Palace warns paparazzi over sneaky George snaps
In a letter issued today, the palace said photographers were using surveillance techniques to try to get pictures of the young royals.
On one occasion last week a photographer set up a ‘hide’ in his car as he staked out a children’s play area.
Other incidents have included:
• photographers pursuing cars leaving family homes
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Hide Ad• using other children to draw Prince George into view in playgrounds
• hiding on private property in fields and woodland around the Duke and Duchess’s home in Norfolk
• hiding in sand dunes on a rural beach to take photos of Prince George playing with his grandmother
In the letter, Kensington Palace Communications Secretary Jason Knauf said: “It is of course upsetting that such tactics - reminiscent as they are of past surveillance by groups intent on doing more than capturing images - are being deployed to profit from the image of a two-year-old boy.
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Hide Ad“In a heightened security environment such tactics are a risk to all involved.
“The worry is that it will not always be possible to quickly distinguish between someone taking photos and someone intending to do more immediate harm.”