(15 Sep 2012) SHOTLIST
AP Television
Paris, 14 September 2012
1. Various of French Closer magazine masthead with headline reading "World Exclusive"
2. Wide pan from noticeboard with Closer covers to Closer Editor-in-Chief Laurence Pieau sitting at desk
3. Mid of older Closer covers on noticeboard
4. Set up of Pieau talking on phone and looking at computer
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Laurence Pieau, Editor-in-Chief , French Closer:
"For me those pictures are not shocking. Just beautiful couple, in love couple, in the south of France and Kate is the girl next door, that's all."
6. Pan of people working in Closer office
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurence Pieau, Editor-in-Chief, French Closer:
"We also talk a lot about the photos of Harry and these photos of Harry were shocking. And they were published the British press. These photos of Harry inside of a hotel were indeed shocking. This is not at all the case with these photos. I think we have to de-dramatise all of this. This is a young couple in love tanning on a terrace and we really have to emphasise, this is a terrace that looks out on a road on which thousands of cars pass each day. So I believe that if there is a question to ask concerning these photos, it is more about security rather than media frenzy - there was no harassment to take these pictures."
8. Cutaway of Closer office
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurence Pieau, Editor-in-Chief, Closer:
"(On alleged comparison with treatment of Princess Diana) This is the terrace of a hotel. Legally it is a private place. But this terrace looked out on a public road and they were visible from the road. So they were not particularly trying to hide themselves. They arrived on a public flight, British Airways, a lot of people saw them in Marseille airport, there weren't dozens of photographers chasing them, that wasn't the case."
10. Cutaway of people working at Closer seated inside office
11. Cutaway of Pieau
STORYLINE
The editor of the French magazine that published what appeared to be topless photographs of British Prince William's wife Catherine said she does not think the pictures are shocking.
Britain's royal family said they are suing Closer magazine, which published the photos of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
The magazine's Editor-in-Chief, Laurence Pieau, said she did not find the pictures shocking.
"Just beautiful couple, in love couple, in the south of France and Kate is the girl next door, that's all," she said.
No major British publication carried the photos, including Rupert Murdoch's top-selling tabloid The Sun, which last month ran photos of a naked Prince Harry cavorting in a Las Vegas hotel room.
Pieau said the two sets of photos were very different.
"These photos of Harry were shocking. And they were published in the British press," she said.
Closer magazine published the blurry images of Kate and William in an edition which hit French newsstands on Friday, and insisted that it had not invaded the couple's privacy.
Pieau said the photos showed the couple on a terrace "that looks out on a road on which thousands of cars pass each day."
"I believe that if there is a question to ask concerning these photos, it is more about security rather than media frenzy - there was no harassment to take these pictures," she added.
The images are the first to show the likely future queen partially nude.
The palace had earlier called the publication of the images a "grotesque" abuse, and likened the case to the hounding of William's mother Princess Diana by European paparazzi.
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