Charlotte Church Rips Tabloids Over Prince Harry Photos

Famed Welsh songstress Charlotte Church doesn't see what was gained by splattering Britain's Prince Harry's naked ass all over tabloid pages.

With the clarification that "I'm not a royalist, I don't sit on either side of the fence," Church believes media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the U.K. press at large stepped out of bounds by publishing naked photos of the British royal taken during a debaucherous-but-private Las Vegas weekend earlier this month. E! News reports Church doesn't think the world's prying, pervy eyes need Murdoch's help.

"The pictures were available on the net if you wanted to see them and if you wanted to form your own opinion," Church told BBC Wales recently. "I don't think they needed to go that step further to print them. It was a private hotel room. I think it was an invasion of his privacy."

Church would know such an invasion when she sees it. Now 26 years old, Murdoch recently paid out approximately $950,000 that compensated Church following the revelation that his now-defunct News Of The World hacked Church's cell phone when she was merely 16-years-old. Church previously testified in Britain's Leveson inquiry into the state of the national media's ethics.

Murdoch has recently defended publishing the pics, like any good politico with feet held squarely to the fire, he also beseeched his audience to "give him a break."

Truthfully? Neither Harry nor Murdoch comes away smelling absolutely rosy, but Church makes the strongest point.

It's an accepted law of the jungle that with celebrity, the famous and infamous must adopt a more realistic expectation of privacy. It doesn't make it "right" that Prince Harry and others can't let their hair down as nonchalantly as the unwashed masses without disproportionately more interest being taken in their hedonism than that of our friends and neighbors.

The ones who cope most effectively and come away with vital pieces of their dignity intact in the end usually achieve that through one of two avenues: being not so much paranoid in decision-making as sensibly conscientious, or simply taking the cameras in stride as long as no grave harm befalls anyone.

Church has an inarguable point that someone was clearly going above and beyond to capture Prince Harry's stark glory, and that's a far different game than snapping him exiting a Starbucks and strolling down a public street.

Additionally, Murdoch may kindly s**t or get off the pot with the "give me a break" plea. You know how you make your living, and what occasional sacrifices of ethics you've made. History suggests it's asking far too much of the Australian mogul, but at least harbor no delusions. The public has a demand, and you profit from meeting it. Consequently, other portions of the people openly detest you as much as, and more often more than, any other outlet. Continue with the business you've chosen, but spare yourself the indignity and us all the induced nausea of pleas for understanding.

Being liked by anybody has been well and truly sacrificed in the name of being a business success. It's the sacrifice members of the media expect around every turn, with almost any given story: someone's going to get their feelings hurt. Murdoch can be a success media executive or be unanimously liked, but the ship to attaining both has long since sailed into the horizon.