Two Sunday newspapers yesterday published pictures of Kate Middleton and her sister Pippa, in company with their mother, Carole, and Prince William, aboard a yacht moored off Ibiza. They were taken in 2006.
The seven photographs, published across two pages of the Mail on Sunday under the headline Perfect Pippa - and the Prince of Belly Flops, showed the sisters, both wearing bikinis, while swimming, diving and sun-bathing. Their mother was also shown in a bikini.
The News of the World carried two shots from the same set on its front page with the headline "Oh buoy it's Pippa... and she's topless inside".
There were six pictures on an inside spread - headlined "So hot she had to be hosed down!" - with one showing Pippa in the act of removing her bikini top.
It also urged readers to visit its website to "see more photos of Pippa sunbathing." These were available for a time (there were links to them from Google and Facebook) but have since been taken down. The story has also been removed from the paper's site.
Well, it could have something to do with the paper becoming aware of the fact that the Middleton family are very likely to make a formal complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about the use of the pictures.
They are expected to argue that publication of these five-year-old images breaches the editors' code of practice by invading the privacy of the Middleton daughters and their mother.