Why is Prince Harry visiting New York?”
Prince Harry will travel to New York City this month on a high profile trip that will include a visit to ground zero and a charity polo match. It will be the first time the 24-year-old royal has traveled to the United States since the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997. The trip also will be Harry’s first formal overseas engagement outside Britain. He has frequently traveled abroad, but this will be the first time he officially represents Britain’s royal family on such a trip. It is in part intended to help ease the prince into his royal role, St. James’s Palace announced. He is to begin the two-day trip with a visit to the World Trade Center site on May 29. The next day, he will take part in a charity polo match _ the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic _ on Governor’s Island to raise cash for the U.S arm of his Lesotho-based charity, Sentebale. Harry’s trip will include a visit to Harlem’s Children’s Zone, a nonprofit community-focus organization that ha
NEW YORK (CNN) — Britain’s Prince Harry, the second son of Princess Diana and Prince Charles, will arrive Friday in New York, the site of his first official trip overseas, British officials announced. During his two-day visit, Harry plans to meet with family members of September 11 victims, lay a wreath at ground zero and meet with veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars, royal palace officials said. Harry, 24, served for two months in Afghanistan as a coalition forces soldier in 2007. Also on Harry’s agenda is a formal naming ceremony of Lower Manhattan’s Hanover Square to honor the 67 British victims of the 9/11 attacks, officials said. Harry’s trip also will take him uptown to the Harlem Children’s Zone, where he and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho hope to learn how the nonprofit has succeeded in supporting low-income children, officials said. Following Princess Diana’s example, Harry will use this trip to promote his charity for children, Sentebale. Co-founded with Lesotho’s prince, the cha
