Katrina much-awaited Playboy cover is out

Playboy’s new hottie is the cousin of Duchess Kate! She is the burlesque dancer Katrina Darling hotting up the September issue of Playboy with her curves and pretty looks, and wearing nothing but suspenders and lacy lingerie.

Hugh Hefner announced Katrina’s arrival way before on twitter, and now she has finally landed on the mag cover, also posing for a long racy spread. One of the images even shows Katrina Darling topless. Dailymail reports that earlier this week, it was revealed that the dancer, an ex-banker, was paid a six-figure sum to strip off for the adult publication.

It’s even said that the magazine is keen to emphasize Katrina’s royal connection on their September magazine cover. Shockingly, the girl was unaware of the royal connection. Katrina Darling first learned of it just before the April 2011 royal wedding through a UK journalist. “It was the most ridiculous thing I ever heard,” she tells Playboy. “It’s not every day something like that happens.”

Katrina also has never met her cousin Kate, but she's called a 'royal beauty' and 'Britain's new burlesque queen' on the front page of the mag. The stunner is happy with her newfound fame and has also received negative media attention because of it. In an interview she said, it would be really “awkward to meet Kate. I’m not sure what I would say in that sort of situation. But I’m sure we would find something to laugh about in it all.”

Here is Katrina Darling in her beauty and grace posing for Playboy. Is she hot?