Maybe the Royal Family didn’t approve the naked pictures of young Prince Harry but his fans are supporting the prince 100%.
Nearly 33,000 people had joined the Facebook group ‘Support Prince Harry With A Naked Salute!’ and many of the servicemen and women posed completely naked, using their hands or strategically placed guns, caps or rucksacks to protect their modesty as Daily Mail reports.
And ordinary civilians have imaginatively employed guitars, straw hats and even cereal boxes to mask their modesty as they beam into the camera.
In recently added photos to the website, a group of injured soldiers beam with their instructors as they all keep their private parts out of view.
It has become so popular that military personnel from around the world, including Israel and the US, have posted photos of themselves in the nude.
The page was set up by ex-soldier Jordan Wylie, 28, from Blackpool, after grainy pictures emerged of a naked Prince Harry – along with two nude girls – taken during a game of strip billiards in his £5,100-a-night suite at the Encore Wynn Hotel in Vegas.
Mr Wylie said: ‘It was outrageous [that] Harry was criticised for his antics in Las Vegas because he is just one of the lads.
‘He might be a royal but he is also a hard-working Apache helicopter pilot and he wants to have some fun. I’m sure Harry will be quietly smiling about the Facebook group.’ He may, however, be less amused by claims yesterday that a video of the romp exists.
The 27-year-old royal, a captain in the Army Air Corps, is expected to be reprimanded for his behaviour when he returns from leave in a few weeks’ time.
As for his brothers (and sisters) in arms, a source close to the Army said it would be up to the commanding officers of individual soldiers in the photographs to decide if disciplinary action would be taken.