By Alexander Felton, CNN
updated 4:56 AM EDT, Tue September 18, 2012
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Irish Daily Star editor suspended pending investigation into republishing of photos
- French judge is expected to issue a ruling on civil complaint by 6 a.m. ET
- William and Catherine have also filed a criminal complaint in France
Honiara, Solomon Islands (CNN) -- The board of a newspaper that published topless photos of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge will meet Tuesday to consider closing the paper, it said.
The Irish Daily Star published the photos on Saturday and the meeting comes after an editor of the newspaper was suspended pending an investigation.
And as the newspaper pondered its future, a legal battle brews pitting the royal family against a French magazine that initially published the topless photos.
A French prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into the incident, the Nanterre Prosecutor's office said Tuesday.
The move comes a day after the royal family filed a criminal complaint seeking invasion of privacy charges against the magazine and possibly the photographer, a palace spokeswoman said.
The royals have also aggressively pursued a civil remedy.
A French judge is expected to issue a ruling by 6 a.m. EST Tuesday on a civil complaint that has been lodged, reporters from CNN affiliates ITN and BFM have said.
The photos of Catherine sunbathing are more about invasion of privacy rather than nudity, royal biographer Christopher Andersen said.
William and his brother, Prince Harry, still blame the media for the 1997 death of their mother, Princess Diana, in a traffic accident as her driver fled paparazzi, Andersen said. French investigators concluded the driver of the car Diana was traveling in lost control while he was intoxicated.
The royal family is concerned about similar invasions, particularly if William and Catherine have a child, Andersen said.
At a Monday civil court proceeding in Paris, lawyers for the royals asked for damages and a court order to prevent the photos from being published again. They also want existing photos taken offline, a palace spokesman said.
Lawyer Aurelien Hamelle denounced the published photos in court Monday calling them an infringement of privacy, CNN affiliates reported.
"It is a scene of married life, intimate, personal, that has nothing to do on a magazine" Hamelle said.
Chi, an Italian magazine, put out a special edition Monday with 26 pages of photos of William and Catherine on vacation.
As editors at the French magazine Closer did last week, Chi executives defended publishing the photos despite the furor from London.
"It is a story worth publishing in an extraordinary edition because it shows in a natural light the everyday life of a very famous contemporary young couple in love," Editor-in-chief Alfonso Signorini said in a statement.
Chi and Closer are owned by the Mondadori publishing company, which is headed by Marina Berlusconi, a daughter of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
CNN's Max Foster, Per Nyberg, Laura Smith-Spark and Hada Messia contributed to this report.
18 Sep, 2012
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