Naked Prince Harry photos published online

[Stephen!]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19346468

Pictures showing Prince Harry and a young woman naked in a Las Vegas hotel room have been published on a US website.

The two photos of the 27-year-old royal, on gossip website TMZ, were taken on a private break with friends over the weekend.

The site reported that the prince was in a group playing "strip billiards".

St James's Palace has confirmed the prince is in the photos but has made no further comment about the images.

The two pictures of the prince are thought to have been taken on Friday.

The website claims the pictures came after the prince, who is third in line to the throne, invited friends back to his hotel room for a private party.

BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said it was not clear how the photos were taken, but it is presumed they were captured on a camera phone.

He said the pictures had been picked up by much of the American media, but no part of the mainstream British media had so far published them.

"British newspapers are very mindful that Lord Justice Leveson is writing his report on the British newspaper industry at the moment. Privacy is a big part of what he's been looking into," he said.

Our correspondent added that although the Palace has not commented, officials have been pointing out that everyone has a reasonable expectation of privacy within the privacy of their own hotel room.

The emergence of the pictures is the latest colourful incident in Prince Harry's life.

In 2005, there was widespread outrage when an image of the prince attending a friend's fancy dress birthday dressed as a Nazi emerged.

And in 2009, Prince Harry was forced to apologise for using offensive language to describe an Asian member of his army platoon after video footage emerged.

 

[wissaboo]

it's the younger siblings job to be scandalous

besides, what kind of an asshole takes pictures at a private gathering like that and sells them?

 

[Amaris]

It figures our media picked it up fast.
God forbid Harry is naked in the privacy of his hotel room. Scandal!

 

[Lumi]

I will NEVER understand why anyone would be interested in posting these for the public, or even looking at them, honestly.

 

[wissaboo]

I can remember when naked pics of Prince Charles were published. He was about 50 at the time. All I could say was, we should all be playing polo.

 

[Amaris]

I will NEVER understand why anyone would be interested in posting these for the public, or even looking at them, honestly.

The tittering. That's about it.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I have now looked at the photos.

I wonder if some heads can roll, legally or otherwise because of this. It's pretty shitty.

 

[ichab]

All I can say is....welcome to america Prince Harry.

 

[Snowlilly]

I will NEVER understand why anyone would be interested in posting these for the public, or even looking at them, honestly.

This.....not exactly someone I want to see naked

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

The photos are quite easy on the eye.. though deeply embarrassing.

 

[Dream]

I have now looked at the photos.

Aren't you worried about people calling you a pervert?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

No.

 

[Dream]

No.

I'll never look at leaked pictures. Plenty of naked people on the internet already.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I had standards once too..

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Americans get way too worked up about naked people anyway.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

True. They would get worked up if he'd posed for the shots

But most of us wouldn't want naked photos of ourselves leaked online.

 

[Spock/Uhura Fan]

Americans get way too worked up about naked people anyway.

Makes me think of something George R.R. Martin said about Americans.

“I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off,” he said.

“To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.”

He pretty much said this level of prudish behavior was unique to us. I'm not sure if that's true, but I guess he knows what he's talking about.

And speaking of "worked up," your avatar looks pretty worked up. I love it. It's kind of hypnotic and looks like it had a lot of coffee. What is it?

 

[Gryffindorian]

He's a good looking guy and is quite athletic, not to mention young, rich, famous and incredibly charming. I don't mind seeing him naked.

There's a video of him and Ryan Lochte doing a little swim race in a pool in Vegas.

 

[Roger Wilco]

It figures our media picked it up fast.
God forbid Harry is naked in the privacy of his hotel room. Scandal!

Well, it clearly wasn't that private.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

He's a good looking guy and is quite athletic, not to mention young, rich, famous and incredibly charming. I don't mind seeing him naked.

There's a video of him and Ryan Lochte doing a little swim race in a pool in Vegas.

"Swim race" isn't a euphemism, by any chance, is it?