New Photos of Kate Middleton Spark Royal Outrage

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="headline-author" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 92px;"><div style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #888888; font: inherit; line-height: normal; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By</span> ABC News</div></div><div class="date" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 533px;">Feb 13, 2013 2:41pm</div><div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 110px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 488px;"><img alt="gty middleton mi 130212 wblog New Photos of Kate Middleton Spark Royal Outrage" height="269" src="http://abcnews.go.com/images/Entertainment/gty_middleton_mi_130212_wblog.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-size: 14px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="An Italian magazine has published photos of a pregnant Kate Middleton wearing a bikini while vacationing on Mustique island in the Caribbean." width="478" /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ABC News’ Carolyn Durand reports:</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong>The same <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/kate-middleton-topless-photos-reportedly-published/story?id=17273174" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #30659c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Italian magazine that last year published photos</a> of<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/01/women-seek-plastic-surgery-to-get-look-of-kate-middletons-nose/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #30659c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> Kate Middleton </a>reportedly sunbathing topless while on vacation with her husband, Prince William, has now released photos of the now-pregnant Duchess of Cambridge.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chi published the photos of the 31-year-old Middleton wearing a blue bikini that showed a barely rounded lower belly.  <a href="http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/katepedia-vogue-dissects-kate-middletons-style-143240925--abc-news-fashion-and-beauty.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #30659c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Middleton and </a><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/prince-william-spends-news-years-morning-daring-rescue/story?id=18112339" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #30659c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Prince William</a> were on vacation on the exclusive Caribbean island of Mustique in St. Vincent and the Grenadines when the photos were taken.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/kate-middleton-topless-french-court-blocks-photos/story?id=17259192&singlePage=true#.UFoDKpF63To" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #30659c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">READ MORE: French Court Blocks Kate Middleton Topless Photos</a></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">St. James’s Palace, which took media outlets to court last year for the vacation photos, quickly issued a statement denouncing the publication of the photos.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/slideshow/kate-middleton-wimbledon-alexander-mcQueen-12598288" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #30659c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">PHOTOS: The Life and Times of Kate Middleton</a></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We are disappointed that photographs of the duke and duchess on a private holiday look likely to be published overseas,” a spokesman for the duke and duchess told ABC News.  “This is a clear breach of the couple’s right to privacy.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chi is published under the Mondadori publishing house owned by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Chi is also the same magazine that, in 1997, published photos of Princess Diana’s dying in a tunnel in Paris after a high-speed car chase with paparazzi that ended in her death at age 36.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Everybody is entitled to privacy, but it’s just different when you’re a royal,” said Victoria Arbiter, royal contributor for ABC News.  “They all crave normality, but they’re not just like everybody else.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://gma.yahoo.com/video/gma-kate-middleton-due-date-080000691.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #30659c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">VIDEO: Kate Middleton Due Date Revealed</a></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The British media, as well as ABC News, have declined to publish the new photos of a pregnant Middleton but today the  Australian magazine Woman’s Day says it will follow Chi’s lead and publish the pictures.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It wasn’t a hard decision to run these photos,” said the magazine’s editor, Fiona Connolly.  “Kate is on a public beach.  There are other holiday-makers there and she looks fabulous.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The island where the royal couple was vacationing, Mustique, prohibits paparazzi.  Middleton and Prince William were also staying in a private villa on private property when the photos were taken.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Middleton, pregnant with the couple’s first child and expected to give birth in July, has only recently begun to show her baby bump after a difficult start to her pregnancy.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font: inherit; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/01/the-royal-bump-day-by-day/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #30659c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">MORE:  The Royal Bump, Day by Day</a></strong></div></div></div>

Kate Middleton New Photos of Kate Middleton Spark Royal Outrage

By  ABC News Feb 13, 2013 2:41pm ABC News’ Carolyn Durand reports: The same  Italian magazine that last year published photos  of  Kate Midd...

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