According to British media reports, the couple hope that the publishers of Closer magazine, on the cover and pages of which provocative photographs were published, will compensate them for moral damages.
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This story happened a long time ago, but ordinary people still remember the luxurious, uncensored story that appeared on the front pages of several tabloids at once.
In 2012, French paparazzi photographed Kate and William relaxing by the pool with a long lens. Middleton was sunbathing topless that day. Photographers also captured how William affectionately coated his wife with sunscreen, and Catherine exposed him to various parts of her body, including her buttocks.
In total, more than 200 shots were taken, some of which photographed the potential future Queen of Great Britain. Reporters captured Middleton, covering herself with a towel, changing out of her swimsuit bottoms on the balcony of a private house.
The British Royal Court condemned the publication of private photographs of the Duchess obtained in this way. William and Catherine themselves called the situation “grotesque” and “beyond the limits of what is permissible.” The British Prime Minister's office also said that members of the royal family "have a right to privacy."
Several people involved in the dissemination of defamatory images will be put on trial in unison: the editor of Closer magazine in France, executive director Ernesto Mauri and the main culprits - photographers Cyril Moreau and Dominique Jacovides. All of these people are accused of invasion of privacy.
Immediately after the publication of these images, there was already one court that banned further distribution of the images. But this order was violated. The Duchess was shown topless on their pages in other European publications, in particular Italian, the Irish newspaper Daily Star and glossy celebrity magazines in Sweden and Denmark. A still naked Kate appeared in the La Provence newspaper, whose employees will also appear in court.
Immediately after the publication of the candid photos, the Duke and Duchess issued a statement in which they admitted that they were “saddened by the fact that their privacy was violated.” Moreover, they said that Catherine was literally seething with indignation. After all, until this moment, Middleton had never in her life found herself in such an awkward situation when her “uncomfortable” photographs could be seen by anyone anywhere in the world.
They said that the published photographs could seriously damage Kate Middleton's impeccable reputation. Others, however, suggested that provocative photographs would only increase Katherine’s popularity rating and give her a “spice.” And so it happened. The British adore their duchess, and she has crowds of fans all over the world.
0 14 September 2012, 16:06Scandal: Duchess Catherine topless
And again in the royal family, but this time not, but. Alas, there were paparazzi nearby, who sold the racy pictures (shared by blogger dindilin) to the media.
The incident occurred in France a week before the start of the royal couple, where Catherine and they were relaxing at a chateau in Provence, which belongs to their cousin, Viscount Linley. The couple sunbathed by the pool, swam and enjoyed each other's company, without... Apparently, Katherine was so relaxed that she decided to give in to the temptation of sunbathing topless. However, nosy paparazzi were sitting in the bushes, and pictures of the naked duchess, albeit not of very good quality, were not long in coming.
They were published by the French tabloid Closer: the British press refused to print compromising photographs, even the most popular and “yellow” publication The Sun, which a month ago did not hesitate to publish pictures of naked Harry.
They refused - and rightly so: the prince and Catherine are shocked and furious (“this is some kind of unacceptable farce”), and are going to sue the magazine for gross interference in privacy. Particularly offensive for the royal couple is the fact that troubles again came from France, because it was here that she died (remember, Lady Di and her companion got into a car accident in Paris when they tried to break away from the photographers pursuing them).
The Duchess and William learned about the incident at breakfast today, where they are on an official visit. And, as the statement says, they were deeply saddened:
Their Royal Highnesses expected respect for their privacy when on holiday. It is unthinkable and unacceptable to take such pictures, let alone publish them.
This incident is reminiscent of the worst episodes when Princess Diana was stalked by paparazzi, and is making the Prince and Duchess more and more worried.
It seems that the royal court's patience has run out, so a trial is not far off:
This cannot go on any longer. They crossed the line.
Catherine and William have every chance of winning this case, experts say. In the UK, publishing such photographs is generally illegal, since photographing people without their permission and on their own territory is prohibited, but in France they won’t pat you on the head for doing this. So, last week the French woman won a lawsuit against a magazine that published photos of her in a bikini. In addition, this case is very delicate:
French judges also take into account the behavior of a person who is caught by surprise. Katherine absolutely looks like a victim, as it is clear that she had no idea about the presence of the paparazzi.
By the way, this is not the first time that the paparazzi have shown disrespect for the personal life of the royal couple. So, just recently, William and Catherine were leaked to the press. Those photographs show Catherine in a swimsuit, and there is nothing criminal in them, but even then the court condemned the publication, and the couple expressed their dissatisfaction. Now the situation is out of control.
Well, we will monitor the developments.
Paparazzi have followed Duchess Catherine and Prince William before
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On the pages of one of the French magazines, nee Kate Middleton appeared. A photographer waylaid a young lady while she was sunbathing on the terrace of a house in Provence. Kate and William spent their holidays there. The publication of the photographs in the UK has already been called a return to the 90s, when the paparazzi were chasing Princess Diana. NTV correspondent Anton Volsky reporting from London.
Buckingham Palace is furiously accusing French journalists of overstepping the bounds of professional ethics. The French magazine that published the photographs captioned them: “The future queen is like you've never seen her before.”
However, the photo did not turn out to be of very good quality. A woman who looks like Kate Middleton and a man who looks like Prince William can be guessed. These people are not doing anything reprehensible. In one photo, Kate takes off the top of her swimsuit; in another, she smears cream on her husband's back. This cannot be compared with those scandalous photographs that spread around the world after a drunken party in Las Vegas with the participation of Prince Harry.
Another thing angered Buckingham Palace. The photos appear to have been taken in early September while the Prince and Kate were vacationing in the south of France at a villa owned by Prince William's father's cousin, Prince Charles' brother, on private property. Buckingham Palace called this an interference in the private lives of members of the royal family. However, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, who published the photographs, says: what is a scandal for England is a normal thing for France.
Lauren Pie, Closer Magazine: “Don't dramatize these photos. The reaction to them is a little disproportionate. What can the reader see on the cover of our magazine? A young couple, they are in love, they are beautiful. She is a princess of the 21st century. She goes out onto the balcony of the mansion topless, just as thousands of girls from all over the world appear on the beaches of southern France. It can be seen from the highway passing very nearby, along which hundreds of cars drive. It can be seen even from the street. There's nothing terrible about these photos. I don’t know of a single tabloid in the world that wouldn’t publish them if they got their hands on these materials.”
There is clearly a difference in worldviews, since, according to some sources, the authors of the photographs first tried to publish them in Great Britain. But not a single newspaper or magazine agreed to this. The fact is that for 15 years now, British journalists have had an unspoken rule prohibiting them from interfering in the private lives of members of the royal family. This rule was introduced after the death of Princess Diana, for which the paparazzi who followed the Mercedes with the princess were partly to blame.
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"Oh my God! Photos that will fly around the world... the future Queen of England, as you have never seen her before... and will never see her again,” reads the loud headline on the cover of an as yet unpublished issue of the magazine published on the website
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The possible publication of the French magazine has already been reported to William and Kate, who are on their ten-day tour of the Far East, who in turn issued an official statement in which they noted that they were “saddened by the fact that their private
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French magazine editor Laurence Pugh says the exclusive issue will see the light of day, sneering that Prince Harry, whose naked photos have caused a stir, will feel "less lonely" when Closer publishes pictures of his daughter-in-law
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The British royal family is apparently facing another scandal related to the publication of explicit photographs. French magazine Closer has announced its new issue, which it claims will feature exclusive topless photographs of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, reports the BBC.
"Oh my God! Photos that will fly around the world... the future Queen of England, as you have never seen her before... and will never see her again,” reads the loud headline on the cover of an as yet unpublished issue of the magazine published on the website. The statement is illustrated by blurry, low-quality frames, according to apparently taken from a great distance and subsequently greatly enlarged. In the photo, however, the famous married couple is visible. In the issue itself, as Closer promises, readers will find 12 more exclusive photographs on two spreads.
Scandalous photos of a young woman sunbathing by the pool were taken during a short vacation of Prince William and his wife at the French castle of the Queen's nephew Lord Lineley in Provence. It is clarified that the British media initially offered to buy them, but they refused the dubious deal.
The possible publication of the French magazine has already been reported to William and Kate, who are on their ten-day tour of the Far East, who in turn issued an official statement in which they noted that they were “saddened by the fact that their privacy was being violated.”
Meanwhile, advisers to the royal family have already recognized the authenticity of the racy photographs and are now negotiating with lawyers and actively discussing all possible options for the development of events. “It is possible that the British royal court will try to impose an international ban on their distribution,” a source at St. James’s Palace, the London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, told ITAR-TASS. However, it is also possible that Buckingham Palace will allow the publication to be published, leaving it to the public, representatives of the royal family emphasized.
“This is all very sad and takes us back 15 years (when Princess Diana died). We have always taken the position that the Duke and Duchess have the right to privacy, especially when they are on holiday in their own swimming pool,” the royal summed up representative.
Meanwhile, French magazine editor Laurence Pugh confidently claims that the exclusive issue will still see the light of day, while ironizing that Prince Harry, whose “naked” photos from a Las Vegas holiday caused a stir earlier this month, will feel “not so lonely" when Closer published pictures of his sister-in-law.
They were taken five years ago, when the couple was vacationing in a private villa in French Provence. Paparazzi used a long lens to capture the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless on the terrace of a chateau owned by the Earl of Snowdon, nephew of . After the photos were published by Closer magazine - accompanied by an article entitled "Oh my God!" - and local newspaper La Provence, Prince William and Kate Middleton sued both publications, accusing them of invading their privacy . The scandal was so loud that even the then-not-president of the United States considered it necessary to comment on it. “Kate Middleton is gorgeous - but she shouldn't sunbathe naked. And who will refuse to take her picture and make a lot of money from it if she sunbathes without clothes,” he wrote on Twitter.
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Wikimedia CommonsIt must be said that members of the British royal family have a long-standing dislike of the French paparazzi.
In 1992, they rented the then wife of Prince Andrew (brother of Prince Charles) in another private villa in the south of France. Also topless, and even in the company of her financial advisor John Bryan. A year after the photos were published, the French magazine Paris Match paid the duchess and her companion £84,000 for printing the photo without their permission.
The photos, which were of a completely intimate nature, led to a divorce from the prince - the Duchess of York Sarah Fergusson found herself an outcast in the royal family for a long time, although she now maintains an excellent relationship with her ex-husband, and the queen trusts her with organizing events.
In 1994, the paparazzi captured him wearing only a towel, draped over his shoulders: he was photographed in the window of a private villa in Avignon, the photo was published by the German magazine Bild. And in 1997, persecution by the paparazzi led, as is commonly believed, to the death of Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Al-Fayed. That led Prince William to say in a 2012 court filing about Kate Middleton's photo that paparazzi behavior was "increasingly painful" given the role they played in the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
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Amy Harris/Invision/APThe paparazzi are hunting not only for naked members of the royal family, but also for Hollywood actresses and models. So, in 2016, the star of the Victoria's Secret show, a Portuguese model, while relaxing on a yacht in St. Tropez, was also photographed topless - her photo was published by the Daily Mail. The 25-year-old model did not sue, but published an indignant post on her page on Facebook to the photographers. “I had no idea that somewhere far away there was someone with these huge television cameras and was filming me,” she wrote. The model also addressed the publications that published the photographs: “What kind of society is this, in where people are paid to spy on others, take pictures of them and invade their privacy. As a young girl, I feel like I have been abused."
There have been lawsuits over half-naked photographs in real life. The Friends star was photographed sunbathing topless in 1999. Spicy shoots appeared in the American magazines Celebrity Skin, High Society and Celebrity Sleuth only in 2003. They were also published by several publications outside the United States, including the Italian magazine Eva Tremilla. The star appealed to the Los Angeles Superior Court. Photographer François Navarre was charged with invading the privacy of the actress and
ordered to pay compensation in the amount of $550 thousand - however, they ended up with an out-of-court settlement.
Jennifer Aniston
Stephen Hird/ReutersIt later turned out that the pictures did not belong to Navarre. Aniston, wearing only panties, in the backyard of a house in Malibu (at that moment the actress lived here with) was “caught” by another photographer. His name has not been disclosed. According to Aniston's press secretary, Stephen Huvane, Navarre apologized to the actress for transferring the photographs to an Italian agent, who, in turn, sold the photographs for publication in Italy.
In 2008, American actress Mischa Barton came under the gaze of the paparazzi. The girl was vacationing in Australia and sunbathing on the beach, exposing her breasts. True, the annoying photographer examined not only the actress’s bust. He managed to take footage that showed cellulite and other flaws in Barton’s figure. At events, Misha always appears in images that create the impression of an ideal body. Therefore, the suddenly revealed details of what was actually hidden under the actress’s dress instantly attracted the attention of the press.
Photos of naked breasts and cellulite deposits on the thighs appeared in leading publications.
Mischa Barton
@mischamazing/Instagram.comJamie Fawcett, who took the photos, was accused of stalking the actress. The photographer himself claimed that he went to Hamilton Island and filmed from his hotel room. According to him, Barton was in the public eye, and the camera lens cannot be considered a technical violation. Jamie Fawcett also added that he "had" to take photographs.
The incident did not go to trial. However, Barton ran into Fawcett at Hamilton airport (they were registered for the same flight) and told the photographer everything she thought.
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