The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were considering their options yesterday as the Danish magazine published more topless pictures of Kate.
Kate and William are on their way home from a nine-day Diamond Jubilee tour of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific but their trip has been largely overshadowed by the media frenzy over the images.
The royal couple is understood to be considering a variety of measures to prevent further distribution of the topless photos.
A St James’s Palace source said: “All options are under consideration at the moment.”
The royal couple on Tuesday succeeded in getting an injunction from a French court which has stopped France’s Closer magazine – which was first to publish the pictures – from printing further intimate images of the Duchess or selling them.
The royals are also awaiting a decision from France’s criminal prosecutors about whether they will bring criminal charges against the photographer who took the pictures.
The Palace reissued a statement it made when the Italian magazine Chi announced over the weekend it would publish the topless photos of Kate.
“As we’ve said, we will not be commenting on potential legal action concerning the alleged intended publication of the photos save to say that all proportionate responses will be kept under review,” it said.
Meanwhile, police in France investigating the publication of images in the French edition of Closer are gathering information on the magazine and its employees.
The move is part of the opening of their criminal probe into whether the pictures were an invasion of privacy.
A French court ordered police to obtain information on Closer staff after the royal couple filed the criminal complaint on Monday.
Marie-Christine Daubigney, assistant prosecutor for the Nanterre court, outside Paris, said she has instructed police to get the names of some Closer employees, including the journalist who wrote the article.
She said she has not told police to find the photographer who took the pictures because that will be part of a later investigation.
Daubigney denied as “completely untrue” French media reports that police raided Closer magazine headquarters.