Prince Harry And Facebook: 'Friends' No More

Seems Britain's Prince Harry took Olympic hero Ryan Lochte's "Watch every move you make" caveat to heart.

The London gold-medalist swimmer claimed fellow gilded American Michael Phelps warned him after Lochte's break-out performance earlier this month that the media would become curious and ravenous quickly. Less than a month later, Lochte was having a good old time with the U.K. royal shortly before Harry was photographed and slathered across TMZ with his paws covering his meat and two veg after a losing round of Las Vegas strip poker last weekend.

Lochte did Harry the kindness in the wake of Harry's nude photos of passing along the sage-like wisdom, and it seems the suggestion perhaps didn't fall on deaf ears after all. Perez Hilton reported Monday morning that the member of the monarchy - pun intended - has deleted a Facebook account maintained under a discrete alias. There's no early indication what, if any, incriminating morsels might now be lost to the sands of the Internet, but he was known on the social network simply as "Spike Wells."

Harry's friends Tom Inskip and Arthur Landon have also shut down their own accounts. The Prince's deletion came at the reported suggestion of personal secretary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton.

Well, what an intriguing, novel concept: cut off the most public lines of communication, and it just might explode a paparazzi ammunition depot. The less you tell the public, the less the public can say? It's not surefire kill-switch for gossip, but it damn certainly makes a dent. It's not even as though Harry's livelihood necessarily thrives upon an ever-present public eye - in his case, it simply comes with his territory by birth. 

The Las Vegas incident is "innocent" enough, in that there was little more material harm than the prying eyes of the world upon Harry's naked ass – not that it likely shamed him to a great degree. If completely unchecked, such hounding escalates into what took the life of his mother, Princess Diana. Best to close even the comparatively inconsequential open windows early.

Harry is reportedly also due today to face Royal Air Force brass reprimand over the incident, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.