Britain's royal family has demanded a newspaper correct a story printed alongside a picture of Prince Harry apparently groping a woman's breast, claiming the photograph was out of date.
Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, appeared Tuesday in a front-page newspaper photograph apparently kissing a woman on the cheek and grabbing her breast at a summer party in London.
The Sun, Britain's best-selling newspaper, suggested Harry was cheating on his girlfriend, South African Chelsy Davy, 20, who was overseas while he enjoyed his evening at Boujis, a nightclub in London's fashionable South Kensington neighborhood.
But royal officials later said the pictures were three years old, and taken well before Harry began dating Davy.
"We have contacted The Sun and asked them to make a correction. The pictures are three years out of date," said a spokesman for Clarence House, his father Prince Charles' official London residence.
Under the headline, "Dirty Harry," the daily ran the photograph of Harry, now a 21-year-old army officer, with his elder brother William, now 24, sipping a cocktail and chatting to a young woman in the background of the photo.
Other photographs on inside pages -- headlined "The Booze Brothers" -- show Harry kissing another woman on the cheek.
Harry made a public apology after pictures were published last year of him wearing a Nazi uniform at a "native and colonial" costume party.
In May Harry began training to become an armored reconnaissance troop commander in charge of 11 soldiers and four light tanks, a task that could take him to Iraq or Afghanistan in the coming year.
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