Intriguingly, the provocative pictures had also been taken years earlier, in this case during a 2006 holiday.
Carole and Pippa enjoyed some mother-daughter time as the two women paddled in the ocean, with Pippa helping her mum wade through the waves onto the shore.
And then, the billions of people tuning in clapped eyes on her sister, Pippa.
Within the year, Kate would be facing her own nude scandal, when images of her sunbathing topless in France would be taken by a paparazzo and in 2016, thousands of Pippa's private photos were allegedly stolen when a hacker broke into her iCloud account.
Within hours, Pippa's bottom had its own Twitter and Facebook accounts and was trending on social media.
Shots of her gym-toned derrière were splashed across papers and websites around the world.