Closer magazine editor Laurence Pieau says that Kate Middleton was topless and sunbathing like millions of other women around the world and that she and Prince William are a “happy young couple in love.”

Now that the Palace is suing the editor, she’s defending herself and hints that Kate and Prince William were photographed having sex. Just to be clear, Laurence didn’t say they were caught in the act, but she makes strong hints that she has more pictures that are more intimate and graphic of the couple!

Pieau said: “I won’t hide the fact that there are more intimate pictures that exist that we haven’t published and will not publish. These images are full of joy, not degrading.”

I’m guessing she’s talking O-face. That is what being “full of joy” is all about, right?

TMZ reports that Laurence “could be trying to paint herself as a heroic figure who SAVED the Royal fam from further humiliation … or she just issued a thinly-veiled WARNING to Buckingham Palace: Back off the lawsuit, or else.