Se Og Hor: Kate Middleton Bottomless Published by Danish Mag, Hits the Web After Topless Photo Scandal
Danish magazine Se Og Hor has published bottomless photos of Kate Middleton. The bottomless photos which shows the Duchess without her bikini bottom has made its way on the internet, with photos being available on sites such as Egotastic.
Se Og Hor Editor Kim Henningsen does not regret publishing the photos. She told Belfast Telegraph: "It's a set of unique photos from an A-class celebrity. We are a leading gossip magazine in Denmark, and it is my job to publish them. If the British royal family want to sue us, then it will happen then and we'll deal with it."
Henningsen announced last week that the magazine will publish some more nude photos of Kate so residents in Denmark can see "what these photos are all about."
The paper is the fifth magazine to run the topless photos of the duchess, defying rules for European tabloids to not publish pictures of royals taken during their personal time. The rules were announced in August when images taken of Prince Harry while completely naked in Las Vegas were published on the celebrity gossip website TMZ.
When Henningsen was asked if she would have held the same regard for Denmark's future queen Princess Mary and run the topless photos of her, the editor took a jab at Middlton when she replied, "Mary knows what to do as a royal. She would never be on pictures like this," reported Showbiz Spy.
"It's not the British Royal Palace who decide what Se og Hor should publish. That's my job," Henningsen added. "It is always relevant for us when a duchess and the future Queen of England is topless. If the British royal family want to sue us, then it will happen and we'll deal with it."
St. James's Palace told Showbiz Spy they were aware of Se og Hoer publishing the intimate photos and they were seeking legal advice.
The Swedish edition of the same magazine, Se och Hoer, has also published the topless images of the duchess in an 11-page spread. Se og Hoer and Se och Hoer are both owned by Denmark-based Allure Media.
"This is nothing unusual, these are quite nice pictures if you compare with other celebrity pictures that we publish all the time," the Swedish magazine's editor, Carina Loefkvist, told BBC.
Loefkvist said the company bought the images from "from photographers and photo agencies, the way we always do" and "before everything erupted" last Friday, Sept. 14.
Several European magazines violated the privacy of the royal couple when they published a slew of topless photos taken during their private vacation in the south of France.
On Sept. 14, French gossip magazine Closer published topless photos of Middleton sunbathing with her husband Prince William. The exclusive photos were taken by a photographer nearly a kilometer away while they were relaxing at a private house..
The pictures have been deemed "grotesque and totally unjustifiable" by the shocked royal family, and have saddened the Duchess of Cambridge.
The royal couple won an injunction against Closer in France on Sept.18. A court order has been issued to the French magazine, which prevents it from running the photos of Middleton both online and offline.
A criminal complaint has been filed against the photographer who took the shots.
