The Sun is NOT making any moral judgement about Harry's nude frolics with girls in a Las Vegas hotel. Far from it. He often sails close to the wind for a Royal — but he's 27, single and a soldier. We like him.
We are publishing the photos because we think Sun readers have a right to see them.
The reasons for that go beyond this one story.
The images were first published on the web three days ago. But the Palace's lawyers, via the Press Complaints Commission, warned the UK's newspapers against printing them, claiming they would breach Harry's privacy and the PCC Code.
Since then the entire UK media — print, online and TV — has reported on them and told readers and viewers how to find them on TMZ.com, the website that first published them, and on countless other sites that followed suit.
That coverage put those pictures a mouse-click away from anyone in the 77 per cent of British households with internet access.
It wasn't long before they challenged each other to a race, egged on by thousands of scantily-clad nightclub-goers. Lochte counted to three and two were off, breaststroking their way to the other side of the pool.
Predictably, Lochte finished first, raising his arms in the sweet taste of victory that can only come from beating a member of the royal family. But Prince Harry took the defeat like a gentleman, hugging Lochte before the two went back to the real meaning of the night: partying.
