Kate Middleton Nude Pictures posted in French Magazine

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Pictures published in Closer, French Magazine

nude Kate pictures posted in french magazine

closer - the french magazine who published Kate Middleton nude pictures in magazine. Photograph emerges showing the position where photographer is believed to have taken the controversial pictures – half a mile from chateau.

X is the supposed place from where the pictures taken

Celebrity gossip magazine Closer published a dozen shots of the Duchess of Cambridge on holiday in southern France as she slipped off her bikini top, relaxed on a sun lounger and at one point pulled down the back of her bikini bottoms while William rubbed sun cream on her lower back.

“St James’s Palace confirms that legal proceedings for breach of privacy have been commenced today in France by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge against the publishers of Closer Magazine France,” the couple’s office said in a statement.

Pieau has not disclosed how much the magazine paid for the shots but admitted that the publishers would sell them on to other magazines around the world.

"One shouldn't dramatise these pictures," said Pieau. "The reaction has been a little disproportionate. It is a young couple that has just been married. They are in love. They are beautiful. She is the princess of the 21st century."

The pictures, which were captured by “a professional photographer” with whom the magazine had “previously worked”, were taken while the Duchess was sun bathing on the terrace of the Viscount Linley villa in Provence, southern France. The photographer reportedly took the pictures from a nearby road.

They were visible from the street," said Pieau, adding: "These are pictures that are full of joy. They are not degrading. Similarities have been drawn with the pictures of Harry. They are not similar. These are not degrading."

Chateau D'Autet near Veins, Provence, Southern France, where the young royal couple were relaxing

Invasion of privacy: The Lay by (bottom left) on the opposing valley slope is where it is believed the pictures were shot with a long zoom camera

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Irish Paper prints topless Kate photos

"The decision to publish these pictures has no justification whatever and Northern and Shell condemns it in the strongest possible terms," said the company's chairman Richard Desmond.

Independent News and Media said it had no prior knowledge of the decision, which it described as "regrettable and in poor taste".

The Irish Daily Star's editor Mike O'Kane admitted that he was running the pictures to sell more papers, and said he had treated Catherine as he would any other celebrity.

"The duchess would be no different to any other celeb pics we would get in, for example Rihanna or Lady Gaga," he told the BBC.

"She's not the future queen of Ireland so really the only place this is causing fury seems to be in the UK."

The photos would not appear in the British or Northern Irish editions of the Daily Star, he added.

The royal family also warned Italian gossip magazine Chi on Saturday that "unjustifiable upset" would be heaped upon Catherine if it went ahead with plans to print the photos.

Apparently undeterred by the launch of legal action against French magazine Closer, which first ran the pictures, Chi said on Friday that it would print 26 pages of them in a special edition on Monday.

The magazine's editor Alfonso Signorini said the pictures were "a scoop" he could not afford to miss.

"If I wasn't capable of recognising the true value of a scoop I would do better to go and sell artichokes at the market," he told the ANSA news agency.

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On Friday, it was France’s Closer magazine. On Saturday, it was Ireland’s Irish Daily Star. Now comes word that Italy’s Chi magazine will publish on Monday, a 26-PAGE pictorial ofKate Middleton on vacation with Prince William in France.

The magazine, based in Milan, previewed the cover (above) on Italian TV and in newspapers on Saturday.

“I don’t see anything morbid or damaging in them,” Chi editor Alfonso Signorini told the Associated Press. “Chi pays attention to respecting people’s dignity. I don’t think they hurt Kate’s image.”

He also said he’s not worried about the legal repercussions of publishing the images since they’re in the public domain now that Closer has published them.

Kate Middleton nude pictures published by Closer magazine