Harry faces prospect of further exposure
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August 25, 2012, Saturday
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BRITAIN'S most prominent public relations guru said yesterday that he had been approached by two women about selling their photos of Prince Harry, suggesting that the world may soon be seeing more of the unusually exposed British royal.
Max Clifford told BBC television he had been approached by two American women who claim they were in the prince's hotel room in the US last week. Clifford, famous for negotiating kiss-and-tell interviews, said the women were trying to sell their photographs, but he had turned them down.
"Two people at that party came to me and asked me, would I represent them? Would I sell their photos?" he said. "I said 'no.'"
Harry was photographed romping in the nude during a party at his Las Vegas hotel suite. The pictures - published by celebrity gossip site TMZ earlier this week - caused a global stir. Many Britons have laughed off the 27-year-old prince's hijinks, but questions have been raised about the prince's security detail.
On Thursday, TMZ claimed "several girls" had taken pictures using their cell phones as the party got started and "more photos were taken" after the clothes came off. Neither TMZ nor Clifford has made clear whether they believe the unreleased photographs show the prince in the nude.
Clifford, a key player in many of Britain's biggest tabloid scandals, said he turned the women down because he could not justify the sale to himself.
British publications have largely steered clear of the photographs, with the prominent exception of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The Sun, which became the first paper to splash the pictures across its front page yesterday with the words: "HEIR IT IS!" and marketing the grainy photograph as a "souvenir printed edition."
The paper claimed there was a public interest in knowing what the prince - who represented the queen at the 2012 Olympics - got up to abroad.
Elisabeth Murdoch, Murdoch's daughter, said she supported The Sun's decision.
Speaking at the International Television Festival in Edinburgh, she said she felt bad for the prince, but that the photos were already all over the Internet.
"It would be very sad if we lived in a world where we can't publish that picture," she said.
Max Clifford told BBC television he had been approached by two American women who claim they were in the prince's hotel room in the US last week. Clifford, famous for negotiating kiss-and-tell interviews, said the women were trying to sell their photographs, but he had turned them down.
"Two people at that party came to me and asked me, would I represent them? Would I sell their photos?" he said. "I said 'no.'"
Harry was photographed romping in the nude during a party at his Las Vegas hotel suite. The pictures - published by celebrity gossip site TMZ earlier this week - caused a global stir. Many Britons have laughed off the 27-year-old prince's hijinks, but questions have been raised about the prince's security detail.
On Thursday, TMZ claimed "several girls" had taken pictures using their cell phones as the party got started and "more photos were taken" after the clothes came off. Neither TMZ nor Clifford has made clear whether they believe the unreleased photographs show the prince in the nude.
Clifford, a key player in many of Britain's biggest tabloid scandals, said he turned the women down because he could not justify the sale to himself.
British publications have largely steered clear of the photographs, with the prominent exception of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The Sun, which became the first paper to splash the pictures across its front page yesterday with the words: "HEIR IT IS!" and marketing the grainy photograph as a "souvenir printed edition."
The paper claimed there was a public interest in knowing what the prince - who represented the queen at the 2012 Olympics - got up to abroad.
Elisabeth Murdoch, Murdoch's daughter, said she supported The Sun's decision.
Speaking at the International Television Festival in Edinburgh, she said she felt bad for the prince, but that the photos were already all over the Internet.
"It would be very sad if we lived in a world where we can't publish that picture," she said.
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