The Duchess of Kate is going to sue whichever tawdry French rag published pictures of her topless. Whatever you want Kate. Personally I would not have published them because it is an invasion of her privacy, it is not in the public interest and, above all, it is really very boring indeed. But what the Royal Family and the British Establishment fail to understand is the sheer pointlessness of it all.
We say it with those gagging orders designed to stop us know that Andrew Marr and Ryan Giggs were playing away from home and various other celeb matters which were so dull that I have forgotten about them already. We see it with Kate.
If you wish to see her topless you can now see the photos in the tawdry French rag, an Italian rag, the Irish Daily Star, the Brokerman Daniel website. If you do not wish to pay to see these images you can see them for free all over the internet. A google search for images of “Kate Middleton topless” just turned up 318 million results for me. I took it no further but you get my drift.
Kate may well win her case and the lawyers and her chosen charity will benefit. But in the global internet age if you are a Royal or a celeb the reality is that you have no real privacy. I am sorry but that is just life. Gagging orders and legal threats achieve nothing. It is not an ideal situation and I feel a bit sorry for poor Kate but she and the rest of “the firm” just need to appreciate that the world has changed. If Kate does not want her boobs to be seen by all she needs to keep her bra on. If Ryan Giggs does not want the world to know that he shagged some slapper his brother married, he should not have shagged her. It is that simple.
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