Buckingham Palace intends to deal with the Prince Harry scandal by continuing 'business as usual' royal sources said today.

That much will also be made plain when Harry's paralympic schedule is announced later today.

Harry is an ambassador for the Team GB Paralympics squad, will attend a number of the events over the coming weeks.

Royal sources told the Telegraph he was  not expected to change any of his official commitments in the light of the controversy over his drunken weekend in Las Vegas, which resulted in photographs of him playing a game of “strip billiards” being published around the world.

A Royal source told the paper: “It is just business as usual. There are no changes to his programme at all.”

Harry will not join his grandmother, the Queen, at the high-profile Opening Ceremony of the Games on Wednesday night, but the source stressed that he had never been scheduled to attend.