Paper Sorry, Donates $180,000 : Queen Snaps at Snapshot
Queen Elizabeth has won an apology and a $180,000 contribution to charity from the British newspaper The Sun over its publication of a stolen Royal Family photograph.
“Sorry!” the racy tabloid wrote in a banner headline today.
It said it had reached an agreement with the queen’s lawyers to settle her legal action for breach of copyright and would distribute the money to four charities of her choice.
The photograph shows the Duchess of York, flanked by the Queen and the Queen Mother, cradling Elizabeth’s newest granddaughter, Princess Beatrice.
The queen, who had planned to use the photograph as a royal Christmas card, was not pleased when it appeared on The Sun’s front page last month. She complained to Scotland Yard.
British newspapers reported a 17-year-old clerk at an unidentified London publishing firm that prints the Queen’s cards went voluntarily to police to say she stole the photograph after it fell out of a package she was opening.
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