英王室就凱特王妃半裸照起訴法媒體大綱

Lawyers for Britain's royal family will go to court in France on Monday in a bid to stop further publication in that country of topless photos of William's wife Kate, the prince's office said Sunday.

St. James's Palace says lawyers will seek an injunction against Italian media group Mondadori, which publishes France's Closer and Italy's Chi gossip magazines.

The palace also will seek damages from the publisher, which is owned by former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi. Last week Closer published paparazzi snaps of Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, sunbathing during a holiday at a relative's chateau in Provence. Chi says it will publish 26 pages of the images — taken with a long lens from hundreds of meters away — on Monday.

An Irish tabloid reproduced the Closer photos on Saturday, but no British publication has run them, and Britain's tabloids have lined up to denounce them as an invasion of the duchess' privacy.

The palace condemned publication of the images and said it was considering "all proportionate responses" against Chi, though no decision has been made on legal action against it or the Irish Daily Star.

The strong response stands in contrast to the reception of naked photos of Prince Harry partying in Las Vegas, which appeared online last month and were later published in Britain's Sun tabloid. The palace shrugged off the photos, snapped during a game of strip billiards, and took no action against those who published them.

Some see British papers' reluctance to run the Kate photos as a sign the country's once-rambunctious tabloids have been cowed by a scandal over phone hacking and other wrongdoing, which brought public opprobrium and an ongoing media-ethics inquiry.

The storm over the photos erupted as William and Kate made an official tour of Singapore, Malaysia and the South Pacific. They arrived in the Solomon Islands on Sunday and will end their trip Tuesday in the island nation of Tuvalu.威廉王子辦公室上週日表示，英國王室的律師將於本週一向一家法國法院提起訴訟，以阻止法國雜誌繼續刊登凱特王妃的半裸照。

聖詹姆斯宮表示，律師將要求禁止意大利蒙達多利傳媒集團旗下的法國名人八卦雜誌《靠近》和意大利八卦雜誌《Chi》刊登這些照片。

英國王室還要求這家出版商做出賠償，而該出版商的老闆就是意大利前總理貝盧斯科尼。上週，《靠近》刊登了狗仔隊拍攝的英國王妃凱特的照片，當時她正在王室親屬位於普羅旺斯的一座城堡度假。《Chi》還宣佈將在週一刊登26幅照片，這些照片都是狗仔隊在數百米外通過長焦鏡頭拍攝的。

愛爾蘭一家八卦小報上週六對《靠近》雜誌的照片進行了轉載，但英國媒體都沒有刊登。英國的八卦小報一致譴責其侵犯了王妃的隱私。

英國王室對刊登照片的行爲進行了譴責，表示正考慮對《Chi》雜誌進行“所有適當的迴應”，但還沒有決定對《Chi》和愛爾蘭《每日星報》採取法律行動。

英國王室對此事的強烈反應與對待哈里王子拉斯維加斯派對裸照一事的態度形成了鮮明對比。哈里的裸照上月出現在網上，之後被英國《太陽報》刊登。英國王室對這些照片不屑理睬，對刊登照片的媒體也沒有采取行動。當時哈里王子和衆人玩起了“脫衣檯球”。

一些人認爲，英國報紙不願刊登凱特的照片，可以看出英國一度難以掌控的八卦小報受到了電話竊聽醜聞和其他醜聞的影響，這些醜聞導致了公衆對媒體的責罵，以及持續進行的媒體道德質詢。

裸照風波是在威廉和凱特對新加坡、馬來西亞和南太平洋進行正式訪問時爆發的。他們在上週日抵達了所羅門羣島，並將在本週二結束訪問之旅，終點站是島國圖瓦盧。