Magazine promises pregnant Kate photos, angers UK royals

LONDON (REUTERS) - An Italian magazine said on Tuesday it will publish pictures of a pregnant Duchess of Cambridge wearing a bikini on holiday in the Caribbean, angering the British royal family and reigniting a debate over privacy and freedom of the press.

Photographs of the former Kate Middleton, walking with her husband Prince William on a beach on the island of Mustique, are expected to be published in the Italian gossip magazine Chi on Wednesday.

The same publication ran pictures last September of the princess sunbathing topless on holiday in France, raising questions about media intrusion into the lives of one of the world's most famous couples.

Chi's owner The Mondadori group published a picture of the magazine's front page on its website. It appeared to show the 31-year-old princess wading into the sea in a blue bikini in one picture and another where she was strolling arm in arm with William, 30, second in line to the British throne.