By Sheila Mckenzie-
A video which revealed the Duke Of Cambridge confronting a photographer highlighting his discontent with a breach of family’s privacy has been removed from Youtube after being viewed by tens of thousands of people despite attempts to block it.
The video, which was viewed more than 20,000 times on Monday, shows the Duke confronting a photographer after he was filmed with his family near Sandringham, Norfolk.
It feature the Duke of Cambridge remonstrating with a man videoing him, while his wife and three children are off camera nearby.
The short video was uploaded four days ago, more than a year after the incident occurred has been said to be a breach of the family’s privacy.
The footage featuring Prince William’s anger with the photographer was not itself strictly a breach of their privacy, but the situation which led to it, clearly was since Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton were enjoying a private time with their family. Violation of a law makes any direct benefit to the offender or anybody else as a result of the violator of that law , illegal.
He and Kate Middleton are extremely private about their children, and aside from sharing birthday pictures and bringing them to the occasional royal event, try to keep them out of the public eye so they can have normal childhoods. The Telegraph reports that while the British print press tends to respect William and Kate’s boundaries, it can be harder to control social media—not to mention tabloids outside of England.
All members of the media should know that it is unlawful to publish photographs or videos of the Royal family in private circumstances, and the Duke and Duchess Of Cambridge are in their right to call for the shaming and sacking of that individual photographer.
The Duke has previously been highly critical of social media firms and their approach to fake news, privacy issues and cyber-bullying, accusing them of failing to take the issues seriously.
The latest video was filmed in January 2021 near the Cambridges’ Anmer Hall home where the Duke, Duchess and their three children were riding their bikes along a country lane.
It shows the Duke confronting a photographer who claimed to have been in the area on public roads only looking for the Saturday Sandringham shoot.
The Duke has previously warned of the dangers of social media networks and what he saw as the disinclination of their executives to deal with a range of problems which affected users.
“I am very concerned though that on every challenge they face – fake news, extremism, polarisation, hate speech, trolling, mental health, privacy, and bullying – our tech leaders seem to be on the back foot,” he said in 2018.
“Their self-image is so grounded in their positive power for good that they seem unable to engage in constructive discussion about the social problems that they are creating.”