The American tabloid magazine Star faces royal condemnation Wednesday after it published photos of a pregnant Kate Middleton clad in a revealing bikini while holidaying withon Mustique, a small private island that is part of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. 
 
 In a shock move, the publication splashed the contentious images across its cover under the headline “Exclusive Royal Photos: Kate Shows Off Baby Bump!”, despite St. James Palace releasing a statement Tuesday saying it was “disappointed” that the pictures had been printed in Italian tabloid Chi. 
 
 The monarchy called the images “a clear breach of the couple’s right to privacy.” (Click to Chi’s parent website, Mondadori.com, to see the magazine cover; the magazine is the same Italian tabloid that published a 26-page spread of Kate’s topless photos last September.) 
 
 According to royal watcher, the publication of the images will “devastate” William and Kate, with the pair having hoped legal action against French publication Closer last year would scare off such behavior. 
 
 “The fact that a photographer has been able to get close enough to take these new pictures will be a huge blow for privately owned Mustique, which has thrived on its reputation as a papparazzi-free enclave,” Sykes wrote on The Daily Beast. 
 
 He added, “Mustique is as famous for its white-sand beaches as it is for the omertà that ensures that very little celebrity tittle-tattle ever makes it off the island. The Mustique Company boasts that it is ‘dedicated to protecting the island’s privacy.'” 
 
 [inlinecmp pos=”left” id=”0″ type=”14291822:0″]”As in previous years, the island will have been more or less locked down for the royal visit, and other guests at the Caribbean hotspot will have faced a range of (futile) strictures to protect the Middletons’ privacy, including a ban on using the souped-up golf buggies (or “mules”) that are the main form of transport on the island.” 
 
 The mom-to-be was reportedly staying at a $25,000-a-week villa with her husband, while her family — including her parents and younger sister Pippa — was also vacationing in a nearby property. 
 
 The Duchess has been keeping a low profile since her pregnancy was announced last December after she was hospitalized with severe morning sickness. She is set to make her second official appearance since the baby news at a London charity on Feb. 19. 
 
 St. James Palace — Middleton and William’s official residence — has yet to say if legal action will be taken against any magazine that publishes the baby bump photos. 
 
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 Banned from working for American network TV channels, Pippa has been allowed to write for a British supermarket's in-house magazine 
 
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 In one of the most bizarre cases of royal selling-out ever seen, Pippa Middleton has signed a deal to pen a column – entitled, excruciatingly, “Pippa’s Friday Night Feasts” - for a British supermarket’s in-house magazine. 
 
 True, the supermarket in question is Waitrose, Britain’s poshest, where Tony Blair used to get his groceries, but still. 
 
 Of course, Royals have been publishing books for donkey’s years, and while the occasional comment piece by Prince Charles about where he gets his suits is unlikely to provoke any ire, this is a slightly different deal, and one which will raise eyebrows at the palace, where the young royals have been noted for their Olympian self-control in accepting no freebies. 
 
 Pippa was banned by the palace from promoting her recent book on entertaining, and forced to decline an opportunity to be an NBC special correspondent. 
 
 
 
 Waitrose magazine makes a poor consolation prize indeed. 
 
 
 
 But the Royalist has some sympathy. What else is Pippa supposed to do? Her association with the royal family has made her virtually unemployable in any normal job. At least as a writer she can work from home and make an income while she waits to be whisked off her feet by a rich young lord. 
 
 You can almost hear the phone conversation, can’t you? “Well, it’s alright for you, Kate…” 
 
 The new column inevitably raises the unwelcome prospect of Pippa being ‘news’ every month, as each time her recipes are produced they will likely be parsed by the British media for references to her family which can be spun into stories. 
 
 The columns are also likely to be pilloried online, proving a gift for spoofers like @pippatips, who was fast out of the traps with: "Supermarkets do not wear capes and rescue people, but they are good places to buy groceries and pick up helpful magazines." 
 
 
 
 Her column will first appear in the April issue of the title, on sale in Waitrose from 28th March, and will feature casual dining ideas and recipes. 
 
 William Sitwell, editor of Waitrose Kitchen, said, “Pippa will be an excellent contributor to the magazine, bringing with her a wealth of experience of entertaining, gained in part from working at her family's party business. Readers will love her relaxed and easy entertaining ideas which will help with the preparation for all sorts of occasions”.
– It must be tough to be Pippa Middleton: Your sister is basically a princess, currently carrying the future king or queen of England in her beloved womb, while you're stuck ... writing for a supermarket's in-house magazine. Yes, party planner Pippa, whose book bombed, has a new gig writing a column for Waitrose Kitchen, the mag put out by Waitrose (a grocery store that, Tom Sykes informs us in the Daily Beast, is "Britain's poshest"). The first "Pippa's Friday Night Feasts" column appears in the April issue, out next month. Sykes guesses the palace is less than pleased with the idea. Turns out Pippa was barred from promoting her aforementioned book, as well as forced to turn down a job offer from NBC, by the palace; at this point she's "virtually unemployable," Sykes writes. Twitter satire account Pippa Tips is already having fun with Middleton's new gig, posting, "Supermarkets do not wear capes and rescue people, but they are good places to buy groceries and pick up helpful magazines." (Care more about Kate than Pippa? Click to see her bikini-clad royal baby bump.)