Prince Harry has dropped a formal complaint
against editors at the UK newspaper which
published naked photos of the British royal
from his scandalous Las Vegas holiday.
The Sun defied the royal family and published
shots of Prince Harry naked that everyone
had already seen on the Internet anyway
(with a headline that even acknowledged
this).
The scandal first broke with the pics leaked
online in August.
The Sun was the only paper to ignore advice
from the UK's media watchdog, the Press
Complaints Commission (PCC), not to run the
shots, and the images were printed days
later.
The bold move prompted the Prince, who has
since begun active military service on the
front line in Afghanistan, to file a formal
complaint with the PCC, which he has now
dropped.
A spokesperson for royal residence St James's
Palace says:
"We remain of the opinion that a hotel room is
a private space where its occupants would
have a reasonable expectation of privacy,
however Prince Harry is currently focused
entirely on his deployment in Afghanistan, so
to pursue a complaint relating to his private
life would not be appropriate at this time and
would prove to be a distraction."
They also have the Kate Middleton nude
photos to deal with.
She and husband Prince William have filed a
breach of privacy lawsuit against the owners
of Closer, the French magazine which first
printed those images.
The royals have won an injunction against
them barring further publication of the
images, which have since run in several other
European gossip publications.
And, of course, the Internet. Hard as it is to
go through what the royals are in this case,
it's harder and probably fruitless to try to put
the nude genie back in the bottle.
So to speak.
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