Italian magazine to print more Kate photos
For UK's popular press, publication of photos showing topless duchess is beyond the pale
The British royal family faced a multinational battle to contain the spread of topless photos of Princess William's wife Catherine, as an Irish tabloid published them yesterday and an Italian magazine said it would print new photos.
Italy's Chi magazine will devote 26 pages to the series of pictures in an edition coming out tomorrow.
A version of the front cover of the gossip publication showed some of the photos with the headline "The Queen is Naked!" The royal family had swiftly sued the French magazine Closer, published by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mondadori Group. Chi also belongs to the group.
"The fact that these are the future rulers of England makes the article more topical," Chi editor Alfonso Signorini said.
The royal couple's St James's Palace office condemned the moves as unjustifiable and evidence of pure greed, and said it was considering "all proportionate responses".
The Dublin-based Irish Daily Star ran a blurry reproduction of the pages from Closer.
"She's not our future queen," Editor Mike O'Kane told the BBC. "The duchess would be no different to any other celeb pics we would get in, for example Rihanna or Lady Gaga."