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| Prince Harry is to visit the site of New York's World Trade Center on his first formal overseas engagement. | Prince Harry is to visit the site of New York's World Trade Center on his first formal overseas engagement. |
| Harry, 24, will pay his respects to the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks and meet wounded US war veterans, St James's Palace announced. | Harry, 24, will pay his respects to the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks and meet wounded US war veterans, St James's Palace announced. |
| He will also play a polo match in the city to raise funds for his Sentebale charity, supporting orphans in Lesotho. | He will also play a polo match in the city to raise funds for his Sentebale charity, supporting orphans in Lesotho. |
| The two-day trip at the end of the month will be Harry's first visit to the US since he was a child. | |
| Harry will meet families of those killed in the 11 September terror attacks at the site where the twin towers once stood. | |
| He will then commemorate the 67 UK victims by formally naming the British Garden at Hanover Square, before meeting more families at a reception. | |
| 'Additional poignancy' | |
| Sir Alan Collins, UK consul-general in New York, said the trip would reinforce strong commercial, cultural and historical links between New York and the UK. | |
| "Prince Harry is well known and respected in the United States of America for having deployed alongside US forces in Afghanistan," he said. | |
| That would add additional poignancy to his visit to the World Trade Center, he added. | |
| Harry will also tour the Veterans Affairs Medical Centre in Manhattan, to see prosthetics facilities and a clinic for treating post-traumatic stress disorder. | |
| A young British serviceman who was wounded in Afghanistan will join the prince on this part of the visit. | |
| On 30 May, the second day of the trip, Harry will take part in the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic on Governors Island. | |
| The match will raise funds for American Friends of Sentebale - supporting the prince's African charity. | |
| Prior to that he will meet Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, a co-patron of the charity, and visit the Harlem Children's Zone, a school and support centre for youngsters. | |
| Harry will travel on scheduled flights to and from New York, paid for by the Queen, the Prince's private secretary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton said. |