Netherlands royal family won a lawsuit against the news agency The Associated Press , said the agency.

action is brought to four photos of the family heir to the throne of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange Willem-Alexander, made at a ski resort Argentina. Royalty felt that by placing these images in their fotobaze, the agency had violated their right to privacy.

Agency argued that the photos were taken in a public place and do not violate the law. However, the court sided with the Willem-Alexander and his family, who appealed to what is regularly pose for photographers at a specially reserved for this time.

In the Netherlands, a so-called media code, the agreement between the media and the royal family, according to which only publishes photographs of royalty imprinted in the performance. The court held that these conditions should be respected and outside the Netherlands.

Earlier AFP reported that the plaintiffs had demanded not only remove photos, but the agency fined for 25 thousand euros for the publication of each of them. What decision had the court in respect of this claim is not reported.

In early August, the royal family sent letters to media outlets that have already managed to take photographs from the base of AP, with a request to remove images from their sites or publish them to continue . The only recipient that does not respond to this letter was itself news agency. However, his staff said that the message was accidentally delivered to the wrong department of The Associated Press.