A man holds a copy of celebrity magazine Closer, which published topless pictures of Prince William’s wife Catherine/AFP
“In the feminist era, activists used to burn their bras, on holiday Kate does away with hers. And that is her right!”
Warming to his theme, the writer goes on to suggest that Kate is a secret smoker, claiming she was spotted having a puff as she came out of the arrival hall at Marseille airport, where the couple arrived for their break on September 5.
“Image maintenance and rank were not an issue any more. That (the cigarette) was emblematic: this was going to be a break with casual as its theme.”
Critics of the magazine’s decision to publish photos that were turned down by Britain’s tabloids have suggested they represent a tawdry and unwarranted breach of the royal couple’s privacy.
Arguably the most intimate of the photographs published shows the Duchess, shot from behind, bending over to allow her husband to apply suncream to her back while she holds her bikini bottoms half way down her buttocks.
According to writer Cannes, however, such images represent a tasteful celebration of a young couple obviously in love.
“It is simply a wife at ease with her body who has absolutely nothing to hide from her husband”
“There is no question here of alcohol, of strip poker or ambiguous positions,” he writes in a reference to Harry’s Vegas shenanigans.
“It is simply a wife at ease with her body who has absolutely nothing to hide from her husband.”
“Moments of grace, moments of complicity. It’s love in its purest form. Images of happiness without any clouds. Time seems stopped, suspended, voluptuous, like a new Garden of Eden.”
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