Chi magazine publishes 18 topless pictures of Duchess of Cambridge in France

Italian magazine Chi has published 18 controversial pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on holiday.

In a bizarre and at times embarrassing series of interviews its editor described Kate as a “Greek goddess” and Prince William as a “fine figure of man”.

Alfonso Signorini went ahead with the publication despite calls from Buckingham Palace to respect the couple’s privacy.

In a tasteless and trashy article accompanying the photos the magazine also commissioned a plastic surgeon Paolo Santanche to describe the Duchess’s body.

Italian magazine Chi has published 18 controversial pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on holiday

Alfonso Signorini, 48, a former Latin teacher said: “I really don’t see what all the fuss is about. I don’t see how a topless photo in 2012 can create all these scandal and controversy. Kate is a very beautiful woman. What is the problem – and William is also a fine figure of a man.

“All Kate is doing is sunbathing topless like millions of other women. They are a normal couple in love.”

The pictures are the same ones that were used in the French magazine Closer last week and which were taken while the couple were on holiday in a French chateau in Provence.

Prince William and Kate are prepared to devote years to legal battles pursuing those responsible for the topless pictures – or those who publish them.

Sources close to the couple confirmed they were under no illusions about the length of time it could take for their fight to make its way through the Paris courts.

But they insist that the Duke and Duchess will press ahead because they feel so strongly about the invasion of their privacy.

This morning, the couple’s complaint against French Closer magazine – the first to publish the images – is to be heard at the Tribunal de Grande Instance in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.

They have instructed Paris barrister Aurelien Hammelle to call for “the stiffest punishment possible” against the magazine.

St James’s Palace said there were plans to press for criminal charges against the photographer – who has so far remained unidentified.

The Duke and Duchess are also considering action against the Irish edition of the Daily Star, which printed the pictures on Saturday.

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