Kate and William have won a landmark legal case to block further publication of ‘highly intimate’ topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge.
The Royal couple have 'welcomed' an injunction from a French court preventing the images being spread across the globe by the owners of Closer - the first to
publish the naked pictures.
It is a sensational victory for the Duke and Duchess with the judge today hitting the French magazine with a series of strict punishments for the breach of privacy.
'They welcome the injunction that's been granted, they always believed the law was broken and that they were entitled to their privacy,' a source close to the couple told MailOnline.
The ruling in Paris this morning means:
* Closer France must not print any more copies of its controversial issue and take the topless pictures off its website
* The photos cannot be published in any other magazines or papers in France
* The photographs cannot be sold by them to anyone else in the world
* Within 24 hours the offending pictures must be handed over to the Palace
* Closer would get a 10,000 euro daily fine each time they sell them on or publish them
* They will receive the same fine if they don't hand over all images by midday tomorrow
* Legal fees of 2,000 euros handed to the Duke and Duchess
But the ruling only covers the photos as owned by Closer - not the actual pictures themselves - which means an owner of the photos could in theory sell them on to another publication.
Judges today agreed the magazine must 'give back' the equipment on which the digital photos were stored and banned the images from sale in France or abroad within 24 hours. Legal fees of 2,000 euros were also awarded to the Royal couple.
Closer magazine will now have to pay a 10,000 euros daily fine if photos of the Duchess of Cambridge are re-published or sold on.
The Duke and Duchess have also filed a criminal complaint under France’s privacy laws which could see Closer fined up 36,000 pounds and its editor serve up to a year in prison. And they have filed against ‘persons unknown’, referring to the photographer, who has not yet been identified.
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