The Kate Middleton photo scandal has come roaring back with the publication of even more (and clearer) images in Scandinavian gossip magazine Se og Hør this week.

The magazine’s editor quickly defended the move.

“We are a leading gossip magazine in Denmark, and it is my job to publish them,” Kim Henningsen said of the Kate Middleton topless (and bottomless) images.

Taken with a long lens, the images – basically the same as the ones published previously in French and Irish magazines – show Kate in a bikini … and then not in a bikini.

A rep for the royals declined comment, saying, “Our stance is the same as before – we aren’t commenting save to say all proportionate legal responses will be kept under review.”

Take a look at the [NSFW] Kate Middleton photos after the jump:

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