26 October,2016 06:15 PM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
Six people are set to face trial over topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge published in 2012. A group of reporters, photographers and media chiefs will be tried in France for invasion of privacy
Six people are set to face trial over topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge published in 2012. A group of reporters, photographers and media chiefs will be tried in France for invasion of privacy.
The snaps of Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William, which appeared in French celebrity magazine 'Closer', were taken with a long lens and showed her topless on a balcony of a private residence in the south of France during a holiday with her husband.
They were published in September 2012, while the royal couple visited South East Asia and the South Pacific on their Diamond Jubilee tour.
Closer's chief editor, the head of 'Closer's parent company Mondadori, two news agency photographers and a photographer and a senior figure at French newspaper La Provence will have to answer in court over the publication of the intimate photos.
The pictures in question first appeared on the front page of the regional daily in southern France on September 7, 2012, before Closer gave them a wider audience a week later.
The directors of La Provence denied that one of their photographers took the offending pictures.
