Prince Harry Plans NYC Visit

Trip At End Of May Marks First Formal Overseas Engagement; Will Tour World Trade Center Site

(AP)  Prince Harry is going to New York for his first formal overseas engagements outside Britain.

It will also be the 24-year-old royal's first visit to the United States since the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

The trip is in part intended to help ease the prince into his royal role, St. James's Palace announced.

The prince is due begin a two-day trip with a visit to the World Trade Center site on May 29. The next day, he is due to take part in a charity polo match on Governor's Island intended to raise cash for his Lesotho-based charity, Sentebale.

The visit is due to combine fundraising events like the polo match with official functions.

Harry trip is scheduled to take in a visit to the Harlem's Children's Zone, a nonprofit community-focus organization that has operated since the 1970s. Accompanying him will be Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, the co-founder of Harry's charity.

The third in line to the British throne will also attend a naming ceremony for the British Memorial Garden in Hanover Square, which commemorates the British victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, and visit the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manhattan to meet with wounded veterans.

Harry is also scheduled to attend a private reception in support of New York's British interests.

[Kauramarjit]

I think that the Royals are wonderful people and the bad comments that are being passed are just a waste of time and people are envious for who they are. Personally, I believe that the royals have a sense of dignity and pride and everyone should know that. It's because of all the publicity that they receive makes some of us envious and do not get credit for being them. I love the royals and I wish them the best of everything in life. Good luck.
Yours sincerely
Amarjit Kaur from Malaysia

[schizobeck]

It would be so nice if, when the British Royals visit, they would appear on a national talkshow or two, maybe one of the more light-hearted less newsy shows. When they visit, most Americans don't get to see much other than a couple lines in a newspaper or 30 seconds on a news program.

An appearance on a show, perhaps equivalent to the Brit's Graham Norton Show, would give more Americans the opportunity to really feel like a visit from the British Royals connects with them besides just politicians and the media.

Maybe Dave Letterman (since the prince is in New York) or Live With Regis and Kelly (also in New York) would be satisfactory choices.

[vittoria1]

Well, his mother was a truly sick woman, who should have been under a psychiatrist's care from early childhood, and his father was raised according to an Edwardian conception of royalty. Let's hope that Prince Harry and Prince William have moved beyond their mother's serious emotional problems and their father's ridiculous and anachronistic intellectual limitations.

[catbilllou]

Harry's portrait should've been painted by Rockwell.That's George Lincoln Rockwell...

[erasmus111]

Accompanying him will be Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, the co-founder of Harry's charity

where the heck is Lesotho...?? Is that even a real country?...I got to start getting out of the bars and travling to exotic countries like Lesotho!!
Posted by marybethinct

And take Kelly Pickler with you!
Posted by dagrandma at 10:27 AM : May 13, 2009

YES! PLEASE!

[pw08-2009]

I'm sure that when he arrives, our wonderful news agancies will be reporting nothing else. Of course, our enlightened female population will be completely concerned about what he's wearing and the media will, of course cater to that need.

[summarex]

where the heck is Lesotho...??

Oh! Talk about ignorant!

My Grandpa used to drive a Lesotho!

[vittoria1]

dagrandma, there is no reason to believe that the late Princess of Wales was actually "examined" to certify her virginity before she married. I think that's merely an oft-repeated popular myth. No one would have been bothering to do that -- to insult a young woman that way -- in 1981. All the royals wanted was for Prince Charles to marry a woman who had no obvious scandalous past that could be dug up by the tabloids. I suppose it's possible that Diana underwent a medical examination to make sure that there were no easily-identifiable reasons why she couldn't have children, but as the case of Princess Masako of Japan proves, even doctors can't necessarily predict these things.

As for Prince Harry, he has always looked far more like a Windsor than his brother did until recently, and no one has ever questioned Prince William's paternity. In fact, Prince Harry is looking more and more like Prince Charles every day, and there is a resemblance between him and some of his Windsor cousins as well.

[kerry4ever]

I hope he hasn't packed his Nazi uniform or his marijuana.

[dagrandma]

If there ever was a reason for Prince Charles to Divorce Dianna...here is proof. Prince Harry is clearly NOT Charles' son..he looks much more like a military man she was dating during their marriage and whoops got pregnant by..how did that happen?
Posted by apple2pie

In the first place, the only real resemblance between Prince Harry and James Hewitt is the hair color. You should take a look at his Uncle, Diana's brother, and there you will find the similarities.

In the second place, "If there ever was a reason for Prince Charles to Divorce Dianna..." You're kidding, right? As you may recall, Diana was examined to be certain she was a virgin before her wedding day. As you may also recall, Charles and Camilla exchanged gifts before Charles married Diana.