Prince Harry To Visit New York By The End Of This Month

June 3rd, 2010 - 6:54 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work  

June 3, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Prince Harry will be making a trip to New York in the last week of June.

His three days long stay in New York will see him visiting some of the military and veteran’s organizations. The main focus of his visit is to support veterans who come back from the war ,wounded, and to find a way about how the British and the American veterans charities can work together to help them.

He will be joined by two young British officers who were themselves injured on operations but have since then being working to improve conditions for fellow injured servicemen and women in the UK.

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, his private secretary said that Prince Harry is well aware of how the American and British soldiers fight together every day on the frontline of Afghanistan and unfortunately get wounded together as well. Pinkerton added that rehabilitation within one’s peer group works best for these soldiers and Prince Harry is trying to find a way to strengthen the transatlantic peer group, to help, the wounded servicemen and women of both countries to completely recover and get their confidence back.

Prince Harry who played in the charity match last year during his first official visit to America will also participate in the third annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on the 27th of June.

Prince Harry is third in line for the British Throne and keeps making newspaper headlines for his wild partying. He is training to become an Apache helicopter pilot which he referred to as one of the biggest challenges of his life so far.

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