(edit title) Topless pictures of Kate Middleton Opinions of the Posters on TL Options

[John.Smith]

No... i am not asking about your opinion of what you thought of her lady bits... I am referring to the publishing and taking of the pictures...

Me personally, I think it is distasteful and a gross intrusion of privacy. I am no Royalist by any means, but can a young couple not enjoy some time alone together without some a$$h0le pap taking cheap shots with a long distance lens??

[sometimesinsweden]

Amazed anyone gives a shit.

It's 2012, women have breasts and sometimes like to go topless, so what.

More worried about how conservative and infantile Europe is getting regarding naked women.

[byke]

Definitely wrong, in many senses.
Especially given the distance of telephotos needed to used to achieve such pictures.

[Essingen]

If the positioning identified by the Daily Mail is correct (half a mile from the house) which seems likely judging my poor quality of the pictures, I would say that this was quite wrong and should be subject to severe penalties.

[Svensksmith]

It is an invasion of privacy to be sure, but when you are a celebrity you trade away your privacy for fame and fortune. If you are outside in the nude, unfortunately, you are fair game for these sharks. Now if the photographer was taking pictures of you through a peephole into your private room or residence, that is actionable.

[Puffin]

I feel very sorry for William - after his mother was hounded to her death by the press he now sees the same thing happening to his wife

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

I think that this is the biggest false issue going - just a symptom of the crappy state the world is in, and I say this as no enemy of the monarchy.

If Kate displays her bits where anyone can snap them without tresspassing on private property, I say it's okay, and I can assure you if she does it in my neighbors' backyard, I shall get out my old brownie, and start snapping away.

It's just over-the-top exploitation of what poor Princess Diana had to put up with.

P.s. If anyone wants to take a picture of me nude in my backyard, just let me know, and contact the same neighbors to let you in.

[Shibumi]

I think they have a right to privacy and to not be photographed against their will even if fully clothed. I'm not a fan of royal families at all, but they did not choose celebrity, it has been forced upon them. In my view, this gives them a greater claim to privacy than, say, Lady Gaga.

I also agree with sometimesinsweden. I have witnessed increasingly priggish and puritanical attitudes in the last 2 decades that have me worried that our society is regressing to an infantile and simple-minded state. There are now a LOT fewer topless women on French beaches compared to the 80s & 90s. Today's young French women are reported to be a lot more concerned about not being viewed by their peers as immodest.

They're just boobs people! Half the people you know have 'em! Most of us fed from them when we were born! If you believe in god, that's how s/he made us... so what's the problem?

[Snood]

If Kate displays her bits where anyone can snap them without tresspassing on private property, I say it's okay, and I can assure you if she does it in my neighbors' ba ... (show full quote)

If Kate displays her bits where anyone can snap them without tresspassing on private property, I say it's okay, and I can assure you if she does it in my neighbors' backyard, I shall get out my old brownie, and start snapping away. ... (hide full quote)

The point is though that "anybody" can't just snap the picture. It requires an incredibly expensive lens to get in that close and even then the quality is very poor which means the images are just a tiny crop of the original photo. This is quite clearly an invasion of privacy. Certainly if it were in the UK this would be how it's considered despite the photo being taken from a public place.

As others have pointed out. it's so sad that the calibre of photographer who hounded Princess Diana to her death, are now hounding the young royals. it's sick. The newspapers and magazines should have moral responsibility to not publish these, if the don't publish them then the photographers wont take the photos because it's not profitable to do so.

[Elf_Moon]

In my opinion, the photographer should be labelled a 'pervert' and treated with the same contempt legally an publicly as any other perv who creeps about taking pictures of women naked and on private property.

The photographer is a pervert and the publishers are just silly boys who should really be doing this kind of thing in private- I don't want to know what kind of 'things' they enjoy looking at, thanks... Ewww.

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Kate didn't choose to become a celebrity, these cameras are beyond the financial capability of people like poor me, the media has morals, and people are free not to?

[sometimesinsweden]

In my opinion, the photographer should be labelled a 'pervert' and treated with the same contempt legally an publicly as any other perv who creeps about taking picture ... (show full quote)

In my opinion, the photographer should be labelled a 'pervert' and treated with the same contempt legally an publicly as any other perv who creeps about taking pictures of women naked and on private property.

The photographer is a pervert and the publishers are just silly boys who should really be doing this kind of thing in private- I don't want to know what kind of 'things' they enjoy looking at, thanks... Ewww. ... (hide full quote)

The photographer was a woman.

The publishers print it because it sells copy. It sells copy because we've become a society of sniggering, childish schoolboys and gossiping, bitter women who like to look at pictures of famous people to make themselves feel better. Genuinely don't understand why so many people care what a woman they don't know looks like topless and who is having sex with whom... perhaps we Europeans have very boring lives now...

[Elf_Moon]

Women can be perverts It would be sexist not to punish the woman as severely as a man doing the same thing *nod*

[skogsbo]

I disagree with taking of and publishing, but its a sign of our media times.
Sadly they both need to presume that they are being watched and listened to 24/7 unless physically within a royal or government house. So she needs to keep the baps away for just private times and feeding their kids!

[peecee_uk]

Do you suppose that photographs would NOT have been taken if she was fully clothed?

Pap: "Ah, she has clothes on, let's pack up and go home".

I think that one way or the other, pictures would have been taken in that same location and on the same day regardless.
Just unfortunate I suppose for her that someone had a vantage point that perhaps she was unaware of which meant she was not somewhere as private as she believed.