St James's Palace has confirmed that it is taking legal action against the French edition of Closer magazine, which this week [uuid=4e2d3ec1-de2e-4bb7-b29b-5a99cd8d2d1d]Kate Middleton - too.
A statement from the palace [uuid=e36c5e0a-ded8-4704-8536-0c4cb257edd0]yesterday described the pictures[/uuid] - of Wills and Kate on holiday in Provence - as "reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of Diana, Princess of Wales".
"Their Royal Highnesses had every expectation of privacy in the remote house," the statement added. "It is unthinkable that anyone should take such photographs, let alone publish them."
But [uuid=738af929-b3bb-4c97-be97-8f244a9f1ad6]the editor of Closer France has defended the decision[/uuid] to print the pictures and insisted that the reaction has been over the top.

The Sun has declared that it will NOTpublish the images, despite recently printing pictures of Prince Harry naked in his Las Vegas hotel room.