Twenty-years later, Prince Harry would face similar embarrassment on a 2012 trip to the Wynn in Las Vegas. According to Harry, after a night of gambling and boozing, his friends invited a group of \u201cdodgy\u201d women to his luxurious suite. They started playing pool, when Harry decided to spice things up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI suggested we up the stakes,\u201d he writes in Spare. \u201cHow about a game of strip pool? Enthusiastic cheers. Ten minutes later I was the big loser, reduced to my skivvies. Then I lost my skivvies. It was harmless, silly, or so I thought.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the next day, cellphone photos of an intoxicated, naked prince were posted on TMZ, ruining his Vegas vacay. When he got back to England, he expected his father to come down hard, but Charles was sympathetic. \u201cHe was gentle. Even bemused,\u201d he writes. \u201cHe felt for me, he said, he\u2019d been there, though he\u2019d never been naked on a front page. Actually, that was untrue. When I was about eight years old a German newspaper had published naked photos of him, taken with a telephoto lens while he was holidaying in France.\u201d<\/p>\n
That same year, the reserved Catherine, Princess of Wales, was appalled when long-lens photos of her sunbathing topless at the pool were taken while she was vacationing at a chateau owned by Princess Margaret\u2019s son Viscount Linley. She and Prince William later sued<\/a> Closer magazine, and the couple was paid 100,000 euros in damages.<\/p>\n