MORE KATE TOPLESS PHOTOS SURFACE
On Monday, September 17, the glossy Italian magazine Chi published a
26-page special edition featuring 50 intimate photos of the Duchess of
Cambridge taken while she was recently on vacation with Prince William in
France, reported the Radar Online.
Chi reportedly has some 200 images of the future queen
sunbathing naked at the private estate in Provence last week.
The Chi cover, featuring three topless pictures of
Middleton was first unveiled Saturday in Italian newspapers and television
under the headline ‘Court Scandal: The Queen is Nude!’
Alfonso Signorini, the editor of Chi, tweeted that
“not even a direct call from the Queen” would stop him from publishing the
pictures.
Signorini, 48, posted the message online after being
asked about the decision to publish the photos by one of his followers on
Twitter.
“I am convinced by this scoop that Chi will be
publishing on Monday because that is what we are talking about,” he said.
“These pictures are not offensive or in poor taste, they are not morbid and
they do not damage the dignity of anyone.
“Instead the pictures that were published in Britain
of Prince Harry were exactly that — if I didn’t recognize the journalistic value
of what I had then if I did not publish them I would be better off in a market
selling artichokes.
“These pictures were taken while the couple were on a
terrace and they were taken from a public place so there is no suggestion of an
invasion of privacy.”
In his op-ed accompanying the topless photos,
Signorini further defended his decision to publish them, by writing: "For
the first time, the future Queen of England appears in a natural way, free from
all artificial elements required by her role. The Royal Family, instead of
getting angry with the media, that are simply exercising their right to inform,
should, in my humble opinion, take the opportunity and comment on this scoop
with the typical British humour, by saying 'So what?'".
Britain’s Press Association quoted Signorini as saying
the photographs represented “a deserving topic because it shows in a completely
natural way the daily life of a very famous, young and modern couple in love.”
The magazine is owned by former Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi’s Mondadori group, which also publishes Closer, a French magazine
that was the first to release topless photographs of Middleton last week.
The Royal Family is preparing to pursue legal action
in France later on Monday against the unidentified person who took the
photographs.
A spokesman for the couple said: “The complaint
concerns the taking of photographs of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge whilst
on holiday and the publication of those photographs in breach of their
privacy.”
The British royal family began legal proceedings
against Closer magazine last week, calling the photographs a “grotesque” abuse.
No British outlet has published the topless
photographs, respecting an informal agreement between the press and the royal
family at a time when the journalists’ behavior and practices are under intense
scrutiny after the phone hacking scandal focused on several tabloids owned by
Rupert Murdoch.
Meanwhile, Prince William and Kate arrived in the
Solomon Islands Sunday as part of the royal couple's tour of South Asia.
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