amonra "if they can read" is really an abusive remark to Sun and Star readers, who do like to ogle women's breasts, supplied by women who like to get their mammary glands pasted across tabloid papers, for a fee of course.

Good luck to them and the paper,and what they earn.

This time I think it will be different. The French court will have to judge on special circumstances concerning this 'privacy' case.

This magazine has banked that it will out sell its normal selling figures to cover the cost of being sued in the French courts. The norm if you like. I bet that the publishers will rue the day that they took this gamble.

"Kate is the wife of the heir to the throne, and most young ladies are not."

Am I the only one to think that part of the price of being wife to the heir to the throne and future Queen, to live a lifestyle way beyond what most of us ever would, to represent Britain in foreign court circles at state banquets, and on overseas goodwill tours, of which some countries some still look down on women as less than dirt, that that price is to carry yourself with an air of supreme dignity that puts yourself beyond reproach to any detractors?

so I guess it would be wrong to expect normal standards of press restraint.

Are these the same normal press restraints that the Leveson Inquiry was looking into? Or that the late Princess Diana experienced? You don't have to look far to find many other examples of the lack of so called normal standards of press restraint. The press are in the business of making money, to do that they must attract buyers/readers and as has been proved will do or print anything that means that they succeed in these aims.

The British press would have printed these images in an instant if they thought they could get away with it, as fourm member has pointed quite rightly pointed out, they are still trying to exploit the situation. Believing that normal standards of press restraint exist is up there with Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy.

I see an Italian magazine is going to run a special edition next week with the photos. Another of Berlusconi's?

FE

"This is 2012" & "suffer the embarrassment of seeing pictures of herself topless all over the place"

That sounds like wanting jam on both sides to me.

If she wants the archaic privileged Royal lifestyle with all the bells and whistles that it brings, she must conduct herself nearer to the Edwardian standards of expectation of 1912 than the celebrity culture standards of 2012.

Would the Royalists still be such staunch Royalists is the Queen had topless holiday pictures of her as the Princess Elizabeth surfacing in her Diamond Jubilee year?