Nigeria Daily News: French court rules in favor of William, Kate

French court rules in favor of William, Kate
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Staff  on 18/09/2012 07:02:00


A French court on Tuesday ordered the publisher of a gossip magazine to hand
over all digital copies of topless photos of Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge and
wife of Prince William, and blocked the further publication of the images.
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Under the ruling, the magazine Closer cannot publish the images of an intimate
moment in the south of France any further, including on its website and tablet
application, The Associated Press reported. The magazine published 14 photos of
a partially clad Kate in its pages on Friday.
Separately, the court in Nanterre, near Paris, opened a criminal investigation
into both the magazine and the photographer.
The royal couple are currently on a tour of the South Pacific.
During their stop in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, William and
Kate appeared relaxed, easy-going, and warm during an informal conversation with
NBC News.
But if the royal family had hoped to block international publication of the
topless photos, it was too late.
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The photos show the former Kate Middleton slipping off her bikini top, relaxing
on a sun lounger and at one point pulling down the back of her bikini bottoms
while in the south of France.
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Buckingham Palace has called the photo spread a "grotesque" invasion of the
royal couple's privacy.  
     
 
 
 
 
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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.
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The Sun tabloid screamed: "Find Le Rat" on its front page on Tuesday and said
the photographer would be hunted down and faced 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.
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The photos have also been published in Italy, The AP said.
NBC News staff, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.