Prince William and his spouse, Kate Middleton, are taking authorized motion in opposition to high-society journal Tatler over a “merciless, sexist and woman-shaming” cowl story concerning the duchess, in keeping with a report.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have already despatched authorized letters to the journal demanding its profile of Kate be faraway from the web, the Mail on Sunday newspaper mentioned.
The story, headlined “Catherine the Nice” on the quilt of the journal’s newest challenge, remained on-line Sunday.
Whereas it begins out flattering — suggesting the duchess is now “one of the influential girls on the earth” — Kensington Palace has already blasted it for a swathe of “inaccuracies and false representations.”
Insiders instructed the UK paper that the royal couple have been significantly incensed on the suggestion the duchess was feeling exhausted and trapped by an elevated workload after Megxit.
They have been additionally infuriated on the “disgusting” line about her being “perilously skinny,” evaluating it to consuming problems suffered by William’s late mom, Princess Diana.
“That’s such a particularly merciless and wounding barb,” a royal supply instructed the UK paper.
“It’s sexist and woman-shaming at its very worst.”
The supply insisted that the duke and duchess have been solely taking authorized motion as a result of the article was “stuffed with lies.”
“It’s ironic that the Royals’ favourite journal is being trashed by them,” the supply famous.
“Tatler might imagine it’s immune from motion because it’s learn by the Royals and on each espresso desk in each sensible dwelling, nevertheless it makes no distinction.”
After Kensington Palace launched its uncommon assault on the “inaccuracies and false misrepresentations,” Tatler’s Editor-in-Chief, Richard Dennen, insisted he “stands behind the reporting.”
Tatler didn’t reply to the Mail on Sunday on its newest report. Kensington Palace declined to remark, the paper mentioned.