“She’s a real 21st century princess,” she added: “It’s a young woman who is topless, the same as you can see on any beach in France or around the world.”Ĭloser is published by Mondadori, an Italian company partly owned by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and chaired by his daughter Marina. What we see is a young couple, who just got married, who are very much in love, who are splendid,” Pieau told French BFM television. “There’s been an over-reaction to these photos. She said the magazine had more intimate shots from the same series that it opted not to publish. It is unthinkable that anyone should take such photographs, let alone publish them.”īritish Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokeswoman also said the royal couple should be entitled to their privacy.Ĭloser’s editor-in-chief Laurence Pieau described the photos as a “beautiful series” that showed a couple in love and were in no way degrading. “Their Royal Highnesses had every expectation of privacy in the remote house.
“Their Royal Highnesses have been hugely saddened to learn that a French publication and a photographer have invaded their privacy in such a grotesque and totally unjustifiable manner,” a spokesperson for St James’s Palace said. While Closer defended its decision to publish the photographs, a royal spokesperson said it had upset the royal couple, who are currently touring southeast Asia. The spread is a blow to Buckingham Palace as it tries to move on from a scandal over naked shots of Prince Harry that tarred an image bolstered by William and Kate’s wedding, the Queen’s 2012 Diamond Jubilee and her Olympic Games appearance. Under the headline “Oh my God!”, the photos show the couple, whose regal yet natural conduct since their April wedding has won them fans worldwide, soaking up the sun on the balcony of a 19th century hunting lodge, oblivious to lurking paparazzi. “St James’s Palace confirms that legal proceedings for breach of privacy have been commenced today in France by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge against the publishers of Closer Magazine France,” the couple’s office said in a statement.Ī court in Nanterre near Paris said the royal couple’s lawyer had filed a motion to expedite the procedure, and Closer’s publishers would be heard on Monday. PARIS/LONDON - Britain’s royal family began legal action against a French magazine on Friday for a “grotesque” breach of privacy after it published topless photographs of Prince William’s wife Kate Middleton.Ĭelebrity gossip magazine Closer published a dozen shots of the Duchess of Cambridge on holiday in southern France as she slipped off her bikini top, relaxed on a sun lounger and at one point pulled down the back of her bikini bottoms while William rubbed sun cream on her lower back.
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