UK tabloid prints naked Harry pictures
LONDON. August 26. KAZINFORM Tabloid The Sun on Friday became the first mainstream British newspaper to publish photographs of a vacationing Prince Harry in the nude.
The pictures of the prince, showing him naked in a hotel suite while he was on vacation last week in Las Vegas, were widely available on the Internet after website TMZ published them Tuesday. But British newspapers initially declined to publish them, Kazinform refers to CNN.
The Sun's front page, headlined "Heir it is!" - a play on Harry's status as third in line to the throne - shows the 27-year-old prince naked except for a watch and necklace, protecting his modesty with his cupped hands.
A second image widely circulated online, which shows Harry hugging a woman from behind next to a pool table, both of them naked, is also printed in the paper, with a large crown superimposed across his bottom.
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The newspaper defends its decision to go ahead with publishing the image as being in the interests of a free press.
"The Sun is NOT making any moral judgement about Harry's nude frolics with girls in a Las Vegas hotel. Far from it. He often sails close to the wind for a Royal - but he's 27, single and a soldier. We like him," the story reads.
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