Prince Harry’s bodyguards were too busy “enjoying the party” to stop girls taking naked photos of the royal.
The taxpayer funded Scotland Yard protection officers who accompanied the 27-year-old Prince to Las Vegas “acted like amateurs who were asleep at the wheel” a source has said.
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Instead of asking Harry’s new female friends to surrender their camera phones upon entering the royal suite, the men sat back and watched the incriminating images being taken.
“As one person photographed the Prince, an officer meekly told them ‘Awww, come on … no photos,” the source told gossip website TMZ, which initially published the scandalous nude images.
“They were enjoying the party more than protecting the Prince from himself. Harry’s team acted like a bunch of amateurs.”
Harry’s protection detail costs British taxpayers $3 million a year. They are meant to insist guests surrender their phones and cameras before socialising with Harry to prevent this sort of embarrassing scandal.
A Scotland Yard spokesman refused to comment on the allegations.
Harry arrived back in the UK yesterday to face the media storm over the illicit images, which saw Harry completely naked cavorting with an equally naked woman during a game of “strip billiards”.
The Queen and senior members of the royal family — including Harry’s beloved brother Prince William — are said to be furious with the rebellious Prince.
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But Harry is reportedly unrepentant, with friends saying he doesn’t think he did anything wrong.
“He’s not eating an awful lot of humble pie as I understand,” one friend told the UK’s Daily Mail.
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