@Douglas Ford [deleted] Doug, Don't you think that Harry photo was staged? Intended to provoke, to make Harry appear a rascal? What I noticed about those photos was how well they protected the identity of the women Harry was with. I felt that required at least some careful editing if not outright scripting, maybe with the girls being paid actresses. Well, maybe they weren't actresses but you know what I mean. I think John is right that Royals must expect to be photographed even when on holiday on the other side of France on your own private balcony .. and I think both William and Kate DID expect to be photographed and videotaped. I think they staged the exposure. You must admit it is a covert way of thumbing their noses at all the demands Kate wear the hijab. Totally within her legal rights to sunbathe nude on her own private balcony in a country where women do that all the time, then the next day, Kate was videotaped wearing hijab, then a few days later, being received by a group of topless dancers. We don't really want the Royals to support that ideology that demands women show no more than a finger, do we? Don't we want them to support freedom, regardless of whether it offends?

@Douglas Ford [deleted] Doug says Kate is "no beauty" ... given taste is individual and subjective, are you kidding? She is a gorgeous woman. Compliant, submissive, maybe not everyone's "type", but objectively, she is a real classic beauty.

I like her even though, personally, I wouldn't want my privacy breached on the front pages like hers was. But Royals are different. Protected more than the rest of us. They have the back-up of all the world's Royals not just the British public and their associates in all the world's governments. They observe rules of diplomacy, such as wearing hijab and accepting what many consider insults including not shaking hands with Kate because she is considered, under Islam, to be unclean. Royals know they can't influence opinion about women's rights in direct debate with other cultural leaders but they know they can influence the public all over the world with photos that show Kate in a free and equal role with her husband, naked and rubbing his back out in the sunshine on her balcony where she knows she is being videotaped, or at least that she likely is. She knows that, unlike the common person, she can bathe nude, have it widely publicized that she supports such behaviour choices, and never suffer any negative consequence and that in fact, she can go to court almost the next day, like it was planned that way, and receive compensation from the photographer, like the business deal it was for the cost of doing business. No criminal charges because it wasn't a crime but a marketing and propaganda ruse.