Court Scandal: The Queen Is Nude

According to ABC News, a magazine in Italy is continuing with its plans to print additional topless photos of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, despite the threat of legal action by the royal family. The photos originally ran in a French magazine, and have also been published by a newspaper in Ireland.

A French court issued an injunction preventing the publication of any further photos and the royal family plans to file a criminal complaint against the photographer. According to the ABC report:

An Italian magazine owned by the country's former premier has published more topless photos of Kate Middleton's sunbathing despite legal action by the royal family to block publication.

The photos, which were first published in the French magazine Closer and later ran in the Irish Daily Star, include at least one shot of the duchess applying sunscreen to herself that did not appear in previous publications.

Chi is also the same magazine that, in 1997, published photos of Princess Diana's dying in a tunnel in Paris after a high-speed car chase with paparazzi that ended in her death at age 36.

Lawyers for the royal family were scheduled to appear today in court in France, where they planned to ask a judge for an injunction to prevent further publications from printing the photos. There are as many as 200 photos of Middleton sunbathing alongside Prince William, according to TMZ.com.

How far is too far?

In my line of work, I sort of HAVE to keep an eye on the tabloids because people are talking about it. But would we talk about it if it weren't so readily available and packaged up by shows like Entertainment Tonight and TMZ and more websites than even I know about? The national news even has to stoop to doing stories on the entertainment industry to keep their ratings up.

What's your opinion? Do you seek out the stories on celebrities or do you wish for the 'old days' when these stories were relegated to the check out lanes at the grocery store? I know I wish it was the old ways again.