Dirty Harry pics 'old'
2006-08-16 14:00
London - The Sun newspaper apologised on
Wednesday for printing three-year-old pictures of Prince Harry
groping a woman in a nightclub which it had claimed had been
taken this summer.
Under the headlines "Dirty Harry" and "Squeezer Geezer", the
British daily had run a front page and centre spread of Harry,
21, and his elder brother Prince William, 24, during a raucous
night out with friends.
One of the photos featured Harry squeezing the breast of TV
presenter Natalie Pinkham. The picture, the Sun said on Tuesday,
"may leave Harry with a little explaining to do to girlfriend
Chelsy Davy, who was abroad at the time."
It had claimed the snaps were taken this summer at London
nightclub Boujis, a favourite haunt of the two princes, the sons
of heir to the throne Prince Charles and the late Princess
Diana.
But after a protest from Charles's office, the paper was
forced to print an apology on Wednesday, admitting the pictures
had been taken in 2003 - before Harry met Davy - and at a
different club.
"We accept that the nightclub was the Purple nightclub and
not Boujis as we said and the photographs were taken in autumn
2003 and not summer 2006," the tabloid said.
It also apologised to Pinkham, who had said the photographs
had belonged to her, and promised to make a payment to a charity
of her choice.