By . Rebecca English . and Harriet Arkell . PUBLISHED: . 14:31 EST, 21 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:49 EST, 21 January 2013 . Prince Harry has said it is 'easy to forget' who he is in the Army in a candid interview ahead of his return to the UK . There is only one rule as far as the soldier prince is concerned: Work hard, play hard. But in one of the most candid admissions of his interview, Harry remarks that a concerned Prince Charles frequently attempts to remind him of what is required of the third in line to the throne. Harry confesses he ‘let himself and his family down’ after being photographed cavorting naked in Las Vegas last year, but, unsurprisingly given his comments, is largely unrepentant. The 28-year-old royal concedes he should have acted in a more ‘princely’ manner but says the media should never have published ‘private’ photos of him playing strip billiards with a group of women he had met in his hotel bar. Like many headstrong young men, Harry says he shrugs off his father’s wise words of caution, even if he is heir to the throne. ‘My father’s always trying to remind me about who I am and stuff like that. But it’s very easy to forget about who I am when I am in the Army. Everyone’s wearing the same uniform and doing the same kind of thing,’ he says. ‘I have always said work hard, play hard. I will always be enjoying the job … however long it may carry on for, and then I have the other job to fall back on.’ He adds: ‘Certain people remind me, “Remember who you are, so don’t always drop your guard”. At the end of the day I probably let myself down [in Vegas], I let my family down, I let other people down. ‘But I was in a private area and there should be a certain amount of privacy that one should expect. Back at home all my close friends rallied around me and were great. Prince Harry on his controversial Las Vegas trip, left, and right, his father hard at work in Liverpool today . One of the boys: Prince Harry says everyone is the same in the army and he enjoys blending in . ‘It was probably a classic case of me being too much Army and not enough prince. It’s a simple case of that.’ The leaked pictures were taken on a . riotous boys-only pre-deployment holiday to Vegas last summer, weeks . before he flew out to Afghanistan. They show a naked Harry cupping his . genitals as he hugs an unnamed blonde, who is also nude. The pair had . apparently been playing a game of strip billiards. It is believed the . photos, sold to a US entertainment website, were taken by one of the . guests invited back to his £5,000-a-night suite in the Wynn Hotel. Their publication provoked a debate . over whether Harry violated his own privacy in showing such a lapse of . judgment, and raised questions over the role of his taxpayer-funded . Scotland Yard protection officers. A rare glimpse of his day job: Prince Harry inspects his Apache helicopter before take-off from Camp Bastion . HRH Prince Harry inspects his Apache Helicopter before lift off on a night mission from Camp Bastion . Although the pictures were seen around . the world, his solicitors threatened action against any UK newspaper . that published them. Only one, the Sun, chose to do so but St James’s . Palace took no further action. Harry, however, says it is ‘unacceptable’ that anything was published, knowing that he was about to be deployed. ‘Yes people might look at it going, . “Yes it was letting off steam, it’s all understandable now, he was going . off to Afghanistan”. 'Well, the papers knew that I was going out to . Afghanistan anyway, so the way I was treated by them I don’t think is . acceptable.’ Harry openly admits that one of the . reasons he likes his job as an Apache pilot so much is that it takes him . away from the media interest. Hard at work: Captain Wales, as he is known in the army, in the cockpit of his Apache helicopter . Harry walks towards the VHR (very high ready-ness) tent to start his 12 hour shift, at Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan . But he says that being in the Royal . Family requires both himself and his brother to constantly ‘flick a . switch’ between their different personas. ‘There are three “me”s – one . in the Army, one sort of socially in my own private time, and then one . with the family and stuff like that,’ he says. ‘No one back home gets to see the . stuff that I do while I’m at work and there’s no reason why they . should... So whenever anybody sees me they presume that I’m off . gallivanting around.’ Although he repeatedly says he . ‘doesn’t want to whinge’, Harry lays the blame for his ‘bad boy’ public . person at the feet of the media. HRH Prince Harry (foreground) or just plain Captain Wales as he is known in the British Army, relaxes with computer football games with his fellow Apache Helicopter crew, in Camp Bastion . Prince Harry celebrates after scoring a goal during computer football game with his fellow Apache Helicopter Pilot Capt Simon Beattie (left) Prince Harry relaxes with fellow Pilots in their VHR (very high ready-ness) at the British controlled flight-line in Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan . ‘My father always says, “Don’t read . it, it’s rubbish” [but] I am surprised how many people in the UK do . actually read it. Of course, if something is written about me I want to . know what is said,’ he says. ‘I don’t believe there is such a thing . as a private life any more ... I am not going to sit here and whinge . [but] there’s the internet, there’s Twitter. 'Everyone’s phone has a . camera on it now. You can’t move an inch without people judging you, . that’s the way life goes.’ Asked how far his mistrust of the . media goes back, Harry says sharply: ‘I think it’s fairly obvious how . far back it goes. It’s when I was very small.’ But he adds: ‘But at least I have a job, many other people don’t.’
Soldier prince says his army officer job means he often forgets who he is .
The 28-year-old says Prince Charles tells him 'Remember who you are'
He says his Las Vegas pictures were 'too much army, not enough prince'
But Harry says he ought to be afforded a 'certain amount of privacy'
By . Rebecca English . and Harriet Arkell . PUBLISHED: . 14:31 EST, 21 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:49 EST, 21 January 2013 . Prince Harry has said it is 'easy to forget' who he is in the Army in a candid interview ahead of his return to the UK . There is only one rule as far as the soldier prince is concerned: Work hard, play hard. But in one of the most candid admissions of his interview, Harry remarks that a concerned Prince Charles frequently attempts to remind him of what is required of the third in line to the throne. Harry confesses he ‘let himself and his family down’ after being photographed cavorting naked in Las Vegas last year, but, unsurprisingly given his comments, is largely unrepentant. The 28-year-old royal concedes he should have acted in a more ‘princely’ manner but says the media should never have published ‘private’ photos of him playing strip billiards with a group of women he had met in his hotel bar. Like many headstrong young men, Harry says he shrugs off his father’s wise words of caution, even if he is heir to the throne. ‘My father’s always trying to remind me about who I am and stuff like that. But it’s very easy to forget about who I am when I am in the Army. Everyone’s wearing the same uniform and doing the same kind of thing,’ he says. ‘I have always said work hard, play hard. I will always be enjoying the job … however long it may carry on for, and then I have the other job to fall back on.’ He adds: ‘Certain people remind me, “Remember who you are, so don’t always drop your guard”. At the end of the day I probably let myself down [in Vegas], I let my family down, I let other people down. ‘But I was in a private area and there should be a certain amount of privacy that one should expect. Back at home all my close friends rallied around me and were great. Prince Harry on his controversial Las Vegas trip, left, and right, his father hard at work in Liverpool today . One of the boys: Prince Harry says everyone is the same in the army and he enjoys blending in . ‘It was probably a classic case of me being too much Army and not enough prince. It’s a simple case of that.’ The leaked pictures were taken on a . riotous boys-only pre-deployment holiday to Vegas last summer, weeks . before he flew out to Afghanistan. They show a naked Harry cupping his . genitals as he hugs an unnamed blonde, who is also nude. The pair had . apparently been playing a game of strip billiards. It is believed the . photos, sold to a US entertainment website, were taken by one of the . guests invited back to his £5,000-a-night suite in the Wynn Hotel. Their publication provoked a debate . over whether Harry violated his own privacy in showing such a lapse of . judgment, and raised questions over the role of his taxpayer-funded . Scotland Yard protection officers. A rare glimpse of his day job: Prince Harry inspects his Apache helicopter before take-off from Camp Bastion . HRH Prince Harry inspects his Apache Helicopter before lift off on a night mission from Camp Bastion . Although the pictures were seen around . the world, his solicitors threatened action against any UK newspaper . that published them. Only one, the Sun, chose to do so but St James’s . Palace took no further action. Harry, however, says it is ‘unacceptable’ that anything was published, knowing that he was about to be deployed. ‘Yes people might look at it going, . “Yes it was letting off steam, it’s all understandable now, he was going . off to Afghanistan”. 'Well, the papers knew that I was going out to . Afghanistan anyway, so the way I was treated by them I don’t think is . acceptable.’ Harry openly admits that one of the . reasons he likes his job as an Apache pilot so much is that it takes him . away from the media interest. Hard at work: Captain Wales, as he is known in the army, in the cockpit of his Apache helicopter . Harry walks towards the VHR (very high ready-ness) tent to start his 12 hour shift, at Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan . But he says that being in the Royal . Family requires both himself and his brother to constantly ‘flick a . switch’ between their different personas. ‘There are three “me”s – one . in the Army, one sort of socially in my own private time, and then one . with the family and stuff like that,’ he says. ‘No one back home gets to see the . stuff that I do while I’m at work and there’s no reason why they . should... So whenever anybody sees me they presume that I’m off . gallivanting around.’ Although he repeatedly says he . ‘doesn’t want to whinge’, Harry lays the blame for his ‘bad boy’ public . person at the feet of the media. HRH Prince Harry (foreground) or just plain Captain Wales as he is known in the British Army, relaxes with computer football games with his fellow Apache Helicopter crew, in Camp Bastion . Prince Harry celebrates after scoring a goal during computer football game with his fellow Apache Helicopter Pilot Capt Simon Beattie (left) Prince Harry relaxes with fellow Pilots in their VHR (very high ready-ness) at the British controlled flight-line in Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan . ‘My father always says, “Don’t read . it, it’s rubbish” [but] I am surprised how many people in the UK do . actually read it. Of course, if something is written about me I want to . know what is said,’ he says. ‘I don’t believe there is such a thing . as a private life any more ... I am not going to sit here and whinge . [but] there’s the internet, there’s Twitter. 'Everyone’s phone has a . camera on it now. You can’t move an inch without people judging you, . that’s the way life goes.’ Asked how far his mistrust of the . media goes back, Harry says sharply: ‘I think it’s fairly obvious how . far back it goes. It’s when I was very small.’ But he adds: ‘But at least I have a job, many other people don’t.’
Harry has said it is 'easy to forget' who he is concerned Prince Charles frequently attempts to largely unrepentant. The 28-year-old royal Harry says he shrugs off his father’s wise words should be a certain amount of privacy that one his controversial Las Vegas trip, left, and much Army and not enough prince. It’s a simple Although the pictures were seen around . the