Australian magazine Woman's Day has ignored royal family protests and published unauthorised photographs of the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge in a bikini. 

The photos were taken on a Caribbean beach.

Woman's Day magazine has now joined an Italian publication in printing the photos - despite requests from the British royal family not to do so.

The royals say the photos are a breach of privacy.

It's an issue dividing residents in Sydney. 

The British media are yet to publish the photos amid fears of tighter press regulation. Reports say they cost Woman's Day around 155,000 U.S. dollars.