Ground Zero, Harlem and Polo on Prince’s Itinerary

[underpants]

Source: NY Times

Prince Harry will visit New York City for the first time, May 29 and 30, on his first formal visit abroad, the British Consulate announced on Wednesday.

On May 29, a Friday, the prince will visit the World Trade Center site and participate in the official naming of the British Memorial Garden at Hanover Square in Lower Manhattan. The garden, designed by Isabel and Julian Bannerman, honors victims of 9/11. The prince will also tour a prosthetics lab at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manhattan, learn about the hospital’s post-traumatic stress disorder treatment, and meet American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The next day, Prince Harry is to visit the Harlem Children’s Zone, the educational and social services complex founded by Geoffrey Canada in Central Harlem. Then he is to compete in the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic, a charity match on Governors Island to raise money for the American arm of Sentabale, a charity the prince co-founded, which aids children in Lesotho.

Prince Harry, 24, who is third in line to the British throne, was deployed with the British Army in Afghanistan from the end of 2007 to early 2008. In a carefully orchestrated deal, British news organizations had been given details about the prince’s deployment in exchange for not telling anyone, but the deal crumbled when The Drudge Report broke the news. (Earlier, in 2007, the British military had decided against deploying the prince to Iraq, saying the risks were too great.)

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I've got no problem with this guy. He clearly did more than was expected of him ....until Drudge pulled a "Geraldo"

okay, the Nazi uniform "joke" wasn't cool

[Mike Daniels]

1. All and all, both Harry and William have carried themselves pretty well

compared with other celebrities their age ( of any nationality )

[proteus_lives]

2. A decent guy.

It would be horrible to grow up in the eye of the press.

But he's matured over the years.