Harry starts a trend...

Prince Harry's naked antics in his Las Vegas hotel have started a trend; the Mail Online reports:

When military strategists talk about a frontal assault, this isn’t quite what they usually mean.

Thousands of British soldiers have stripped off in a show of support for their comrade Prince Harry, currently in trouble over nude photographs taken in Las Vegas.

From the scorching frontline in Afghanistan to rain-swept barracks in the UK, troops and supporters of the Armed Forces have followed his lead – and then posted the results on the internet, infuriating the top brass.

Many of the servicemen and women are completely naked, using their hands or strategically placed guns, caps or rucksacks to protect their modesty.

In one photograph, men from D Squadron The King’s Royal Hussars posed nude in front of two Mastiff armoured patrol vehicles in Helmand. In another, a naked soldier salutes in front of an Army vehicle with only a plastic bottle to preserve his modesty.

Despite protests that the troops are merely joking around to ease the stress of battle, senior officers are understood to be unimpressed with the near-the-knuckle pranks. By last night more than 16,000 people had joined the Facebook group ‘Support Prince Harry With A Naked Salute!’.

 

We're not sure that Buckingham Palace's occupants will be especially amused by this latest turn of events, but the military traditionally support one of their own when he is in strife.

And the Facebook group supporting Prince Harry now numbers over 30,000 strong; social media has swung behind the Naked Prince with an outpouring of support, or in some of the photo's on the Mail's website and the Facebook page, a decided lack of support!

 

So we salute both the brave men and women of the military for their solidarity with Prince Harry. But we'll keep clothed; you wouldn't want to see us otherwise!