Topless Kate

I totally agree - stop printing the tabloid filth & you will stop the paparazzi in their tracks.

TBH i couldnt care less who sleeps with who & when they are drunk in the streets or caught wearing no knickers - used to buy a newspaper everyday until i realised i was helping to line the pockets of these idiots !

I'm no more into royalty than I am into the Olympics, after all no one is better than myself, only my equal. The only time I ever bow is to either do up my shoe laces or pick up one of my cats. I'm no more convinced that this marriage will last any longer than her father in laws did after all commoners and royalty just don't gel together.
As to the subject of her being topless, well firstly it's not as though she has got much on top to start with, secondly when it comes to the naked body the British really are still stuck in the Victorian time warp of when everything had to be covered up...... Who cares? We all know what the human body looks like, it's no big deal it only becomes something of nothing when someone wants to make it pornographic and smutty. I don't get what the big deal is all about and what I get even less is, why if Kate dosen't like her breasts to be plastered in the paper is she happy to pose with women, who like me couldn't really care less about who sees their breasts and actually do have something up top worth showing

Can i bring this back to my original point, perhaps i didnt make it clear -

Is it right that people make a living by snooping on people and taking photos with long range lens cameras? My point was invasion of privacy, which regardless of class, wealth, fame or anything else EVERYONE has a right to privacy.

I have no interest in Kate, any more than i did about Max Moseley doing things with alleged prostitutes 2 or 3 years ago, but it seems that if its alleged Public Interest the press seem to think its ok to print whatever they feel like and hide behind the "freedom of press" line.

We could go off at a tangent about the News of the World & the phone hacking scandal - where do you draw the line at a headline news story & how far should a reporter go to get that story?

When it comes to invading another person's private life, its never going to change. As long as there is money involved, its going to continue. And that's where I think it all goes pear shaped. Everyone does have a right to privacy, but at the same time everyone has the right to know what goes on in their country. So while I wouldn't stand with the paparazzi going all out to get a shot of someone, I would say that there are some areas where people need to know about things. Especially if these people are leaders, and especially if their own actions contradict their "preachings". (IMHO)

All a storm in a teacup is my 5 pence worth

Rightly or wrongly there's a big demand for celeb gossip or titillation, and a huge business built around it. If you are in the spotlight, then privacy or no privacy, you will be a target for tabloid journalism. How the attention is handled depends on how high up the celeb ladder you are and how expensive your PR team is. A good PR team will spin it into positive publicity, and something like this is will be quickly overshadowed by some political gaff, natural disaster or another country going bust.

Mind you, I think Barney could be bringing in some more traffic as we re-optimise the thread for big breasted women

There is no privacy in this country, that stopped when they plastered cctv in every shopping mall, high street, schools and so forth.... We all have our privacy infringed upon by big brother and will continue to do so. And whats good for us mere mortals is good enough for everyone else, oh yes not forgetting the satelite cameras above our heads.... I don't see what the issue is and as technology improves the less privacy we shall have. I don't see why someone should expect anymore privacy than I get when carrying out my daily business.. I think the average person in Central London will be snapped around 200 times or more per day. And did they ask for my approval? Did they heck...

Take your point Barney .. but wouldn't it be nice if newspapers actually printed news?

I think by and large the newspapers do print some worthwhile good articles, especially where corruption is involved and they out those at the top preaching to the rest of us how to lead our lives, when leading completly the opposite themselves. Newspapers need to make money, whether you like it or not sex sells, most companies will use some floosie to sell their product that's how it works. So when news of this topless photo came out, probably the top search term on Google over the weekend would have been 'topless photo kate' because that is what people or rather the majority of people would have wanted to see, I did and when I saw them, thought is that it! Not really worth making a fuss about. If you marry into this family and are susidised by the taxpayer expect to be hounded and photographed, because past history states that will happen regardless of what people think. After all if people didn't buy it, there wouldn't be a market for it...

Thats my point partly though - yes they are photographed every second they are outside, and yes she decided to take that role on the moment she started a relationship with the Prince but they still deserve to have down time and have private time and we should grant them that - what right does that photographer have to use a long lens camera to snoop on that privacy?

Im not debating they are funded by tax payers, one could argue they bring in revenue to the Country but thats a whole different issue to that of Privacy Law

When I was in the forces, you were on duty 24/7 seven days a week even if you were on home leave. When I signed the dotted line I knew exactly what my commitments were and what was expected. If Liz and Philip were sunbathing naked at Sandringham and sharing a line of coke, I would say that it was in the public interest to know, whether it was in their down time or not. If they do not want to be caught with their pants down or in this case bra off, then they hand back the golden spoon that feeds them just like Edward VIII did, the only so called royal who stood up for what he wanted yet he got slated for it. Top man in my books...