Here’s a complete non-story that is raising a bit of a fuss across the pond.
Prince Harry, who has gained a reputation as a royal “wild child”, hit the headlines again on Saturday with reports he visited a lap-dancing club.
Harry visited the Spearmint Rhino club at Colnbrook, west of London, with friends early on Friday to celebrate the end of his army officer training at the elite Sandhurst military academy, several newspapers reported.
The Sun newspaper — in a front-page story headlined “Dirty Harry” — said the prince, 21, and his friends swigged lager and ogled topless girls.
The Daily Mirror said Harry “sat with a stripper on his lap” after arriving at the club at 3 a.m.
The office of Prince Charles declined comment.
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While the story caused a stir in the media, some royal pundits rallied to Harry’s defence.
“It’s a pretty tough course (at Sandhurst) and they were celebrating, just having a nice time,” novelist Jilly Cooper, a friend of Charles and Camilla, told BBC News 24 television. “There’s nothing wrong with going to a strip club, it’s just a laugh, I think.”
I really don’t see any big deal here. Military officer candidates, upon completion of training, going out for a night of frothy drinks and bouncing eye candy? Surely that’s not unprecedented. Heck, even former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the dear ol’ Iron Lady herself, visited a stripper club almost a year ago almost to the day.