The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have welcomed a French court verdict that paparazzi photos of Kate topless on holiday were an invasion of the royal couple’s privacy. The awards, while high for a French court, are considerably lower than the €1.5m the couple’s legal team had demanded. A week before the Closer pictures were published, La Provence carried a photograph of Kate in the same property wearing a swimsuit. Suau admitted taking photographs of the royal couple at the Linley property, but said she did not consider them to be a breach of privacy. During the May hearing, Iweins attacked the “Anglo-Saxon reasoning behind punitive damages and compensation” and said the trial was hypocritical.

Source: The Guardian September 05, 2017 12:07 UTC