英王室就凯特王妃半裸照起诉法媒体

Copies of French magazine Closer showing pictures of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Britain's Prince William are displayed in a newspaper kiosk in Nice, September 14, 2017.(Agencies)

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.

(Read by Rosie Tuck. Rosie Tuck is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)

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威廉王子办公室上周日表示，英国王室的律师将于本周一向一家法国法院提起诉讼，以阻止法国杂志继续刊登凯特王妃的半裸照。

圣詹姆斯宫表示，律师将要求禁止意大利蒙达多利传媒集团旗下的法国名人八卦杂志《靠近》和意大利八卦杂志《Chi》刊登这些照片。

英国王室还要求这家出版商做出赔偿，而该出版商的老板就是意大利前总理贝卢斯科尼。上周，《靠近》刊登了狗仔队拍摄的英国王妃凯特的照片，当时她正在王室亲属位于普罗旺斯的一座城堡度假。《Chi》还宣布将在周一刊登26幅照片，这些照片都是狗仔队在数百米外通过长焦镜头拍摄的。

爱尔兰一家八卦小报上周六对《靠近》杂志的照片进行了转载，但英国媒体都没有刊登。英国的八卦小报一致谴责其侵犯了王妃的隐私。

英国王室对刊登照片的行为进行了谴责，表示正考虑对《Chi》杂志进行“所有适当的回应”，但还没有决定对《Chi》和爱尔兰《每日星报》采取法律行动。

英国王室对此事的强烈反应与对待哈里王子拉斯维加斯派对裸照一事的态度形成了鲜明对比。哈里的裸照上月出现在网上，之后被英国《太阳报》刊登。英国王室对这些照片不屑理睬，对刊登照片的媒体也没有采取行动。当时哈里王子和众人玩起了“脱衣台球”。

一些人认为，英国报纸不愿刊登凯特的照片，可以看出英国一度难以掌控的八卦小报受到了电话窃听丑闻和其他丑闻的影响，这些丑闻导致了公众对媒体的责骂，以及持续进行的媒体道德质询。

裸照风波是在威廉和凯特对新加坡、马来西亚和南太平洋进行正式访问时爆发的。他们在上周日抵达了所罗门群岛，并将在本周二结束访问之旅，终点站是岛国图瓦卢。

Vocabulary:

paparazzi: 狗仔队

rambunctious: 放纵的，难控制的

opprobrium: 责骂