Prince Harry’s royal flush

A sheepish Prince Harry surfaced in Los Angeles after photos of his naked and wild Vegas party night hit the Internet. The prince — looking pale under a Panama hat and steadying himself on a Dumpster in a parking lot as he chatted to friends — didn’t look too happy about having to go home to London and face Grandma, Queen Elizabeth II, following the risqué snaps that were taken in a hotel suite Friday night. Unfortunately for the third in line to the British throne, what happens in Vegas doesn’t often stay in Vegas — two pictures were posted online Tuesday night showing him naked in a suite in the Wynn Resort. One showed him beside a pool table hunched over an apparently nude woman holding a pool cue, the other holding his “crown jewels” with a seemingly topless woman hiding behind him. TMZ reported Harry bared all during a game of strip pool after he and his pals invited a group of “hot chicks” to his suite. According to reports, Buckingham Palace officials have been desperately trying to protect Harry’s modesty by asking newspapers not to republish the photos. But the campaign was all rather futile — Harry’s nudity was the talk of Twitter and the Web yesterday.