Chi, the Italian magazine that has published intimate pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, was criticised six years ago by the royal princes for running a photo of their dying mother.
In July 2006, Chi carried a black-and-white picture of Princess Diana receiving oxygen in the wreckage of a car in the Paris underpass where she died in August 1997. The picture was widely described as "tasteless."
At the time, Prince William and his brother, Harry, issued a statement condemning publication, saying "a low has been reached." The Daily Mail said the princes' highly emotional outburst revealed just how much they had been hurt.
All the British tabloids attacked the publication. "Shame on you," said The Sun, calling it "the lowest of the low". The Daily Mirror's headline said: "Our deep hurt", while the Daily Express described the image as "grotesque."
The magazine's then editor, Umberto Brindani, defended his decision to publish by saying the photograph was "touching" and "tender" but not offensive.
There is an echo of his defiant stance in the reaction of the current editor, Alfonso Signorini, to criticism for publishing 18 pictures of Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, sunbathing topless.
Signorini said he published the 26-page "exclusive" edition in order to show how the royal family in Britain had modernised.
