The Sun has today confirmed it will not be publishing the topless photographs of Kate Middleton that have surfaced in a French gossip magazine.
The tabloid's editor Dominic Mohan said "the circumstances are very different" to those relating to the photos of Prince Harry in Las Vegas, which the paper ran on its front page.
"The Sun has no intention of breaching the royal couple's privacy," Mohan said this afternoon.
"Prince Harry was at a party with a large group of strangers – one of whom released a photo into the public domain."
French magazine Closer has been criticised for publishing the pictures, which were taken while the Duchess of Cambridge was sunbathing on a private holiday.
But its editor Laurence Pieau defended using the images, branding the criticism "very very stupid".
He is quoted by ITV News as saying: "It's a coup to have these exclusive pictures, but what surprises me is the drama that's being made of the images - they're of a young couple in their swimming costumes, married for a year - of a young princess who in some of the pictures is topless.
"We need to stop getting so worked up, there are young women topless on half the beaches in the world, the photos aren't degrading.
"The criticism that's come out is very very stupid, they're a young couple on holiday on a terrace in a chateau in the south of France, and the terrace is visible from a public highway."
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So The Sun, famous and unrepentant for publishing photos of topless women did not publish those of Kate. The lawyers defending William and Kate stated that she is a "young woman and not an object". The same logic applies equally to all women in this country who are objectified and sexualised by images such as those published in the Sun. There is a clear double standard here - would they have made such a fuss if it had been anyone else other than Kate? Now Kate is being treated as a "Page 3 Girl" in other countries. If it is wrong to treat Kate in this way, then it is wrong to treat all women in this manner. The argument that the women who pose in the Sun do so of their own choice is like saying a person from a certain race has the right to appear in racist images which denigrate their own race. This does not make it right or exonerate those who make money by publishing these images.
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