Italy’s Chi magazine pushed ahead with its plan to publish a series of topless photos of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge on Monday, complete with a curt dismissal of the protests raised by the royal family.
Lawyers representing the royal family will be in court in Paris on Mondayseeking damages from Closer magazine’s publisher, Mondadori, and an injunction against further publication of the photos. But no decision has been made on separate legal proceedings in Italy.
Mondadori, which is controlled by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, also owns Chi magazine.
The Chi cover, featuring three pictures of a topless princess, was unveiled Saturday in Italian newspapers and television under the headline ‘Court Scandal: The Queen is Nude!’
The defiant editor of Chi has Tweeted that “not even a direct call from the Queen” would stop him from publishing the pictures.
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AJ-DXB / September 17, 2012
Doesn’t this news fall under freedom of expression, which the Americans boast about their first ammendment.
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Navin Weeraratne / September 18, 2012
AJ-DXB, no, this is simply perverted behavior.
Please also understand that the British are not American.
Please further note how the British public are not burning down French or Italian embassies in retaliation.
It is scary how difficult the likes of you find differentiating between acts of violence, acts of perverseness, and freedom of expression. It almost seems as if you want to intentionally confuse the matter, in order to feed your craving for stringent laws that force society to live as robots.
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Justice / September 18, 2012
Kate is a fool for airing her boobs within half a mile of a public road in full range of the telephoto lens of the french papparazzi – forgetting what they did to Diana.
This ia national trait – visit beaches in southern england in summer, and one can see hundreds of boobs.
But publishing such photos to sell more tabloids is in very bad taste.
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Olympian. / September 18, 2012
In the past had there been an incident in which the photographer was killed by the mafia and the body was discovered in Galle face for posting the picture of a tennis playing wifey of an Ex President. Democracy EH!!
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