Duchess of Cambridge receives support from Countess of Wessex in topless pictures row Harkin warns the editor of the French magazine Closer, who published the pictures of the Duchess, that she will never live it down. "In Sophie's case, it was even worse because it involved a betrayal," he says. Kara Noble, who knew Sophie, sold the topless picture and had to move abroad because she was so pilloried afterwards. Golden summer of love Samantha Murray won a silver medal at the London Olympics but has struck gold in her private life. The 22-year-old Lancastrian is enjoying a passionate romance with the dashing Italian Riccardo de Luca, 26, a fellow modern pentathlete. "I'm learning Italian," she tells Mandrake at the Rib Room at Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in Knightsbridge. Riccardo and I can communicate easily because he speaks English, but I want to be able to talk to him in his first language. She adds: "He's so great. This summer has been such a dream in so many ways. Teenage terror Thandie Newton has prepared for many parts in her career, but her real-life role as the mother of two blossoming daughters is proving a taxing one. The Hollywood star's husband, Ol Parker, says: "I have two girls and one is now nearly a teenager - it is terrifying." Speaking at the premiere of his latest film, Now Is Good, the director adds: "There is a scene that I wrote with the line, 'It's a terrible day when a man's daughter brings a boy home for the first time." I'll never be ready for it, I would like to stop my children growing, I don't know how to handle it.