An Australian magazine has published photographs of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge strolling on a beach during their honeymoon in the Seychelles.
By Jonathan Pearlman in Sydney
11:27AM BST 11 Jul 2012
The sixteen photographs, which appear in the latest issue of Woman's Day
magazine, include images showing the Prince in floral swimming shorts and
his wife in a black bikini.
The location of the 10-day honeymoon, North Island in the Seychelles, was
known to several British media outlets but they had promised not to publish
photographs.
It is not clear how Women's Day, a monthly tabloid magazine, acquired the
photographs of the royal honeymoon, which appeared to be taken with a long
lens.
The magazine featured a cover photo of the couple holding hands on a beach and
included 15 more images inside.
The headline – "Our Island Paradise" – prompted criticism that
the magazine appeared to be suggesting the couple had endorsed publication
of the images.
The magazine's executive editor did not return The Daily Telegraph's calls.
The royal couple had insisted on privacy for the honeymoon.
A spokesman for the Duke and Duchess said: "It's a very private moment and we would ask people to respect that privacy, as we did at the time."
Australian tabloid magazines have previously published controversial photographs of the royals, clearing the way for the British media to publish.
Most famously, New Idea magazine, then owned by Rupert Murdoch, scooped the world in 1993 with publication of the so-called Camillagate transcripts – the intimate phone conversations between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, with whom he was then having an affair.
The same magazine broke a British media blackout in 2008 to reveal that Prince Harry was fighting with the British Army in Afghanistan – a story that prompted army chiefs to send him home.
The royal couple had insisted on privacy for the honeymoon.
A spokesman for the Duke and Duchess said: "It's a very private moment and we would ask people to respect that privacy, as we did at the time."
Australian tabloid magazines have previously published controversial photographs of the royals, clearing the way for the British media to publish.
Most famously, New Idea magazine, then owned by Rupert Murdoch, scooped the world in 1993 with publication of the so-called Camillagate transcripts – the intimate phone conversations between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, with whom he was then having an affair.
The same magazine broke a British media blackout in 2008 to reveal that Prince Harry was fighting with the British Army in Afghanistan – a story that prompted army chiefs to send him home.
