Prince William: Kate topless pic scandal 'painful' reminder of Diana's death

Prince William called the 2012 publication of topless photos of his wife Princess Kate "shocking" in a prepared statement read in the trial against six individuals involved with the images on Monday, reported the BBC. William said in the statement – read by his lawyer Jean Veil – that the long-lens photographs were "all the more painful" because of "the harassment" that led to his own mother Princess Diana's death in a 1997 car crash.