson photographed having her toes sucked by a US businessman as she sunbathed topless. The first royal source said the photos in Closer, taken at a private location and in breach of French privacy laws, had "turned the clock back 15 years". William and Kate were on a short break at the Chateau d'Autet near Aix-en-Provence in the Luberon region, whose picture-postcard villages, rolling lavender fields and vineyards have made it a favourite getaway spot for wealthy foreigners. At one point Kate, clearly recognisable in the slightly fuzzy images, stands up and partly peels down her bikini bottoms as William rubs sun lotion on her back. "The last time we saw Kate and William on a balcony it was for their wedding. But they had more clothes on," reads one photo caption. Another says: "People always say she doesn't need to dress up to look good. Well ... Kate is proving this." Closer also said Kate was spotted smoking a cigarette as the couple walked out of nearby Marseille airport where they arrived on a commercial flight. Continued.... |
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Topless Kate Middleton Photos Published in Ireland, Italy next
AP | Sep 15, 2012http://www.dreamteamdownloads1.com/d...AASUVORK5CYII= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/t...brella-jpg.jpg The Chi cover, featuring three pictures of a topless princess, was unveiled on Saturday in Italian newspapers and television under the headline "Court Scandal: The Queen is Nude!" ROME: The British royal family faced a multinational battle to contain the spread of topless photos of Princess William's wife Kate, as an Irish tabloid published them on Saturday and an Italian gossip magazine planned to do the same despite the threat of legal action. The royal couple's St James's Palace office condemned the moves as unjustifiable and evidence of pure greed, and said it was considering "all proportionate responses." The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge sued French magazine Closer on Friday after it ran the photos, taken while Kate and William were on vacation at a relative's private estate in southern France last month. The publication has been roundly condemned by British newspapers, which refrained from publishing them out of respect for the young couple's privacy, even though tabloids like the Sun run topless women every day on page 3 and ran pictures of Prince Harry naked in Las Vegas last month. The British media, wary about an ongoing media ethics inquiry triggered by revelations of illegal phone hackling and other intrusive newspaper behavior, has generally respected palace guidelines stressing that William and Kate should not be photographed when they are not in public. But across the Irish Sea, the Dublin-based Irish Daily Star ran a blurry reproduction of the pages from Closer over two inside pages Saturday. Editor Mike O'Kane told the BBC the photos weren't included in the edition distributed in Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. And the newspaper's website came up as "temporarily unavailable" Saturday. O'Kane defended his newspaper, saying that Ireland did not view the royal family the same way as the British. "She's not our future queen," he told the BBC. "The duchess would be no different to any other celeb pics we would get in, for example Rihanna or Lady Gaga." Northern and Shell, the British company that co-owns the Irish Daily Star - and publishes its British sister tabloid, the Daily Star - said it was "profoundly dismayed" the Dublin newspaper had run the pictures. It said it had had no control over the decision. In Italy, gossip magazine Chi, which is owned by former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, said it planned to publish a 26-page spread with the photos on Monday, although it wasn't clear if the content was any different from what Closer ran. Chi is part of Berlusconi's publishing empire Mondadori, which also owns Closer. The Chi cover, featuring three pictures of a topless princess, was unveiled on Saturday in Italian newspapers and television under the headline "Court Scandal: The Queen is Nude!" In an interview Saturday with Associated Press, Chi editor Alfonso Signorini said he didn't fear legal action since the photos were already in the public domain following Closer's publication. "Closer's position is different, they were the first ones to publish," he said. He defended the decision to publish them in Italy, saying the photos are tasteful and respect Kate's dignity. "I don't see anything morbid or damaging in them," he said. "Chi pays attention to respecting people's dignity. I don't think they hurt Kate's image." He added in a statement that the pictures actually were in line "with the modern concept of the monarchy." "It shows in its total naturalness the daily life of a young, famous, modern couple in love," he said. A spokeswoman at St. James's Palace said royal officials were reviewing "all proportionate responses" to Chi's planned publication. The spokeswoman, who spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with palace policy, said publication of the photos served no purpose "other than to cause further, entirely unjustifiable upset to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who were enjoying time alone together in the privacy of a relative's home." The blurry photos, called a "grotesque" abuse of privacy by royal officials after they were published Friday by Closer, show Kate - the Duchess of Cambridge - wearing only a skimpy bikini bottom and sunglasses. In one of the three on Chi's cover, she appears to be rubbing suntan lotion on William's shoulder. Palace officials compared the intrusion on the young couple's privacy to the tragic paparazzi pursuit of William's mother Princess Diana, which many believe was a contributing factor to her early death in a car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997. That two magazines in Berlusconi's media empire were responsible for the distribution of the images of a topless Kate is remarkable, given the former premier's own problems with paparazzi and his privacy. In 2009, he threatened legal action against the Spanish newspaper El Pais after it published photos of topless women and a naked man lounging at his Sardinian estate. Italian prosecutors seized the photos and placed the photographer under investigation for alleged violation of privacy. The photos came to light at the start of Berlusconi's downfall: They were published amid a scandal involving Berlusconi and a Naples model, whose 18th birthday party the then-premier attended. Berlusconi, who was forced from office in November after financial markets lost faith in his ability to steer Italy out of its debt crisis, is currently on trial in Milan on charges he paid for sex with an underage Moroccan girl and then used his office to try to cover it up. He denies wrongdoing, and both he and the girl say they didn't have sex. END I think this is disgraceful, the muck papers destroyed Princess Diana and drove her to her death. Now they have started on Kate. However I think it was very silly of her to take such a chance by sunbathing topless. She may have learnt her lesson now, but what an embarrassing way to learnt it |
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