Prince William

[tammyy2j]

A French court has banned Closer magazine from any further publication or resale of topless pictures of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, who is the wife of Britain's Prince William.

An injunction, granted by the court on Tuesday, also ordered the magazine to hand over all files of the pictures in its possession to representatives of the royal couple within 24 hours and said it would be fined 10,000 euros ($13,000) for every day's delay.

The ruling prevents Closer, which published the pictures on Friday, from re-using them in print or on its website, as well as from selling them to markets where they have not been published.

Lawyers for the royal couple are seeking damages from the weekly gossip magazine over its publication of the photos in a five-page spread. The scandal has incensed much of the British public and rekindled a debate on privacy laws.

The court in Nanterre, near Paris, said it investigated whether there were grounds for criminal charges against Closer, published by Italy's Mondadori, and the paparazzi who snapped pictures of the Duchess from a distance while she sunbathed topless with William at a villa in southern France.

The couple has also launched a civil suit against Closer over the photos, which show the Duchess, who was formerly known as Kate Middleton, 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 royal couple's privacy.

British newspapers, fighting for their reputation after a string of scandals, have agreed not to publish the images, as has the British edition of Closer which is managed separately, and instead are condemning the photographer.

The Sun tabloid screamed: "Find Le Rat" on its front page on Tuesday and said the photographer would be hunted down and face jail.

On Monday, the publisher of tabloid The Irish Daily Star suspended its editor after the newspaper broke ranks with Irish and British peers, publishing pages from Closer with the photographs in its Saturday edition.

[Caspiant]

If Kate didn't want picture's of her self taken topless she should have kept her bikini on.She's only her self to blame.

[alan45]

If Kate didn't want picture's of her self taken topless she should have kept her bikini on.She's only her self to blame.

She was in PRIVATE property over 1000 yards from a road. Im sure she felt safe from the gutter press and their sleazeball photographers there. She is like any young woman of her age perfectly entitled to bare her breasts in private without the fear of the paparazzi. How would you feel if you or your sister or mother were photographed in their garden

[lizann]

Sick of hearing about Kate's little boobs completely being blown up between Harry and Kate who is next Philip

[Caspiant]

[QUOTE=alan45;781883 How would you feel if you or your sister or mother were photographed in their garden[/QUOTE]

There is absolutely no chance of either my mother or sister going topless in their garden,or anywhere else outside.

[alan45]

There is absolutely no chance of either my mother or sister going topless in their garden,or anywhere else outside.

Well if they ever decide to then they deserve to do it without some sleazeball photographing them

[alan45]

There is absolutely no chance of either my mother or sister going topless in their garden,or anywhere else outside.

Well if they ever decide to then they deserve to do it without some sleazeball photographing them

[tammyy2j]

They are having a royal baby - congrats to them

[parkerman]

Well they wouldn't have a pleb baby would they?

[Siobhan]

Well they wouldn't have a pleb baby would they?

Is there a difference between Royal baby and my babies??