Prince Harry to cheer on British Paralympians

LONDON, United Kingdom – Britain’s Prince Harry will make his first public appearance next week since nude photographs of him in a Las Vegas hotel room flooded the internet. 

The announcement was made on Tuesday, August 28.

The 3rd in line to the British throne will cheer on swimmers at the Paralympic Games on Monday, September 3, and will later meet with British competitors in London.

A St. James’ Palace spokesman stressed, however, that the prince’s timetable is open to change.

Harry is an official ambassador of ParalympicsGB, but will not be joining Queen Elizabeth II, Prince William and his wife Katherine at Wednesday’s (August 29) opening ceremony.

Harry, 27, was photographed naked with a mystery woman during a game of “strip billiards” in a Las Vegas hotel suite.

The images, first published on US website TMZ, rapidly went viral and caused a furor in Britain.

The Sun is the only British newspaper to have published the nude snaps of Harry, in defiance of orders from the royal family to respect the prince’s privacy and refrain from printing them. – Agence France-Presse