LONDON – New developments have been made in the case of topless photo ofKate Middleton.
A French court Wednesday dismissed an appeal by the editors of gossipmagazine *Closer*, who were fined 45,000 euros ($53,000) for publishingpictures of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless in 2012.
The court in Versailles near Paris upheld the maximum fines imposed by alower court last year, which found *Closer*guilty of invading the privacyof Prince William’s wife Kate.
It also confirmed that the celebrity magazine had to pay 100,000 euros indamages to the royal couple.
Closer published the grainy snaps of Kate wearing only bikini bottoms whileon holiday with the prince at a chateau in the Luberon region ofsoutheastern France in September 2012.
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The pictures caused outrage among the British public and the royal family,which filed a criminal complaint and obtained a court injunction preventingfurther use of the images.
Even the British tabloids, usually voracious in their appetite for picturesof the royal family, declined to publish the images when they were firstcirculated.
In a letter read out in court in May last year, William said the case hadbrought back “particularly painful” memories of the paparazzi hounding hismother, the late princess Diana who was killed in a Paris car crash in 1997while being pursued by photographers.
