ROYAL FAMILY ARTICLES

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28801, 23 January 1959, Page 9

ROYAL FAMILY ARTICLES

Publication In Europe

(N-Z. Press Association —Copt/rtglit) LONDON, January 21. More than 200.000 copies of a magazine containing the banned second article of William' Ellis's series, on the British Royal Family were rolling off the presses in Milan tonight the "Daily Sketch" reported The newspaper said a spokesman for Edilio Rusconi. the head of an Italian empire of glossy weeklies, told why Mr Rusconi was flouting the undertaking given yesterday in the. High Court tn London by Mr Ellis. The undertaking binds Mr Eliis —the former superintendent of Windsor Castle—not to disclose private details about the Royal Family. The "Daily Sketch” said Mr Rusconi’s statement said: “It's too late to stop the article now. We can’t tear the magazine apart And anyway, these articles are good journalism. They boost our ' The “Daily■ ■ Sketch" said the first article was published tn Saturday’s ,issue gt the magazine “Gente.” There was a picture of the Queen on page one. The series runs to four articles, the newspaper said.. The copyright was bought from a London Sunday newspaper before Mr Ellis gave his undertaking. The newspaper's correspondent in Milan said he was told: "We cannot tell you how much we paid for it What does the second article deal with? Ha. that is a secret. “There nave- been nd discussions here about stopping these articles, and we don’t intend co stop them. Why should we? We haven’t been asked to stop them The London court case is no concern of ours. “We don't regard these articles as. at all an affront to your Royal Family." The correspondent said be was told at the British Embassy in Rome: “No approach is being made to ask the magazine to stop publication Nothing can be done about It" The correspondent said that the second part of "the tell-tale stuff, like the first is crammed full of pictures.” Copies of “Gente" were normally available in Britain at Is 9d each, said the “Daily Sketch.” Reuter reported from Paris that the weekly, "France Dimanche. ' which is on sale tomorrow, is carrying what it describes as the first instalment of the “charming private life of Elizabeth and Philip." The weekly carries front-page pictures of the Royal Family and a full inside-page article by Mr Ellis.