UK royal couple win French injunction on topless photos
A French court on Tuesday banned a gossip magazine from further publishing topless photographs of the wife of Britain’s Prince William, the former Kate Middleton.
A French court on Tuesday banned a gossip magazine from further publishing topless photographs of the wife of Britain’s Prince William, the former Kate Middleton, and ordered it to hand the pictures over to the royal couple.
The injunction granted to the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge, as the couple are formally known, also prevents France’s magazine from selling the pictures to other media.
The court in Nanterre, near Paris, earlier opened a criminal investigation into charges that the photographer who took the shots and breached the privacy of the prince and his wife.
will be fined 10,000 euros (US$13,100) per day of delay in handing over the images, the court said in the civil ruling. The couple are also seeking damages from the weekly over its publication of the photographs in a five-page spread on Friday.
The pictures were taken while the couple were on holiday in a chateau in southern France and show the duchess slipping off her bikini top, relaxing on a sun lounger and at one point pulling down the back of her bikini bottoms.
Buckingham Palace has called the photo spread a “grotesque” invasion of the couple’s privacy. The royal family want to make an example of .
