Share this page using one of the following services: by The Associated Press Britain’s Prince Harry, shown in June 2008, starts his first official
visit to America on Friday. On Friday, Prince Harry will start his first official visit to America, with plans including a stop at the World Trade Center site, meetings with wounded veterans and a polo match. “Prince Harry is well known and respected in the United States for having deployed alongside U.S. forces in Afghanistan,” said Alan Collins, the British consul general in New York. Third in line to the British throne, the red-haired prince is a much-watched member of the royal family on both sides of the Atlantic. His party-boy image, romantic escapades and brushes with scandal regularly make newspaper headlines. Several years ago, Harry had to apologize for wearing a Nazi swastika armband to a friend’s costume party.
But the younger son of the late Princess Diana and Prince Charles plans, no doubt, to be on his best behavior representing his country’s crown during his two-day New York visit.