The royal may face censure from the army over his behaviour in Las Vegas, after images of him at a private party were published on an American website. 
 
 Military codes of conduct warn officers that he must maintain high standards of professionalism “both on and off operations”. 
 
 The guidelines state that members of the army must not display any “social misbehaviour”, especially if it results in any damage to corporate image or reputation. 
 
 The pictures of the third-in-line to the throne showed him wearing just a necklace and wristband, while covering his genitals with his hands. 
 
 Army experts today said the prince would probably be reprimanded but not severely punished over the episode. 
 
 One military source said: “His commanding officer will probably have a word but I imagine his family might be even more annoyed at his stupidity.” 
 
 Another expert, a former instructor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, said the Prince is most likely to face an “interview without coffee”. 
 
 “It is very stupid doing that anywhere near cameras,” he said. “I don’t know how his minders let that happen. My view is that he will probably get a telling off. If he’d just come back from active service and was letting off steam it might be different.” 
 
 St James's Palace has confirmed the naked man in the pictures is Prince Harry but declined to comment further. 
 
 A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence would not say whether the incident will result in disciplinary action. 
 
 The images were published on the US-based gossip website TMZ. They are available for publication by other newspapers for a five-figure sum. ||||| Last August Prince Harry invited a group of hotel guests back to his £5,000-a-night Las Vegas suite where one of them photographed him and a girl naked during a game of strip pool. 
 
 The pictures appeared online and in newspapers around the world, though only one British newspaper, the Sun, defied a request from St James’s Palace not to publish them. 
 
 Speaking in Camp Bastion during his deployment to Afghanistan, the 28-year-old Apache helicopter co-pilot said: “At the end of the day I probably let myself down, I let my family down, I let other people down." 
 
 The Prince said: “It was probably a classic example of me probably being too much army, and not enough prince. It's a simple case of that. 
 
 “But I was in a private area and there should be a certain amount of privacy that one should expect. ||||| Prince Harry has added a raw twist to the Vegas Strip. 
 
 
 
 The rowdy royal is returning to Britain on Thursday with a lot of explaining to do about photos showing him in the buff, holding his crown jewels and cavorting with an equally nude beauty. 
 
 
 
 The salacious snapshots of the playboy prince were taken by a fellow reveler’s phone cam during a Sin City game of “strip billiards.” 
 
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 In the pictures, which appeared on TMZ.com Tuesday night, the 27-year-old helicopter pilot is going commando, wearing nothing more than a wrist watch and a necklace. 
 
 
 
 The necklace, with its dangling amber-colored stone, was a gift from his on-off girlfriend Chelsy Davy, the Daily Mail reported. 
 
 
 
 The shots captured the Prince of Wales putting the squeeze from behind on a nude babe, who appears to be holding a pool cue next to a pool table. 
 
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 TMZ reported that the au naturel horseplay happened Friday during a raging party in an $8,000-a-night suite at the Wynn and Encore hotel complex on the famed Vegas Strip. 
 
 
 
 Sources told the gossip website that Harry and pals invited a bevy of beauties up to his VIP suite for a jolly good time. 
 
 
 
 “We have no comment to make on the photos at this time,” a royal family rep told TMZ. 
 
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 Buckingham Palace officials quickly moved to get publication of the photos banned in Britain, arguing to the country’s Press Complaints Commission that they were a breach of the prince’s privacy — not to say his privates. 
 
 
 
 Bernard Hogan-Howe, the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, deflected any blame that might be cast on security guards traveling with Harry on his stateside vacation. 
 
 
 
 “Royal protection officers are there to protect him for security reasons; they are not there to regulate his life,” Hogan-Howe told the Telegraph of London. 
 
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 The average Brit didn’t seem to blame Harry for his high jinks. “He’s a lad, for God’s sake,” Shirley Ashard, 59, told The Associated Press. 
 
 
 
 In a cheeky move to show the public the photos without actually publishing them, The Sun of London recreated the pictures using a Harry look-alike holding his genitals. The simulated photo appeared on Thursday’s front page with the headline, “Harry grabs the crown jewels.” 
 
 
 
 While the British press was deprived of running the shots, Brits in America who’ve seen them got a chuckle at Harry’s expense. 
 
 
 
 “That’s not a royal penis!” quipped Brit Lisa Vanderpump — star of the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” — when shown the photos by TMZ. 
 
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 “I need a magnifying glass to see that. Hold on, let me get my glasses,” Vanderpump joked. 
 
 
 
 The photos were shot on the the same wild weekend that saw Harry take on U.S. Olympic swimming champ Ryan Lochte in a boozy impromptu race in a Vegas hotel pool overflowing with bikini-clad women. 
 
 
 
 As in his game of strip billiards, Harry lost the race. 
 
 
 
 Prince Harry and Ryan Lochte swimming at a pool party in Las Vegas. Bill Bramhall 
 
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– Prince Harry opens up about his naked Las Vegas photo scandal in video obtained by the Telegraph, blaming himself for letting himself and his family down. "It was probably a classic example of me probably being too much army, and not enough prince. It's a simple case of that," he says. But he adds that he didn't think it was "acceptable" for newspapers to publish the pictures: "I was in a private area and there should be a certain amount of privacy that one should expect." In case he didn't have quite enough fun the last time he was in Vegas, the city's mayor thinks he should come back now that he's home from Afghanistan: "When he was here everyone was talking about it," Carolyn Goodman tells TMZ. "We welcome him back with open arms." Harry's line about "too much army, not enough prince" didn't really impress Gawker. In fact, in an impressive piece, Caity Weaver rounds up quotes from all the interviews Harry did yesterday to mark his return home and declares the prince "remarkably poorly spoken." In case you don't quite get her meaning, she adds, "This boy dumb." Some of the other quotes she uses as examples: On why he's such a good soldier: "You can ask the guys: I thrash them at [soccer video game] FIFA the whole time." On finding someone to marry: "You ain't ever going to find someone who's going to jump into the position that it would hold. Simple as that." On his brother expecting a baby: "I literally am very, very happy for them." More on the baby: "I just only hope that she and him—but mainly Catherine—hopefully that she gets the necessary protection to allow her as a mother-to-be to enjoy the privacy that that comes with."