The editor of French magazine Closer on Friday defended publishing topless photos of Prince William’s wife Catherine and said she was offering them for sale to publications across the world.
“These photos are not in the least shocking. They show a young woman sunbathing topless, like the millions of women you see on beaches,” Laurence Pieau said.
She said La Provence, a newspaper in the southern French region where the pictures were taken, had previously published a photo of the couple sunbathing on the same terrace of the chateau where the topless pictures were taken.
“It’s still on the Internet. That shocked no-one,” said the editor of the magazine owned by Mondadori, an Italian media company owned disgraced Italian ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Closer has a world exclusive on the topless photos but plans to offer them for sale to other magazines across the globe, said Pieau. She declined to say how much her magazine paid for the images.
She said the terrace of the plush Viscount Linley villa where Catherine was pictured sunbathing with her husband was clearly visible from a nearby road.