Kate topless pictures: Royals launch criminal complaint.

Culled from BBC News.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have launched a criminal complaint in France in relation to the publication of pictures of the duchess topless.

In a separate civil case later, the royal couple will seek to have an edition of the French magazine Closer withdrawn after it printed the images.
The images have appeared on foreign websites, the Irish Daily Star and most recently Italian gossip magazin

He says most lawyers seem to agree that under strict French law the pictures represent an undisputed breach of privacy - an open-and-shut case.

An injunction, if granted, would lead to the magazine being withdrawn from shelves immediately but the tribunal's judgement will only relate to the distribution of the photos in France.
The action has not stopped Closer's Italian sister magazine, Chi, from publishing the same photos but the speed with which the royal couple have acted may deter others from publishing the pictures.
Chi has printed a special edition featuring more than 20 pages of the photographs.
It carries a picture of the duchess, topless, on its front cover with a headline that reads: "The Queen is Nude!"
In an editorial the magazine's director, Alfonso Signorini, attempted to justify the decision to print the images by saying he considered them to be "normal and up to date with the times".
He said: "Why, I wonder, Kate Middleton, for now Duchess of Cambridge but future queen of the United Kingdom, should be different from girls her age?