Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Vault
Time Travel Schematics
T.E.C. Time Archive
The Why Files
Have You Seen...?
Chronovisor
TimeTravelForum.tk
TimeTravelForum.net
ParanormalNetwork.net
Paranormalis.com
ConspiracyCafe.net
Streams
Live streams
Featured streams
Multi-Viewer
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
General Discussion Forum
General Discussion
Breaking World News
Prince William, Kate Middleton suing over topless photos
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Samstwitch" data-source="post: 57345" data-attributes="member: 2770"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="http://shine.yahoo.com/love-sex/revealing-photos-kate-stir-memories-diana-tragedy-183500552.html" target="_blank">Revealing Photos of Kate Stir Memories of Diana Tragedy</a></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Do people no longer have the right to a private life once they become famous? Fans and detractors alike apparently have a limitless appetite for dirt on any kind of celebrity from movie stars to "real" housewives to presidents. But that doesn't mean the incessant buzz of <a href="http://yhoo.it/M1kkr1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">paparazzi</span></u></span></a> hovering over their every move, like flies on a wounded animal, is ethical. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">On Friday, the French magazine Closer <a href="http://yhoo.it/Qpbh6A" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">released topless pictures of Kate Middleton</span></u></span></a> and both the royal family and 10 Downing Street (the office of the prime minister) are accusing the media of <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2202895/Kate-Middleton-topless-photos-Duchess-puts-brave-smile-picture-outrage.html?openGraphAuthor=%2Fhome%2Fsearch.html%3Fs%3D%26authornamef%3DRebecca%2BEnglish%2C%2BRoyal%2BCorrespondent&videoPlayerURL=http%3A%2F%2Fc.brightcove.com%2Fservices%2Fviewer%2Ffederated_f9%3FisVid%3D1%26isUI%3D1%26publisherID%3D1418450360%26playerID%3D72484359001%26domain%3Dembed%26videoId%3D&hasBCVideo=true&BCVideoID=1839821038001" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">"having crossed a red line."</span></u></span></a> Moreover, they have pointed out, the incident is doubly painful because of the late Princess Diana's tortured relationship with the press, which ended in her death in a high-speed car crash while being chased by photographers. "The incident is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of <a href="http://yhoo.it/NsptxT" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Diana, Princess of Wales</span></u></span></a>," reads the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/14/kate-middleton-topless-royal-statement-saddened_n_1883174.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">official statement</span></u></span></a> out of St. James Palace, "and all the more upsetting to The Duke and Duchess for being so." The statement also called the publication of the photos "grotesque" and "unjustifiable." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The images were taken while Prince William and Kate were sunbathing on vacation in France at a chateau owned by Lord Linley, the Queen's nephew. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">When Lady Diana Spencer became engaged to Prince Charles in 1981, she was a shy 20-year-old kindergarten teacher. Immediately thrust into the spotlight, she later said that dealing with the press was the greatest challenge of being a part of the royal family. "The most daunting aspect was the media attention, because my husband and I, we were told when we got engaged that the media would go quietly, and it didn't," she <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/royals/interviews/bbc.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">told BBC reporter Martin Bashir in 1995</span></u></span></a>, "and then when we were married they said it would go quietly and it didn't; and then it started to focus very much on me, and I seemed to be on the front of a newspaper every single day, which is an isolating experience, and the higher the media put you, place you, is the bigger the drop." In the same interview, she suggests that the constant scrutiny, especially after she suffered from a bout of post-natal depression and was labeled "unstable," battered her self-esteem. Her confidence low, she admits she resorted to self-harm (which she calls "hurting my arms and legs") and bulimia as an escape.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/royals-angered-by-publication-of-kate-middleton-topless-in-french-closer-magazine-in-worst-excesses-of-paparazzi-since-diana-8138710.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Independent UK</span></u></span></a> reports the Royal Highnesses reacted to the publication of the revealing Kate photos with "anger and disbelief" and were "hugely saddened." Still, they proceeded with their duties on an official tour of <a href="http://yhoo.it/OoC2Gm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Southeast Asia</span></u></span></a>. In stark contrast to the photo fracas, Middleton donned a modest pearl grey dress and veil when she attended a public ceremony at a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and comported herself with mind boggling poise given the controversy. According to <a href="http://news.sky.com/story/984939/royals-sue-magazine-over-kate-topless-photos" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Sky News</span></u></span></a>, the future Queen of England chatted with her husband and warmly greeted the gathered crowds. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Laurence Pieau, the editor-in-chief of <a href="http://www.closermag.fr/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Closer</span></u></span></a> is defending the magazine's choice to publish the photos and is brushing it off as a tempest in a teacup—presumably one containing English Breakfast. "There's been an over-reaction to these photos. What we see is a young couple, who just got married, who are very much in love, who are splendid…" <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/14/kate-middleton-topless-photos-privacy-laws?newsfeed=true" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">"she told French BFM television</span></u></span></a>. "It's a young woman who is topless, the same as you can see on any beach in France or around the world." Of course, if Kate Middleton were a regular young woman on any beach, the pictures would be worthless. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">According to the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/14/kate-middleton-topless-photos-privacy-laws?newsfeed=true" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Guardian UK</span></u></span></a>, the photos breach French privacy laws, which are some of the strictest in the world (and which is why so many celebrities including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as well as Johnny Depp choose to live there). A spokesperson for the palace told the<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19604535" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccffcc"><u><span style="color: #0000ff"> BBC</span></u></span></a> that legal proceedings have been launched against the magazine for breach of privacy. Privacy lawyer Thomas Roussineau tells the Guardian the magazine knew full well it was breaking the law, but was betting that the revenue gained would be worth the risk. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Suing Closer won't help Middleton much. Images of her at her most intimate will have already circulated around the Internet millions of times. While she's hanging tough now, we hope that, unlike Diana, she will be able to cope as the press picks at the bones of the hundreds of personal events that are yet to come in her life as a member of the royal family</span>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samstwitch, post: 57345, member: 2770"] [SIZE=6][B][URL='http://shine.yahoo.com/love-sex/revealing-photos-kate-stir-memories-diana-tragedy-183500552.html']Revealing Photos of Kate Stir Memories of Diana Tragedy[/URL][/B][/SIZE] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Do people no longer have the right to a private life once they become famous? Fans and detractors alike apparently have a limitless appetite for dirt on any kind of celebrity from movie stars to "real" housewives to presidents. But that doesn't mean the incessant buzz of [URL='http://yhoo.it/M1kkr1'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]paparazzi[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL] hovering over their every move, like flies on a wounded animal, is ethical. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]On Friday, the French magazine Closer [URL='http://yhoo.it/Qpbh6A'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]released topless pictures of Kate Middleton[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL] and both the royal family and 10 Downing Street (the office of the prime minister) are accusing the media of [URL='http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2202895/Kate-Middleton-topless-photos-Duchess-puts-brave-smile-picture-outrage.html?openGraphAuthor=%2Fhome%2Fsearch.html%3Fs%3D%26authornamef%3DRebecca%2BEnglish%2C%2BRoyal%2BCorrespondent&videoPlayerURL=http%3A%2F%2Fc.brightcove.com%2Fservices%2Fviewer%2Ffederated_f9%3FisVid%3D1%26isUI%3D1%26publisherID%3D1418450360%26playerID%3D72484359001%26domain%3Dembed%26videoId%3D&hasBCVideo=true&BCVideoID=1839821038001'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]"having crossed a red line."[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL] Moreover, they have pointed out, the incident is doubly painful because of the late Princess Diana's tortured relationship with the press, which ended in her death in a high-speed car crash while being chased by photographers. "The incident is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of [URL='http://yhoo.it/NsptxT'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Diana, Princess of Wales[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL]," reads the [URL='http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/14/kate-middleton-topless-royal-statement-saddened_n_1883174.html'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]official statement[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL] out of St. James Palace, "and all the more upsetting to The Duke and Duchess for being so." The statement also called the publication of the photos "grotesque" and "unjustifiable." [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]The images were taken while Prince William and Kate were sunbathing on vacation in France at a chateau owned by Lord Linley, the Queen's nephew. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]When Lady Diana Spencer became engaged to Prince Charles in 1981, she was a shy 20-year-old kindergarten teacher. Immediately thrust into the spotlight, she later said that dealing with the press was the greatest challenge of being a part of the royal family. "The most daunting aspect was the media attention, because my husband and I, we were told when we got engaged that the media would go quietly, and it didn't," she [URL='http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/royals/interviews/bbc.html'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]told BBC reporter Martin Bashir in 1995[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL], "and then when we were married they said it would go quietly and it didn't; and then it started to focus very much on me, and I seemed to be on the front of a newspaper every single day, which is an isolating experience, and the higher the media put you, place you, is the bigger the drop." In the same interview, she suggests that the constant scrutiny, especially after she suffered from a bout of post-natal depression and was labeled "unstable," battered her self-esteem. Her confidence low, she admits she resorted to self-harm (which she calls "hurting my arms and legs") and bulimia as an escape.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]The [URL='http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/royals-angered-by-publication-of-kate-middleton-topless-in-french-closer-magazine-in-worst-excesses-of-paparazzi-since-diana-8138710.html'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Independent UK[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL] reports the Royal Highnesses reacted to the publication of the revealing Kate photos with "anger and disbelief" and were "hugely saddened." Still, they proceeded with their duties on an official tour of [URL='http://yhoo.it/OoC2Gm'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Southeast Asia[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL]. In stark contrast to the photo fracas, Middleton donned a modest pearl grey dress and veil when she attended a public ceremony at a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and comported herself with mind boggling poise given the controversy. According to [URL='http://news.sky.com/story/984939/royals-sue-magazine-over-kate-topless-photos'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Sky News[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL], the future Queen of England chatted with her husband and warmly greeted the gathered crowds. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Laurence Pieau, the editor-in-chief of [URL='http://www.closermag.fr/'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Closer[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL] is defending the magazine's choice to publish the photos and is brushing it off as a tempest in a teacup—presumably one containing English Breakfast. "There's been an over-reaction to these photos. What we see is a young couple, who just got married, who are very much in love, who are splendid…" [URL='http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/14/kate-middleton-topless-photos-privacy-laws?newsfeed=true'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]"she told French BFM television[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL]. "It's a young woman who is topless, the same as you can see on any beach in France or around the world." Of course, if Kate Middleton were a regular young woman on any beach, the pictures would be worthless. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]According to the [URL='http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/14/kate-middleton-topless-photos-privacy-laws?newsfeed=true'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Guardian UK[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL], the photos breach French privacy laws, which are some of the strictest in the world (and which is why so many celebrities including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as well as Johnny Depp choose to live there). A spokesperson for the palace told the[URL='http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19604535'][COLOR=#ccffcc][U][COLOR=#0000ff] BBC[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL] that legal proceedings have been launched against the magazine for breach of privacy. Privacy lawyer Thomas Roussineau tells the Guardian the magazine knew full well it was breaking the law, but was betting that the revenue gained would be worth the risk. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Suing Closer won't help Middleton much. Images of her at her most intimate will have already circulated around the Internet millions of times. While she's hanging tough now, we hope that, unlike Diana, she will be able to cope as the press picks at the bones of the hundreds of personal events that are yet to come in her life as a member of the royal family[/COLOR]. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
General Discussion Forum
General Discussion
Breaking World News
Prince William, Kate Middleton suing over topless photos
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
Accept
Learn more…
Top