Prince George is Being Hounded by Paparazzi, Complains William and Kate

Although paparazzi routinely follow all members of the royal family, Prince George is believed to be their “number one target”.

He added: “Paparazzi photographers are going to increasingly extreme lengths to observe and monitor Prince George’s movements and covertly capture images of him to sell to the handful of global media titles still willing to pay for them”.

The letter explained that Will and Kate want their children to have freedom to play outside, saying: “The Duke and Duchess are of course very fortunate to have private homes where photographers can not capture images of their children”.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spoke out today about security fears for their children after a photographer was discovered in the boot of a vehicle trying to get pictures of Prince George outside a playground.

On one occasion last week a photographer set up a “hide” in his auto as he staked out a children’s play area.

Kensington Palace, the official home of Prince William and his wife Kate, published a letter sent to media standards organizations, detailing recent incursions on the family’s privacy.

The palace says it presents a risk “in a heightened security environment”. “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”, read the statement. It is hoped that those who pay paparazzi photographers for their images of children will be able to better understand the distressing activity around a two-year old boy that their money is fuelling.

Snappers have also been found hiding on private property in fields and woodland locations around Kate and Wills’ home in Norfolk, and one obscured themselves in sand dunes on a rural beach to take photos of Prince George playing with his grandmother.

Kensington Palace highlights the “serious problem” which has been escalating through trend and they felt compelled to take action. They said they knew that every parent would understand their deep unease over strangers following them and taking photographs of their children without permission.

In the letter, Mr Knauf said Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had “expressed their gratitude to British media organisations for their policy of not publishing unauthorised photos of their children”.

Thanking the public for messages of support, they also promised that official opportunities to photograph the children would become “a regular occurrence” as they grew older.

This is, they say, an important and laudable stance for which The Duke and Duchess are hugely grateful. But they will continue to take legal steps against the “publications that fuel the market for unauthorized photos of children”.

As parents they are determined to keep the issues around a small number of paparazzi photographers distinct and separate from the positive work of most newspapers, magazines, broadcasters, and web publishers around the world.