Australian magazine to publish pregnant-Kate pictures

A second magazine plans to publish controversial pictures of a pregnant Kate Middleton wearing a bikini on holiday.

Australian magazine to publish pregnant-Kate pictures

A second magazine plans to publish controversial pictures of a pregnant Kate Middleton wearing a bikini on holiday.

Kate was photographed on a beach in the Caribbean with Prince William.

Today, Italian magazine Chi goes on sale with the pictures, and now Australian magazine Woman’s Day is due to follow suit.

Britain's St James's Palace condemned the decision to publish the pictures.

The editor of the Australian magazine has defended her decision to print the photographs taken on a private Caribbean holiday, saying her readers will “love” the images.

The photos show Kate strolling on a beach on the island of Mustique with William. They were reportedly taken from a boat using a long-lens camera, but Fiona Connolly, editor of Woman’s Day, claimed a member of the public snapped the Duchess.

Speaking to Australia’s Channel Nine network ahead of publishing the pictures in Monday’s edition of the magazine, Ms Connolly said: “This is not a hard decision about these photos. Kate’s on a public beach, there are other holiday-makers there and she looks fabulous.”

She made a distinction between the new pictures and those taken while Kate was topless on holiday in France last year as the latest ones were not taken at a private location.

“Look, I think the British are very sensitive about this,” Ms Connolly told Channel Nine. “As Australians, we see this every day. We see pregnant women in bikinis on the beach – and a public one at that – so we are a lot less sensitive here in Australia.”

A St James’s Palace spokesman said last night: “We are disappointed that photographs of the Duke and Duchess on a private holiday look likely to be published overseas.

“This is a clear breach of the couple’s right to privacy.”

The spokesman would not comment on whether William had been informed about the issue or if they were considering legal action against the magazine.

But Ms Connolly said: “Our readers are going to love these photos. I don’t expect any backlash at all really. I think she’s looking fabulous and healthy and (with) a beautiful bump, like we haven’t seen her before.”

Chi, which produced a 26-page spread showing last year’s topless images, published the Mustique pictures today.

On a website publicising the magazine – owned by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi – Kate, who is about four months pregnant, is pictured on the magazine’s front cover in a blue bikini striding knee-high through the sea above the headline “the belly grows”.

A second image shows the Duke, wearing shorts, with his left arm around his wife as they walk along a beach.

It is believed that the royal couple are still holidaying on Mustique and during their time on the island were reportedly joined by Kate’s parents Carole and Michael Middleton and her siblings James and Pippa.

Photographs of Pippa in a bikini are also being offered for sale, the Daily Mail said.

William was outraged by the intrusion into his wife’s privacy while they stayed at a private estate in southern France last summer.

France’s Closer magazine was the first publication to print the images in September last year and the Duke and Duchess later secured an injunction from a French court stopping further pictures appearing in the title.

At the time Chi’s editor Alfonso Signorini defended his decision to also publish the topless pictures, saying: “I am a director of a newspaper not a supermarket, I don’t sell artichokes and carrots, I sell photographic scoops.”

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