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e privacy of Britain s royal family and the freedom mermaid prom dresses of the press weeks after a U.website published grainy photos of William s younger brother Harry cavorting naked in a Las Vegas hotel room.Harry started the fashion: these days the Windsors take their clothes off, the French magazine quipped in the photo spread, which it claimed as a world exclusive on the couple s mini-vacation in early September.William and his younger brother Harry are the sons of heir-to-the-throne Charles, whose 86-year-old mother Queen Elizabeth has enjoyed enormous popularity in her diamond jubilee year.Many in Britain felt there was a difference between exposing laddish antics by a royal in Las Vegas and intruding on William and Kate s private holiday.If she had taken her top off during a public engagement, it would be fair game, but they were on holiday, having personal time and so deserve privacy, said Shelley Brunton, 22, an office receptionist in London s financial district.The editor of the Sun tabloid, the only British paper to run the nude Prince Harry photos, said that for the same reason it would not publish the shots of Kate.The Sun has no intention of breaching the royal couple s privacy by publishing these intrusive pictures, editor Dominic Mohan said.A torrent of twitter commentary on both sides of the Channel mostly chided Closer for running the shots.Utter disgrace that a mid-market French rag has invaded Kate Middleton s privacy like this.Gutter press morality, tweeted billionaire media magnate Evgeny Lebedev, who owns British daily The Independent and London s Evening Standard.ANGER AND DISBELIEF The photos of Harry stained a positive image the Royal family has carefully crafted as it worked to turn the page on Princess Diana s death in 1997 and a raft of scandals at the time including Prince Andrew s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson having her toes sucked by a U.businessman as she sunbathed topless.Royal sources said the photo spread felt like a flashback to the paparazzi chases of Princess Diana, William s mother, making celebrity dresses it even more painful for him.There is a feeling of anger and disbelief, one source said.We feel there has been a red line crossed with regard to publishing these images.Have the paparazzi learnt nothing from Diana s death, Britain s MailOnline tweeted.William and Kate were staying at the Chateau d Autet near Aix-en-Provence in the Luberon region, whose picture-postcard villages, rolling lavender fields and vineyards have made it a favourite getaway spot for wealthy foreigners.At one point the Duchess, clearly recognisable in the slightly fuzzy images, stands up and partly peels down her bikini bottoms as William rubs sun lotion on her back.The last time we saw Kate and William on a balcony it was for their wedding.But they had more clothes on, reads one photo caption.Another says: People always say she doesn t need to dress up to look good.Well Kate is proving this.Many in France where topless sunbathing is commonplace and Britain s royals are regarded with a mixture of fascination and bemusement given the French deposed their last monarch in 1870 could not see what all the fuss was all about.It doesn t shock me at all, said a newspaper vendor called Sylvie, selling the magazine in central Paris.Like any woman in a private place, she should be able to do what she likes.French magazine Closer unleashed a new media tornado on Britain’s royal family on Friday with a five-page splash of photos showing the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, sunbathing topless with Prince William in the south of France.Closer, a weekly round-up of celebrity gossip, ran a dozen shots of the duchess as she slipped off her bikini top, relaxed on a sun lounger and at one point pulled down the back of her bikini bottoms as William rubbed sun cream on her lower back.RelatedRoyals ‘saddened’ after topless Kate Middleton photos published in French tabloid CloserKelly McParland: The serious debate about Prince Harry's buttIt's about 'freedom of the press': U.tabloid celebrity dresses ignores Royal warning, runs nude Prince Harry photo on coverPrince Harry naked photo runs on cover of Murdoch's Sun; more photos expected to emergeThe spread is a blow to Buckingham Palace as it tries to move on from a scandal over naked shots of Prince Harry that tarred an image bolstered by Kate and William’s wedding, the Queen’s 2012 Diamond Jubilee and her Olympic Games appearance.move that had upset the royal couple, currently touring southeast Asia, and said Buckingham Palace was consulting lawyers.a spokesperson for St James’ Palace said.British Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokeswoman also said the royal couple should be entitled to their privacy.that showed a couple in love and were in no way degrading.There’s been an over-reaction to these photos.Pieau told French BFM television.It’s a young woman who is topless, the same as you can see on any beach in France or around the world.It would likely lose any legal case over invasion of privacy, although profits from the issue would likely far exceed any fine faced, probably just a few thousand euros.said Christopher Mesnooh, a U.They were on vacation in a friend’s chateau.reopens a debate over the privacy of Britain’s royal family and the freedom of the press weeks after a U.website published grainy photos of William’s younger brother Harry cavorting naked in a Las Vegas hotel room.the French magazine quipped in the photo spread, which it claimed as a world exclusive on the couple’s mini-vacation in early September.Many in Britain felt there was a difference, however, between exposing laddish antics by a royal in Las Vegas and intruding on William and Kate’s private holiday.said Shelley Brunton, 22, an office receptionist in London’s financial district.editor Dominic Mohan said.A torrent of Twitter commentary on both sides of the Channel mostly chided Closer for running the shots.Utter disgrace that a mid-market French rag has invaded Kate Middleton’s privacy like this.tweeted billionaire media ma