St James’s Palace said Friday that it would still consider filing a formal complaint against the Sun newspaper for publishing nude photos of Prince Harry.
The comment came after the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) said Thursday it would refrain from opening an investigation despite around 3,800 complaints about the photo.
It said Harry’s representatives had not as yet lodged a formal complaint, adding that “an investigation by the commission, without consent, would have the potential itself to pose an intrusion.”
A palace spokesman explained: “We are still considering matters and will make a decision in our own time.”
The photographs were first published in the United States by celebrity news website TMZ.com, which showed the third-in-line to the throne naked in a hotel suite in Las Vegas.
Harry, 27, was photographed naked with a mystery woman during a game of “strip billiards”
The images rapidly went viral and caused a furore in Britain.
The Sun defied a PCC advisory not to publish the photos saying it was “ludicrous” that British newspapers should not print images that had already been seen by hundreds of millions online.
Royals mull complaint over naked Harry photo
