London: A French Closer magazine has published topless photos of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, taken when the couple were on holiday last week at the French chateau of the Queen’s nephew, Lord Linley.
The photos are blurry and taken with a long lens but are clearly of the royal couple, who are now touring Asia, the BBC’s Paris bureau says.
There are four pages of pictures of William and Kate, with the duchess topless in several of them.
They were told about the magazine’s plan to publish the photos during breakfast in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
It has emerged that British newspapers were offered photographs last week but turned them down.
Officials said the couple were “saddened and disappointed” about what they considered to be a breach of their privacy.
The royal couple continued with their nine-day tour, which is part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, on Friday by visiting a mosque in Kuala Lumpur.
However, the Sun was the only British newspaper to defy the wishes of St James’s Palace and print them after the palace had warned that the photos breached Harry’s privacy.
The tabloid printed two photographs, believed to have been taken on a camera phone, of the prince with a naked woman. It argued that its action were in the public interest.
The Press Complaints Commission said it received hundreds of complaints from members of the public but did not act because it had not been contacted by representatives of the prince.
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