Two people have been charged over topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, published in a French magazine..
Two people have been charged over topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, it is being reported.
Sources told the AFP news agency the accused are the head of the Mondadori Group - the publisher of glossy magazine Closer where some of the shots were printed - and a photographer at regional daily La Provence.
The photos of Prince William's wife Catherine caused a furore when they were published last September, and sparked a criminal probe into how they were obtained.
Prince William and Kate The couple spoke of their anger about the pictures' publication
Judges in the Paris suburb of Nanterre charged the photographer with 'invasion of privacy' for taking images of the former Kate Middleton in a swimsuit while she was on holiday in the south of France with her husband.
Those shots were published in La Provence, but the most intimate pictures showing the Duchess of Cambridge topless and having sun cream applied by William were published in Closer.
Judges are still investigating who took those photos.
Ernesto Mauri, the chief executive of Mondadori, was also charged with 'invasion of privacy' for allowing the topless shots to be published.
French authorities promptly banned Closer from any further publication or resale of the topless images after they first emerged.
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THE head of a major publishing group and a photographer were charged this month over the publication of intimate photos of Prince William's wife Catherine, sources said.
The photos - some of them of the former Kate Middleton topless - were printed in two separate publications in September, causing a huge furore and leading to the royal couple launching legal proceedings in France.
According to sources close to the case, the head of the Mondadori Group - the publisher of glossy magazine Closer where the topless shots were printed - and a photographer at regional daily La Provence, were both charged.
Judges in the Paris suburb of Nanterre charged the photographer with 'invasion of privacy' for taking photos of the former Kate Middleton in a swimsuit while she was on holiday in the south of France with her husband.
Those shots were published in La Provence. But the most intimate shots showing the Duchess of Cambridge topless and having suncream rubbed into her buttocks by William were published in Closer.
Judges are still investigating who took those photos.
Ernesto Mauri, the chief executive of Mondadori, was meanwhile also charged with 'invasion of privacy' for having let the topless shots be published.
The pictures were taken while the couple sunned themselves on the terrace of a chateau in the south of France.
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The intrusive topless photos of Kate Middleton could lead to charges being handed out to two people in France, a publisher and a photographer, thought to be involved in the scandal.
The two people have now been put under official investigation and are likely to be charged with 'invasion of privacy' for the Kate Middleton photo scandal that hit last September.
The topless photos, originally published in 'Closer' magazine, were taken while Prince William and Kate were staying at the Chateau d'Autet in Provence, France – a private rural villa.
The first person charged is Ernesto Mauri, the CEO of Mondadori, the company responsible for publishing Closer in France.
The photos outraged the British Royal Family, and especially Prince William, who remembers his mother, Princess Diana, being hounded and chased by the paparazzi in France when her car crashed resulting in her death.
The British Royal Family sued Closer in the aftermath of the Kate photos, and the magazine was ordered to hand over all intrusive photos of Middleton.
'These snapshots which showed the intimacy of a couple, partially naked on the terrace of a private home, surrounded by a park several hundred meters from a public road, and being able to legitimately assume that they are protected from passers-by, are by nature particularly intrusive. (They) were thus subjected to this brutal display the moment the cover appeared,' wrote the
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Prince William's wife Catherine on Saturday faced growing embarrassment over topless photos after an Italian magazine said it would follow its French sister publication in printing them.
The British royals launched legal action on Friday against French magazine Closer -- which is part of the media empire of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi -- after it published paparazzi snaps of Catherine sunbathing with her husband.
The royal family may have hoped to contain the scandal by swiftly suing Closer -- but Chi, an Italian weekly also published by Berlusconi's Mondadori Group, announced late Friday that it plans to print a special issue on Monday devoting 26 pages to the candid pictures of the former Kate Middleton.
The pictures were taken while she was on holiday with her husband, the second-in-line to the British throne, in France this month.
Closer's editor Laurence Pieau was quoted by British tabloid The Sun on Saturday as saying her magazine had more pictures that it had not printed yet.
'Intimate pictures exist that we haven't published and will not publish,' she told the newspaper. 'Probably other newspapers will choose to publish them.'
A version of the front cover of Chi showed some of the photos with the headline 'The Queen is Naked!'
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Topless photos of Kate Middleton which showed up in a French magazine last year are at the center of some trouble for two people, who have now had charges filed against them. Investigators are still trying to determine if photographer Valerie Suau snapped the infamous pics of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing sans bikini top at a French chateau. In the meantime, she has been charged with taking photos of Kate in a bathing suit.
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French prosecutors have placed the publisher and photographer of unauthorized topless snaps of Prince William's wife, Kate, under formal criminal investigation, they said Thursday.
Mondadori Magazines France and local photographer Valerie Suau were placed under investigation earlier this month over possible criminal exploitation of the images, which appeared in the French Closer magazine last September, according to Caroline Chassain, Nanterre prosecutor spokeswoman.
Chassain added that Suau's employer, local newspaper La Provence, was also placed under formal criminal investigation Monday.
The photos showed the Duchess of Cambridge relaxing at a private villa in Provence, in southern France, sometimes without her bikini top and, in one case, her suit bottom partially pulled down to apply sunscreen.
If convicted, Closer magazine could face closure for up to five years; the photographer could face fines and — much less likely — a year in prison. The potential punishment for La Provence was not yet clear.
Though the development, which moves the investigation one step toward a full-blown trial, is likely to please royal officials, it will probably take several months before the investigating judge decides whether or not to fully charge the parties on a possible breach of the Duchess of Cambridge's privacy.
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