The cases wherein Prince George is being harassed by photographers have reportedly become increasingly dangerous, causing the Kensington Palace to issue an appeal to worldwide media not to publish Prince George's unauthorised photos, reported The BBC.

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According to the palace, the two-year-old royal is constantly being hounded by some paparazzi, who, in their attempt to get good shots of the young royal, had gone to "extreme lengths" and has therefore "crossed" some boundaries.

The palace also listed in their letter the countries with a small number of media organisations, which had published the photos portraying Prince George in "unacceptable circumstances." They include Germany, New Zealand, the US, France, and Australia.

However, the letter from the palace also said that those who refused to publish such photos include the "vast majority" as well as all UK publications.

What disturbing tactics have the media used just to get Prince George's photos?

The letter from the palace was sent to media groups Friday. Among the "increasing number of incidents of paparazzi harassment" and "increasingly dangerous" tactics used towards Prince George include:

• Renting a car, stocking it with food and drinks, and hanging sheets from the windows and through a peephole in the chassis, try getting a snapshot of Prince George in a playground
• Using long range lenses to take photos of Prince George playing with mom, the Duchess of Cambridge, in private parks
• Monitoring household staff, Prince George and his nanny's movements around London parks
• Photographing private individuals' children who visit the home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
• Pursuing cars leaving the royals' homes
• Using other children to bait Prince George into going to other playgrounds
• Hiding on private properties - fields and woodland locations - located around the royals' Norfolk home
• Obscured their bodies in sand dunes along a rural beach to photograph Prince George and his grandmother playing together
• Placing steady surveillance in locations near Catherine's parents' Berkshire home

"The Duke and Duchess want to extend their thanks for the kind and supportive messages they have received in recent months," the Kensington Palace in a tweet. "They have been delighted to share photos of their children and will continue to do so in the months and years ahead."

"Yet undercover paparazzi continue to pursue their children, selling images of Prince George to international publications," the tweet adds.

Secretary Jason Knauf of Kensington Palace Communications said in the letter that the 2-year-old prince has become the paparazzi's "number one target".

"It is of course upsetting that such tactics - reminiscent as they are of past surveillance by groups intent on doing more than capturing images - are being deployed to profit from the image of a two-year-old boy," he said. "In a heightened security environment such tactics are a risk to all involved.

"The worry is that it will not always be possible to quickly distinguish between someone taking photos and someone intending to do more immediate harm," he added.

Knauf also said that the duke and duchess only want their son and his sister Princess Charlotte "to be free to play in public and semi-public spaces with other children without being photographed", adding that they want to provide a life for their children that is "free from harassment and surveillance", he said.

It is not the first time that the palace has issued a plea on behalf of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, according to CNN. However, it appears that the palace's past warnings were not taken seriously by the paparazzi.

According to The Guardian, in the end, the choice may still be up to the royals, especially since the paparazzi will not give up their jobs if there is big money involved. It may mean that in order to avoid the press, their children might have to play behind high walls.

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