No man would be comfortable with his wife’s naked breasts being plastered across the news stands and the internet. Well, not unless he’s married to a Page 3 girl.

So Prince William’s furious reaction to the publication of paparazzo pictures of Kate topless in French, Irish and Italian newspapers and magazines is entirely understandable.

The British Press has rightly taken the view that the princess had a reasonable expectation of privacy when she was sunbathing beside a pool at Lord Linley’s chateau in the South of France.