'Furious' Kate and William may sue French magazine over publication of topless photos

Shame that money will be exchanged over this. This fuels a reciprocal taboo. If nobody cared, nobody would shoot poor Kate's boobies.

Can understand Wills and co being furious but best to refrain from reacting publicly. They're people but the media have inferred that they're the most important people in the world. The public reaction, or at least the media interpretation thereof, has brought about if nothing else a sense of ostensible omnipotence from the royals, ie "we're reacting like this because it's us, we have a right to feel like this because we're the royals." In privacy terms it's no different from if any other celebrity had her boobs shot without her permission; indeed, there's no point praising the tabloids for some decency. Next summer, I'm pretty sure there will be Sun journalists in Southern Europe tracking Abbey Clancy's every movement. In fact, we should be annoyed at the tabloids for perpetuating the hierarchical representation of the royals as "above us".

We accept the potential disadvantages of celebrity status whilst decrying those who cause them. Tabloids on the other hand should go to hell if they think some people are more important than others.

In short, I hate the media machine.

Whether or not it was "open air" they have the right to privacy. You cannot simply hover over someone's personal property and claim that they should "expect" no privacy.

Either way, it would seem what was done was pretty blatantly illegal. It's simply a case that the profit that will be made selling the extra magazines will likely outweigh whatever judgement is brought against them

You seem to be making the incorrect assumption that other celebrities don't sue tabloids and other gossip media for invasion of privacy. They do, and have won as well. It's simply that these cases are not as well publicised as this one

I'm sure news helicopters take photos of lots of people's private roofs.

This was a paparazzi mission for the singular intent of getting a photo of someone for financial gain in a PRIVATE area. Not a newscopter

THEY ARE ONLY BOOBS why shouldn't Kate be able to go on holiday relax and sunbathe like any other person? Yes she made the choice to marry a royal but she has taken on all the responsibilities of that and fitted into the role seamlessly she does loads for charity and is a genuinely nice person so why do people feel the need to try and find something to hold against her? Perverted paparazzi trying to ruin her holiday and her reputation. Low lives like that should be banned from owning cameras.

Because celebrities dont always make an effort to look respectable, they have to stay famous to make their living so will do many things for attention. Look at lindsay lohan and Britney for example getting drunk and who knows what. many celebrities just seem to rely on their scandal getting in the paper and female celebrities dont always dress smartly or modestly.

Whereas the royals try to make an effort to look respectable and represent our country. They dont generally go out making scandals of themselves. They dress and act with modesty and self respect. They constantly act with a dignity that celebrities dont.


Not that its acceptable for anyones privacy to be invaded but this is why this is considered worse i think.

It doesn't apply to every celebrity though. Some really pleasant decent celebrities who arn't scandal magnets have the same thing done to them and their privacy is invaded. Are we saying that Celebrities since their famous deserve to have their privacy breached whenever but then there's another standard for the Royals. What your saying is every celebrity is a rotten egg but every royal is an angel im sorry but that's complete rubbish.

I didnt say they deserved to have their privacy breached at all. I dont think they should actually which you would know if you had read all of my post.

I was explaining the probable reason why the british public feels this is worse than celebrities.

Read my ****ing post before you start accusing me of things yeah?

No, you basically generalized all celebrities as some sort of scum that every single one of them was like Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears. Both had their privacy breached but just because their royals doesn't mean they get to be treated better.

Dont tell me what i meant, b/c you obviously have no ****ing clue.

I gave an example of what the british public think and why they think it. I gave examples of celebrities that were searching for that sort of attention and no where did i mention that every single celebrity was like that.

So sorry i didnt put every in and out of this in my original post, didnt explain every little thing. i didnt realise there were such dumbassess on here that wouldnt understand that that was
A. a generalisation that didnt rule out the existence of better behaved celebrities but named the worst since yknow i have better things to do that list every ****ing celebrity under the sun.
B. The general opinion of the public.

I did not say anywhere that celebrities deserve no privacy. Quite the opposite.

So stop attacking me for explaining what most people think to answer the OP's question and piss off someplace else.