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Papers keep abreast of the Kate situation

Kate Duchess of Windsor
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are on a nine-day tour of south-east Asia and the South Pacific. Photograph: Daniel Munoz/AP

There may be a right royal hue and cry over the photos of a topless Duchess of Cambridge, but the story is certainly selling newspapers. The story makes it to the front page of the Star, Mirror, Sun, Express, the Daily Telegraph and even the Wall Street Journal. (Top marks to the Sun for its splash headline – "Find le Rat.") The Daily Mail keeps its distance and preserves its dignity by keeping a boob story off the front page, but the Daily Star finds it all a bit, well, titillating, devoting the splash and two inside pages to pictures of the Solomon Islanders "who proudly show breasts" to Kate and Wills. Funny that from a paper whose owner has take the Himalayan high ground over the Irish edition of the Daily Star and threatened to close it after it used the topless pics of Kate.

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