The Duchess of Cambridge sunbathes topless. Celebrities who didn't protect their breasts from the paparazzi. Kate Middleton - candid photos

The prince first saw Kate in 2002 at a charity fashion show...

Catherine Elizabeth, Duchess of Cambridge, known to the general public as Kate Middleton, was born on January 9, 1982 in Reading, Berkshire, England. In 1987, her parents, Michael Francis and Carol Elizabeth Middleton formed a mail order business called Party Pieces.

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The specialization of their offspring was the sale of a variety of accessories for parties and holidays. It was thanks to this company that the Middletons subsequently became millionaires. and managed to give their three children a decent education in prestigious private schools. The Middleton family settled in their own house, located in Berkshire, in a village called Bucklebury.

Kate Middleton's fateful first meeting with her future husband, Prince William Arthur Philip Louis was due to their studies at the University of St. Andrews, located in the Scottish district of Fife. The girl entered this educational institution in 2001, at the same time as the 19-year-old prince decided to study art history at the same university.

Kate Middleton in a transparent dress

The prince first saw Kate in 2002 at a charity fashion show. in which she took part. After all, the parameters of the girl completely allowed her to make a career as a model, which is clearly seen when looking at the photo of Kate Middleton. And after some time, young people, along with their fellow students Olivia Blisdale and Fergus Boyd, rented an apartment in a house located on one of the main streets of the St. Andrews campus.

In 2004, Prince Arthur began to appear more often on vacation with Kate Middleton., thanks to which it was no longer a secret to anyone that young people were in love with each other. Arthur and Kate admitted that they are a couple, having gone to Switzerland to ski.

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The fact that the relationship between the lovers should soon bring them down the aisle was also indicated by the fact that Queen Elizabeth herself in December 2006 honored Kate Middleton with an invitation to a royal dinner in honor of Christmas. And, despite the polite refusal of the girl, who referred to the decision to spend this evening with her family, the queen's gesture made it clear to Kate that the royal family recognized the chosen one of the prince.

Already in March 2006, the girl appeared at the Cheltenham Racecourse in the royal box. And in October 2010, while on vacation with Kate in Kenya, Prince William proposed marriage to her. The girl agreed and on November 16, 2010, the British Royal Court officially announced the engagement of Prince William with his beloved Kate Middleton. The wedding was scheduled for April 29, 2011.

For the first time after their engagement was officially announced, the young people appeared together in public only in February 2011. They took part in the launching of lifeboats, which took place on the coast of Wales, in Anglesey. Not far from this place was just the part of William, in which he served as a rescue helicopter pilot.

Kate Middleton, who first appeared as the official bride of the prince, was in a very elegant sand-colored coat and a miniature Philip Tracy hat.

Kate Middleton - candid photos

The impudence of the paparazzi who hunt famous people goes beyond any limits. Sometimes this even leads to tragedies - take, for example, Lady "Dee", who crashed in a car trying to hide from prying eyes and lenses. In our case, there is no place for tragedy, but there is every reason for scandal.

It was five years ago when a significant storm raged. The case even went to court. The story has again become relevant in today's media because the grandson of the British Queen and his wife, who bear the title of the Dukes of Cambridge, decided on the amount they wished to take through the court for photographs in which Kate Middleton is depicted with bare breasts.

The ducal couple are demanding 1,500,000 euros from the defendants.

According to the British media, the famous couple hopes that the publishers of Closer magazine, on the cover and pages of which provocative pictures were printed, will compensate them for moral damage. And men all over the world still remember Kate's magnificent breasts, which, without any censorship, flaunted on the covers of several newspapers and magazines at once.

Paparazzi from France caught a couple relaxing by the pool with a telephoto lens from the highway. Kate was sunbathing without a bra that day.

The pictures were very candid, but representatives of Closer are sure that they in no way humiliate the dignity of the Duchess. They say that the photo shows a "beautiful, loving and modern" couple.
Yesterday morning, employees of the gloss appeared before the court of the city of Nanterre on charges of violating privacy rights.

Several people who were involved in the distribution of defamatory images were put on trial at once: Laurence Pio, editor of the French magazine Closer, Ernesto Mauri, the chief executive, and photographers Kirill Moreau and Dominique Jacovides, the main defendants. These people are accused of invasion of privacy.
Almost simultaneously with the publication of these photos, a court took place, which banned the subsequent use of the pictures. However, this ban was violated. Topless Keith featured on his pages a number of European publications, in particular the Italian magazine Chi, the Irish newspaper Daily Star and glossy magazines about stars in Sweden and Denmark. In addition, almost naked Middleton appeared in the newspaper La Provence, whose employees will also appear in court.

Gossip testified that Kate was seething with indignation. After all, before that, she had never hit as “chickens in cabbage soup”, when the whole world could see her “naked” photos.
It was also said that the published photos could hurt the duchess' impeccable reputation.

Others hoped that such pictures would only increase Kate's popularity ratings and give her "pepper".
And so it happened.
The British love their duchess very much, besides this, she has almost the whole world in her fans.
We sympathize with the people who fell under the scope of the paparazzi cameras. Just imagine what it's like to find out that your photos are procrastinating in a public space.

Text: Marta Krylova

The British royal family was once again at the epicenter of the “naked scandal”: after the pictures of the naked Prince Harry, who completely lost in strip billiards in Las Vegas, topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge Catherine appeared on the Web. Exclusive pictures of the half-naked Kate, who was captured by the paparazzi during a recent weekend in Provence, was published by the French magazine Closer. The Duke and Duchess decided not to leave this “media trick” unpunished and sued the publication.

According to a statement made by a spokesman for St. James's Palace, "privacy proceedings began on 14 September." The defendant is the editor-in-chief of Closer magazine.

“The Duke and Duchess spent their holidays in a secluded place in France (at the Chateau d "Autet, owned by the nephew of Queen Elizabeth II, Lord Linley, - approx. site). Naturally, they did not want anyone to take pictures of them. Take such pictures "and to publish them is immoral and illegal. This incident is reminiscent of the terrible time when the media fiercely pursued Princess Diana. Of course, all this is very upsetting for the Duke and Duchess," the representative of the couple said.

Closer Editor-in-Chief Lawrence Pio believes that by publishing these photos, "did not do anything immoral": "These pictures are not at all" "shocking", as the media have already dubbed them. They just show a young woman sunbathing topless. After all, millions of women do this! The photographs show a young couple who recently got married. They are young. They are beautiful. Kate is a 21st century princess."

Vivienne Parry, former administrator of the Princess Diana Memorial Fund, told The Daily Mirror that "Duke William is determined to sue Closer." “You see, William lost his mother (Diana died in a car accident in Paris, - approx .. He will do everything to protect Kate from this!” By the way, France has strict privacy laws. Violation of them can lead to a prison term .

Recall that earlier the Australian magazine Woman's Day published pictures from the duke and duchess' honeymoon, which they spent in the Seychelles; the American edition of The New Republic disfigured Katherine's teeth, and Marie Claire South Africa magazine placed a picture of the duchess on its cover without her consent. The patience of the royal family is over.

Now Kate and William, continuing their tour of Asia and Oceania, are in the Solomon Islands.

They were taken five years ago when the couple was vacationing in a private villa in Provence, France. The paparazzi used a telephoto lens to capture the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless on the terrace of a chateau owned by the Earl of Snowdon, nephew. After the photos were published by Closer magazine - accompanied by an article headlined "Oh my God!" - as well as local newspaper La Provence, Prince William and Kate Middleton sued both outlets for invading their privacy. . The scandal was so loud that even the then president of the United States considered it necessary to comment on it. "Kate Middleton is gorgeous - but she shouldn't be sunbathing naked. And who refuses to take a picture of her and make a lot of money on it if she sunbathes without clothes, ”he wrote on his Twitter.

Sarah Ferguson

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It must be said that the members of the British royal family have a long-standing dislike for the French paparazzi.

In 1992, at another private villa in the south of France, they rented, then the wife of Prince Andrew (brother of Prince Charles). Also topless, and even in the company with her financial adviser John Bryan. A year after the photos were published, French magazine Paris Match paid the Duchess and her companion £84,000 for printing the photo without their permission.

The photos, which were quite intimate, led to a divorce from the prince - the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson turned out to be an outcast in the royal family for a long time, although she now maintains an excellent relationship with her ex-husband, and the queen trusts her to organize events.

In 1994, the paparazzi got into the lens already in one towel draped over his shoulders: he was filmed in the window of a private villa in Avignon, the photo was published by the German magazine Bild. And in 1997, the persecution of the paparazzi led, as is commonly believed, to the death of Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Al-Fayed. This led Prince William to say in a 2012 court filing over a photo of Kate Middleton that the paparazzi's behavior was becoming "increasingly painful" given the role they played in the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

Sara Sampaio

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The paparazzi hunt not only for naked members of the royal family, but also for Hollywood actresses and models. So, in 2016, the star of the Victoria's Secret show, the Portuguese model, while relaxing on a yacht in St. Tropez, was also photographed topless - her photo was published by the Daily Mail. The 25-year-old model did not sue, but published an outraged post on her page "I had no idea that somewhere far away there was someone with these huge televisions and filmed me," she wrote. The model also turned to the publications that published the pictures: "What kind of society is where people are paid to spy on others, take pictures of them, and invade their privacy.As a young girl, I feel like I've been abused."

Litigation due to semi-nude photographs were in life. The Friends star was photographed sunbathing topless in 1999. Spicy shooting appeared in the American magazines Celebrity Skin, High Society and Celebrity Sleuth only in 2003. They were also published by some publications outside the United States, among which was the Italian magazine Eva Tremilla. The star appealed to the Los Angeles Supreme Court. Photographer François Navarre was shown an ad in the invasion of the privacy of the actress and

ordered to pay compensation of $ 550 thousand - however, they still managed with extrajudicial proceedings.

Jennifer Aniston

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Later it turned out that the pictures did not belong to Navarre. Aniston, in her panties in the backyard of a house in Malibu (at that moment the actress lived here from), was “caught” by another photographer. His name has not been released. According to Aniston's spokeswoman Steven Juvane, Navarre apologized to the actress for handing over the photos to an Italian agent, who in turn sold the pictures for publication in Italy.

In 2008, the American actress Mischa Barton came under the sight of the paparazzi. The girl was vacationing in Australia and sunbathing on the beach, baring her chest. True, the importunate photographer examined not only the bust of the actress. He managed to take shots that show cellulite and other flaws in Barton's figure. At events, Misha always appears in images that give the impression of a perfect body. Therefore, the suddenly revealed details about what is actually hidden under the dress of the actress instantly attracted the press.

Photos of bare breasts and cellulite deposits on the thighs appeared in leading publications.

Mischa Barton

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Jamie Fawcett, who took the pictures, was accused of stalking the actress. The photographer himself claimed to have traveled to Hamilton Island and filmed from his hotel room. According to him, Barton was in the public eye, and the camera lens cannot be considered a technical violation. Also, Jamie Fawcett added, he "should" have been photographing.

The incident did not go to trial. However, Barton ran into Fawcett at Hamilton Airport (they were registered for the same flight) and told the photographer everything she thought.

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Scandal: Duchess Katherine Topless

And again in the royal family, but this time not, but. Alas, there were paparazzi nearby, who sold the spicy pictures (they were shared by the blogger dindilin) to the media.

The incident took place in France a week before the start of the royal couple, where Catherine and rested in a chateau in Provence, which belongs to their great uncle, Viscount Linley. The couple sunbathed by the pool, swam and enjoyed each other's company, without. Apparently, Katherine was so relaxed that she decided to succumb to the temptation to sunbathe topless. However, nosy paparazzi sat in the bushes, and the pictures of the naked duchess, albeit not of very good quality, were not long in coming.

The French tabloid Closer published them: the British press refused to print compromising photos, even the most massive and "yellow" edition of The Sun, which a month ago did not hesitate to publish pictures of naked Harry.

They refused - and they did it right: the prince and Catherine are shocked and furious ("this is some kind of unacceptable farce"), and they are going to sue the magazine for gross interference with private life. Particularly offensive to the royal couple is the fact that the troubles again came from France, because it was here that she died (remember, Lady Di and her companion had a car accident in Paris when they tried to break away from the photographers chasing them).

The Duchess and William learned about the incident at breakfast today, where they are on an official visit. And, as the statement says, they were deeply saddened:

Their Royal Highnesses expected their privacy to be respected when they were on holiday. It is unthinkable and unacceptable to take such pictures, let alone publish them.

This incident is reminiscent of the worst episodes when the paparazzi stalked Princess Diana and makes the Prince and Duchess feel more and more.

It seems that the patience of the royal court has snapped, so the trial is just around the corner:

It can't go on like this anymore. They crossed the line.

Katherine and William have every chance to win this case, experts say. In the UK, the publication of such images is illegal in general, since it is forbidden to photograph people without their permission and on their own territory, but in France they will not pat you on the head for this. So, last week, the French won a lawsuit against a magazine that published her photos in a bikini. In addition, this case is ticklish:

French judges also take into account the behavior of the person who is taken by surprise. Katherine absolutely looks like a victim, as it is clear that she was unaware of the presence of the paparazzi.

By the way, this is not the first time that the paparazzi show disrespect for the privacy of the royal couple. So, most recently, William and Katherine were leaked to the press. In those photographs, Katherine is in a bathing suit, and there is nothing criminal in them, but even then the court condemned the publication, and the spouses expressed their dissatisfaction. Now the situation is out of control.

Well, we will follow developments.

Paparazzi have stalked Duchess Catherine and Prince William before

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