A Swedish celebrity gossip magazine published topless photographs of the wife of Prince William, the former Kate Middleton, on Wednesday and a Danish sister journal followed suit on Thursday.
The pictures were published despite a decision by a French court on Tuesday to ban gossip magazine Closer from further publishing the photographs and ordering it to hand the pictures over to the couple.
The injunction granted to the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge, as the couple are formally known, also prevents Closer from selling the pic-tures to other media.
But Carina Lofkvist said her magazine, Se och Hor (See and Hear), had bought the pictures last Friday. The magazine published 11 pictures of the royal couple on holiday, of which four show the duchess topless.
"They are very cute pictures of a loving relationship," Lofkvist said.
The pictures were taken while the couple were on holiday in a chateau in southern France and show the duchess slipping off her bikini top, relaxing on a sun lounger and at one point pulling down the back of her bikini bottoms.
Buckingham Palace has called the photo spread a "grotesque" invasion of the couple's privacy.
