DISCOM‘BOOB’ULATED:Topless tribeswomen greet a giggling, bashful Kate Middleton to Marau in the Solomon Islands amid the duchess’ photo embarrassment (bauergriffinonline.com)
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DISCOM‘BOOB’ULATED: Topless tribeswomen greet a giggling, bashful Kate Middleton to Marau in the Solomon Islands amid the duchess’ photo embarrassment. (
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She’s trying to make the breast of the situation.
As the scandal around her topless photos swirled, a red-faced Kate Middleton could only giggle when greeted by a gaggle of bare-chested tribal women on the remote Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, where she and Prince William are touring.
The 30-year-old Duchess of Cambridge laughed off the tribeswomen’s innocent presentation to her of a nude female sculpture, too — even as lawyers for the royal family yesterday went to court in France to fight to keep the racy sunbathing photos of her from future publication.
Kate and William’s “anger has subsided,” a royal source told People magazine.
“The royal-family motto is to stay calm and carry on,” the source added.
Their lawyer, Aurelien Hamelle, filed a criminal suit in France to stop the French gossip magazine Closer from further publishing any pictures of Middleton without her bikini top.
The magazine had defiantly published a five-page spread Friday featuring the photos under the headline: “Oh my God! Sex and sun in Provence!”
Closer’s Italian sister magazine, Chi, then published a 26-page spread of Middleton exposed yesterday. Both publications are owned by disgraced, sex-scandal-tainted former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The Irish Daily Star also published 13 photos Saturday that had run in Closer.
Calling the photos a “grotesque” invasion of privacy, the royal couple is demanding thousands of dollars in damages, as well as potentially up to a year in jail time for both the photographer and the editor of Closer.
“The Duchess of Cambridge is a young woman, not an object,” Hamelle said yesterday.
“I ask you to put yourself in the place of her husband, Prince William . . . and the place of her parents.”
French female shutterbug Valerie Suau is accused of snapping the photos with a long-range lens from a road about a half-mile away from the couple’s private chateau near where Suau lives.
Suau — whose last name is pronounced “sewer” — has been “in hiding” since she was named in the court papers, according to the Daily Mail.
The French court is set to rule today on the royal family’s request for an injunction.