Kate Middleton has reportedly hired a female "minder" to accompany her so that future pictures of her bare bottom can be avoided, it has been revealed.

According to sources, the female "bum guard" would accompany Duchess Kate on shopping trips and stand guard outside changing rooms while she tries on clothes, the Daily Star reported.

Insiders added that the 32-year-old wife of Prince William will now be watched all the time and they can't afford any more embarrassing photos like this.

Sources claimed that Middleton was snapped topless in France while on holiday and now someone has got a photo of her bottom and she needs more protection to "spare her blushes".

A German newspaper printed a sneaky picture of her bare bottom recently when the future queen's dress billowed up in a gust of wind while she climbed from a helicopter in Australia's Blue Mountains.