The Irish Daily Star is to become the first publication in the British Isles to print pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless while on holiday with Prince William in France.
The photographs will appear in the Irish edition of the newspaper, which is produced as a joint venture between Independent News and Media and Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell. St James's Palace said in response to the decision: 'There can be no motivation for this action other than greed.'

Mr Desmond, who is chairman of Northern & Shell, said he was 'taking immediate steps to close down the joint venture.'

Moves to publish come amid condemnation from St James's Palace over French magazine, Closer's publication of the photographs last week. The Palace drew comparisons with the media's hounding of Princess Diana and her death in Paris, and described the publication of the photographs as a 'grotesque invasion of privacy'. Lawyers for the royal couple are suing the magazine's publishers..