https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A French court ruled Tuesday that a French celebrity magazine must pay 100,000 euros in damages to Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate over topless photos of the duchess published in 2012. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170905/french-court-to-rule-on-kate-topless-pics Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:11:53 +0200 french-court-to-rule-on-kate-topless-pics Six media representatives will go on trial Tuesday over the publication of long-lens photographs of Prince William's wife Kate sunbathing topless in France that caused a scandal in Britain. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170502/trial-over-kates-topless-photos-starts-in-france Tue, 02 May 2017 12:58:36 +0200 trial-over-kates-topless-photos-starts-in-france The trial of six media representatives over the publication of topless photos of Prince William's wife Catherine in France that caused a scandal in Britain was on Tuesday delayed until May. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170103/trial-over-topless-kate-snaps-delayed-by-four-months Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:11:17 +0100 trial-over-topless-kate-snaps-delayed-by-four-months Six reporters, photographers and media chiefs are to be tried in France for invasion of privacy over topless photos of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge published in 2012, judicial sources said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161026/six-to-be-tried-in-france-over-topless-kate-photos Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:38:02 +0200 six-to-be-tried-in-france-over-topless-kate-photos It appears the French are clearly missing having a royal family of their own. At least that's the conclusion we could draw from the publication of the most searched terms in France throughout 2013, which threw up some interesting results. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131218/french-google-search-show-royal-baby-fever Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:02:00 +0100 french-google-search-show-royal-baby-fever French diet king Pierre Dukan has been given a ban and heavily criticized by France’s medical board for prescribing weight-loss pill Mediator, which has been linked to hundreds of deaths, to his patients and then lying about it, it emerged this week. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130709/french-diet-guru-gets-ban-over-deadly-pill Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:28:00 +0200 french-diet-guru-gets-ban-over-deadly-pill A French judge will lead a probe into how topless photos were obtained of Prince William's wife Catherine and will seek to identify the photographer, sources close to the inquiry said Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120928/french-launch-full-investigation-into-topless-kate-pics Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:59:00 +0200 french-launch-full-investigation-into-topless-kate-pics French magazine Closer on Monday said its editor Laurence Pieau had received death threats for publishing pictures of Prince William's wife Catherine sunbathing topless. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120924/french-editor-sent-death-threats-over-kate-pics Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:40:00 +0200 french-editor-sent-death-threats-over-kate-pics French glossy Closer commissioned an Irish photographer to take the topless shots of Prince William's wife Catherine and can make a fortune selling them, celebrity photographer Pascal Rostain said Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120921/french-mag-snapped-kate-with-irish-photographer Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:33:00 +0200 french-mag-snapped-kate-with-irish-photographer The French magazine that published topless photos of Prince William's wife Catherine handed over files with the images Wednesday to the couple's representatives, a source close to the matter said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120920/french-magazine-hands-over-topless-kate-pictures Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:43:00 +0200 french-magazine-hands-over-topless-kate-pictures US Internet auction giant eBay is banning sales of copies of French magazine Closer that feature photos of Prince William's wife Catherine topless, the website said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120918/ebay-bans-sale-of-french-magazine-closer Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:39:00 +0200 ebay-bans-sale-of-french-magazine-closer A French court on Tuesday banned Closer magazine from any further publication or resale of topless pictures of Prince William's wife Catherine. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120918/french-judge-bans-topless-kate-pictures Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:34:00 +0200 french-judge-bans-topless-kate-pictures French prosecutors said Tuesday they had begun investigating whether a gossip magazine and a photographer broke the law by publishing topless pictures of Prince William's wife Catherine. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120918/criminal-probe-begins-over-topless-kate-pictures Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:24:00 +0200 criminal-probe-begins-over-topless-kate-pictures Britain's royal family takes to the courts Monday to try to stop the spread of topless photos of Prince William's wife Catherine, but an Italian magazine plans to devote 26 pages to the grainy snaps. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120917/royals-head-to-french-courts-over-kate-photos Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:05:43 +0200 royals-head-to-french-courts-over-kate-photos Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine on Friday launched a lawsuit against French magazine Closer for breaching their right to privacy by printing topless pictures of her, sources told AFP. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120914/william-and-kate-sue-french-mag Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:12:00 +0200 william-and-kate-sue-french-mag France has one of the world's toughest privacy laws on paper, but the legislation is effectively toothless because the fines for breaching it are miniscule, legal experts and journalists say. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120914/experts-french-privacy-laws-toothless Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:57:48 +0200 experts-french-privacy-laws-toothless Prince William and his wife Catherine reacted with fury Friday after a French magazine printed topless photos of her, saying it evoked painful memories of press harassment of William's mother Diana. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120914/william-and-kates-fury-over-topless-photos Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:11:00 +0200 william-and-kates-fury-over-topless-photos