Britain’s royals embarked on a legal battle Monday to try to stop the spread of topless photos of Prince William’s wife Catherine, as an Italian magazine splashed the pictures across a special 38-page edition.
“The queen is nude!” read the front-page headline of Chi magazine which reproduced the photos first published last week by the French publication Closer. Like Chi, Closer is owned by Italian former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
It is Closer that William and his wife are targeting at a court in Paris where they were due on Monday to seek an injunction to stop the magazine re-selling the images. The couple are also lodging a criminal complaint with French prosecutors seeking damages from the the magazine and the photographer who took the photos with a powerful telephoto lens as the couple holidayed in southern France. Lawyers for the couple argue that publishing the photos of Catherine sunbathing semi-naked, and William rubbing suncream on her, breached their privacy.
[PTI reports that the Irish daily that carried topless pictures of Catherine could be shut down for its controversial decision to publish the “indecent” snaps.] — AFP