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November 21, 2000 

LONDON-- (AP) - Britain's press watchdog has censured a magazine for publishing unauthorized photographs of Prince William taken with a telephoto lens during a vacation in South America.

The Press Complaints Commission ruled that OK! magazine was guilty of harassment and breaching William's privacy when it printed photographs of the 18-year-old prince hiking during a 10-week expedition in Chile.

The pictures broke rules agreed upon by the commission and the British press for coverage of William after he left Eton, his private boarding school.

William had been "on a trip to a place where he had a reasonable expectation of privacy," the commission's ruling said in part.

A spokesman for William's father, Prince Charles, welcomed the ruling Monday.

"It is very important to be clear that, during Prince William's gap year and his time at university, if pictures are used and they have been gained in a disruptive fashion, that is unacceptable," the spokesman said, speaking with customary anonymity.