Have you seen?: Middleton photographed in a bikini

Following release of Middleton’s pictures, Australian weekly Woman’s Day, announced it will also publish the...

The royal family is protesting yet again against Italian magazine Chi which has published the pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge wearing a bikini, baring her baby bump on a public beach in the Caribbean island of Mustique. Last year, Kate Middleton’s topless photographs were taken while she was relaxing on a sun lounger and were published in French magazine Closer.

Following the release of Middleton’s pictures, Australian weekly Woman’s Day, announced that it will also publish the pictures. “It wasn’t a hard decision to run these photos. She is on a public beach and she was mingling with holidaymakers,” said the editor of Woman’s Day, Fiona Connolly, reports the Guardian. “There are other holidaymakers in the photos as well. It’s a very different situation to the nude photos, there is no photographer hiding in the bushes and she is not inside a private villa.”

A St James’s Palace spokesperson was quoted expressing the royal family’s anguish, saying, “We are disappointed that photographs of the duke and duchess on a private holiday look likely to be published overseas. This is a clear breach of the couple’s right to privacy.”

Published in The Express Tribune, February 14^th, 2013.            

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