Topless Kate Pics: Are We Being 'Denied'?

[Kerosene]

I will declare immediately that I do not buy so called raunchy magazines etc of naked young ladies, even if I do find the sight very attractive.

Let's face it, there is an absolute frenzy throughout the world, including many in the UK, for tittilating (no pun) snaps of beautiful female celebrities.

Sexist? Maybe. True? Yes. There's normally very few rules - if any - and magazines are virtually given carte blanche to flout any laws of decency in order to satisfy the demand. I include the UK in this from what I've seen.

So why don't our editors just employ the old press mantra, i.e. "Publish and be damned!" just because Kate has married an heir to the throne? Does she not merely come into "celebrity" catalogue, and is therefore 'fair game'?

Or is she suddenly transformed into an 'untouchable' for having married into royalty? Let's face it, had it been Anne or Camilla, apart from any photographer being unhinged in the first place, no one would have batted an eyelid (or opened it) would they?

***PS: Yes, I'm well aware of the 'privacy' / 'intrusion' / 'royal' arguments***

[Kerosene]

BOO,

Very, very negative. If you don't want to join in - then don't.

[joggerjayne]

Does "intimate" mean winkie shots, DT?

[B00]

Negative thoughts? Why? Because I fully agree with their outrage?

[ummmm]

They are not celebrities though. They haven't chosen their careers. They do not need the press to be successful so they shouldn't have to put up with the intrusion into their private lives.

[naomi24]

Duncer, of course they want to court positive publicity. That's their business - and actually I think William, Kate - and Harry - are making a good job of it. I don't think they should be pursuing this through the courts. I think they should treat it with the contempt it deserves.

[naomi24]

Sorry, my last was to Kerosene, not Duncer.

[Kerosene]

Duncer,

No, I was just alluding to those pebbledash specs wearing geeks with the raging acne, heavy breathing, short haircuts slicked back with Brylcreem, shaking hands fumbling inside their crotch, and grubby rainmac.

Ooooppppssss! Must stop admiring myself in the mirror?

[naomi24]

The Jeremy Kyle Show comes to AB News. :o/

[B00]

No geeks on the JK show!

[Duncer]

"No, I was just alluding to those pebbledash specs wearing geeks with the raging acne, heavy breathing, short haircuts slicked back with Brylcreem, shaking hands fumbling inside their crotch, and grubby rainmac."

That's alright then, I never use Brylcreem.

[Kerosene]

naomi,

Don't think they can have it all ways, though? Yes, indeed they do court publicity, after all what's the point of their present tour to south east Asia if it isn't to reinforce the fact that it is the Queen's jubilee year?

However, if they want to be taken seriously, they must act accordingly at all times. Of course they are young and entitled to some fun, but no one causes the negative headlines but them.

Did anyone force Kate to strip off in apparent full view of a public road? Did anyone force Harry to cavort bo**ock naked in Vegas? Or to stumble drunkenly out of nightclubs?

They are in exceptionally privileged positions, are not children anymore, but still seem to be acting very stupidly on occasions.

Anyone blindly defending them should remember that they are not only supposed to be representing Her Majesty, but also Great Britain. I expect better.

[LochNessMonster]

Kate should cross her heart and hope the press don't make any more boobs. They must be bustng to see more.

Looks like she does not need loads of support.

Nessie @-@

[sandyRoe]

I sometimes wonder what kind of advisors these people employ. If Al Fayed's head of security had shipped a car with darkened windows to Paris for the use of his son, William's mother might still be alive.
Somebody might have told John Prescott, the former deputy PM, that playing croquet on the lawn of a country mansion in full view of the public was almost guaranteed to have his pictures splashed all over the front of the right-wing press.
Kate and William should have been told that if they didn't want a particular activity of theirs on the news they shouldn't do it in public.

[ludwig]

// We've all seen the pics, haven't we? //

Nope. Not interested.

[ummmm]

They didn't do it in public. She wasn't topless in the front garden of a 3 bed semi hoping no one could see through the conifers!

[Kerosene]

naomi,

I agree that far too much has been made of this from their point of view. They have now set a very dangerous precedent - is this going to be their continued response to every gaffe they commit? There will be lawsuits flying right, left and centre. I reckon that the only reason we haven't heard of any following Harry's Vegas faux pas is simply because he made an absolute 'See You Next Tuesday' of himself in the first place?

By the way, what was his punishment from his Commanding Officer to this serving soldier? Had that been you or I we'd still be scrubbing the parade square with a toothbrush. Harry? He allegedly is very conveniently sent to Afghanistan - yeah, right! Probably living it up in some oil rich sheik's harem, more like?

[naomi24]

Kerosene, they’re human beings – and they don’t cause the negative headlines. They are caused by those who encourage the gutter press to pursue these people in their private moments by wanting to see such pictures and asking ‘Are we being denied?’ when they don’t. Pathetic!

[cathfromsaron]

i'm sure she has a lovely figure, but it's the invasion of privacy angle i support!

they will be bugging hotel rooms next ...

[Kerosene]

Loch Ness Monster,

Very funny. A bit of levity never hurts.

[Kerosene]

naomi,

Yes, I agree that it is indeed 'pathetic' to feel 'denied' because I don't personally. But there is still this sort of frenzy, as I referred to it, by multitudes of people for this kind of 'scandal'. Or am I wrong in that assertion?

That in itself is of course no excuse, but I still subscribe to the fact that the vast majority of 'celebrities' - God, I hate that word - are so vain that they not only crave publicity but they actually encourage it. And when all is said and done, Wills and Kate are the aforementioned hated word.