The Royal Family said on Friday it would not submit a formal complaint with the country's press over the publication of photographs of Prince Harry naked in a Las Vegas hotel room.
The photos of Harry with a topless girl and friends partying surfaced in August. The British newspaper The Sun was the only newspaper in the country to publish the photos, according to Reuters. The photos surfaced in America on the celebrity website TMZ.
The palace said "it would not be prudent to pursue the matter further."
"Having considered the matter now for a number of weeks, we have decided not to pursue a complaint," said a spokeswoman for the palace.
The Palace place contacted the PCC citing publication of the photos in the press would be an invasion of privacy. The Sun published the photos anyway, stating there was "a clear public interest in publishing the Harry pictures, in order for the debate around them to be fully informed."
The prince is currently deployed in Afghanistan, where he will fly attack helicopters in the NATO-lead war against Taliban insurgents.
"Prince Harry is currently focused entirely on his deployment in Afghanistan, so to pursue a complaint relating to his private life would not be appropriate at this time and would prove to be a distraction," the statement later read.
"We remain of the opinion that a hotel room is a private space where its occupants would have a reasonable expectation of privacy."
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