What has Harry been up to now!

What else would happen in a billiard room?

Actually, it might be better if you didn't answer that.

petallus, what makes you think that 'the boy next door' wouldn't do just the same, given the chance? But Captain Harry Wales might have had more sense.

I'm leaving this thread.

It wasn't actually nasty before.

I heard on the news that the SUN is printing the photos because the readers have a right to see them.
NO. NO. NO.
The SUN readers have a right to shelter, food, education, freedom to worship, and to live in a non violent society.
They do not have the right see the photos of a young man cavorting naked with his friend(s) in the privacy of his hotel bedroom.
The SUN should come clean. The readers may want to see the photos, they may even have a salacious desire to see the photos but more importantly printing these photos will sell more papers and make more money.

Annobel I put a grin because I wasn't being serious about the boy next door remark.

Or not entirely. I suppose people in the public eye, especially those in the Royal family, have to try to cultivate a certain kind of 'respectable' image. It's quite reassuring to find they are human like the rest of us.

I certainly would not expect a young man like Harry to behave in a so called sensible manner.

Don't care what he gets up to. Good luck to him.

Just to add, having read glitabo's comments, I don't like to have the wool pulled over my eyes so knowing the truth about people like the Royal family is something I value.

It annoys me that we get fed these anodyne images of such people.

One of the reasons I was sorry when Diana was killed is that through her we got to know how things really were.

The Sun's interest is in boosting its circulation. The 'public interest' is merely a smokescreen. In truth, millions of people with access to the internet have already seen these pictures if they were interested curious enough (I hold up my hand) and have no cause to buy the Sun unless they already do.

Quite. Well said, anno.

Challenge for anyone who wants yo take it up: define the "public interest", in a different way from the obvious, somewhat flippant one of "what the public is interested in".

I can think of a pompous one without even trying: what the public's "betters" think is good for us.

Have at 'em, pet.

jings, there's nothing nasty about this thread. We are just taking the piss about of daft young man.

There's an interesting article somewhere about it being normal behaviour for young men like him. Fine. We're allowed to laugh.

JO4 It isn't nasty now, either. A naked prince with a pool cue in Las Vegas of all places has to be a cause for merriment. To bring things down to the level of Sun – you couldn't make it up.

Think of the fun stand-up comics are going to have about this topic! What a shame HIGNFY isn't on at the moment!
There's nothing 'nasty' about irreverence, jingl. In fact, there's often an element of affection. Mind you, your Majesty, if your're reading this, I'm quite glad it isn't my grandson plastered over the front of the Sun. have they airbrushed anything?

In one of the pics he has his hands placed strategically over the crown jewels. In the one showing a back view of him bending over the Sun have placed a crown to block out a too intimate view of his bum.

I have a feeling I'm lowering the tone

No petallus Prince Harry has already done that.

I thought that the strategically placed hands indicated that he was all too aware that someone was taking his photograph.

I don't know any 27 year old man who wouldn't be happy to get naked with willing pretty girls! Perhaps he could have shown a little more common sense but, presumaby, he had had a few drinks. As for his security detail, its their job to protect him from other people not from himself!

I always thought the Sun 'newspaper' was trash.......now its beyond the pale.

The problem with trash is that it is often quite entertaining.

Rory, our upmarket feral cat, always reads the Telegraph. His apartment is wall-papered and carpeted with back issues. We wouldn't wish to lower the tone by introducing him to such tat as the Sun.

Basil, our English lop rabbit, is very fond of The Guardian and Church Times. I did put a tabloid (won't say which one) in his hutch once but he peed on it.

PRICELESS! petallus

The Americans have a saying...."What happens in Las Vagas stays in Las Vagas"
Well, the world press have scotched that urban myth!

I know I said I would keep off this thread, but I have just read the Sun bit and it is SO funny!

I'm with the Sun on this. Not everyone has the internet. Why should anybody miss it?

"“He hugged her to cover her up. He went over to be the gentleman and said, ‘I’ll shield you. I’ll protect you. I won’t let them see you’

Yeah right!

Blimey, Jings, Mills and Boon would be proud of that one

That's one of the things I've always thought The Sun had going for it; it's irreverant humour.

And the puns.

I think its funny too. The royals get so much of our taxes, they owe us some entertainment-thats one of their duties. Right down the ages most male royals have indulged themselves in hedonistic pursuits-nothing new under the sun.Publish and be damned.