Prince Harry’s office played down photographs published on a U.S. website of the naked royal, the third-in-line to the British throne, with friends in a Las Vegas hotel room, saying he was on a private vacation.
The pictures on gossip website TMZ.com show the prince in a hotel room with friends. Harry is pictured wearing only a medallion and a wristband, with a naked woman in each shot.
“He was on a private holiday and is due back at work soon,” the prince’s office at Clarence House in London said in a statement today. A spokeswoman, who declined to named in line with official practice, said she could not give any information on which of the prince’s guests took and released the photos.
While the prince, 27, had a playboy image in the past, he has been taking more responsibility in recent months in representing his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. He took her place at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics on Aug. 12.
Harry, the second son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, made tabloid headlines when younger as a serial partygoer, clashing with paparazzi photographers outside nightclubs in 2004 and turning up at a costume affair in a Nazi uniform. Pictures from that event drew condemnation from politicians inside and outside Britain.
He is a member of the army and served with British forces in Afghanistan, making him the first royal to fight in a war zone in more than 25 years.
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