By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

"The Queen Is Nude!" is the blaring headline on the cover of Monday's Chi, the gossip magazine that is publishing a stunning 50 pictures of Kate Middleton sunbathing in various stages of undress.

The Italian magazine is going on stands with a 26-page section devoted to the pictures, taken while Kate and Prince William were vacationing in France.

The magazine claims to have a total of 200 images taken while Kate was sunbathing, and while she is topless in many, the editor insists Kate is totally nude in others.