Announcing a world exclusive,
Closer magazine invited readers on its website to pick up he new edition to
enjoy "the photos that the world can't wait to see; the Duchess of Cambridge
topless on a guesthouse terrace".
Splashed on the front cover and
inside on five pages, many of the grainy photos feature what appears to be the
young couple together with Kate wearing just the bottoms of a black and white
bikini.
The pictures were sure to
create a worldwide media frenzy less than a month after the publication of
nude photos of William's brother Harry.
The snaps were taken on the
terrace of the Autet Chateau in the southern French region of Provence where
William and Kate were said to have been on vacation last week.
The magazine said the chateau
was owned by Viscount Linley, the son of Queen Elizabeth's late sister Princess
Margaret.
The couple are currently in
Malaysia and a source travelling with them said that "their royal
highnesses were saddened to learn about the alleged photos".
"The incident, if true,
turns the clock back 15 years," the source said, referring to the intense
media attention on William's late mother Diana, who died in a car crash while
fleeing paparazzi in Paris in 1997.
The royal source added that the
monarchy was investigating the authenticity of the photos and would then
"make a decision about what to do".
The story was picked up in the
British media on Friday, less than a month after the publication of naked pictures
of Harry in a Las Vegas hotel.
Britain's younger royals are
touring the globe throughout 2012 as part of celebrations marking the 60-year
reign of William's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
They are now on a nine-day trip
that started in Singapore. They arrived in Malaysia on Thursday, and will move
on this weekend to the Solomon Islands and later Tuvalu.
On Friday, they will make a
highly-anticipated public appearance at a park in central Kuala Lumpur before
visiting a nature conservation site in the Borneo jungle Saturday.
But the photo row threatened to
overshadow the tour, which was meant to help introduce the couple overseas
after their pomp-filled marriage last year.
The April 2011 ceremony was
watched by up to two billion TV viewers around the world, sparking fresh
excitement in Britain's monarchy after years of crisis.
Last month a US celebrity
gossip website published grainy camera-phone pictures of William's brother
Harry cavorting naked with a mystery woman during a wild party in a Las Vegas
hotel suite.
Harry, the third in line to the
throne and a military helicopter pilot, has since been deployed to Afghanistan
for a second tour of duty.
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