Prince Harry to return to America but will stay clear of Las Vegas

The prince will visit several cities focusing on military charities, his work with AIDS orphans and the landmine charity that was close to his mother Diana’s heart

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Prince Harry is returning to America for the first time since his naked Las Vegas picture scandal.
This time a visit to Sin City is - unsurprisingly - not on the prince's itinerary.
Harry is returning this May fully clothed and with a more serious agenda.
The prince will visit Washington, Denver, Colorado Springs, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in an official visit that focuses on military charities, his work with AIDS orphans and the landmine charity that was close to his mother Diana’s heart.

He will also take a poignant tour to an area badly destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, although will not visit those affected by December’s brutal school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, because it was decided it would be “too raw” for the families.
The 28-year-old prince has personally chosen many of the destinations, and his Private Secretary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton said Harry sees himself as a “soldier’s soldier” keen to champion military charities.
Jamie said: “Prince Harry wants to highlight once again the extraordinary commitment and sacrifice of our injured service men and women - our wounded warriors.
“Although a Prince, Harry is also an operational soldier - indeed he’s a soldier’s soldier - therefore the recurring theme is to help recognise and bring a spotlight onto the work being done to help these outstanding young men and women.”

 Harry will be steering well clear of Sin City Las Vegas where his infamous partying last August resulted in naked pictures of him being posted on the Internet in an incident he later admitted ‘let his family down’.
Instead he will use his cheeky charm to encourage donations to his charities in a tour beginning on May 9 in Washington’s Capitol Hill with a visit to a Halo Trust exhibition on landmine clearance.
The charity was made famous by his late mother Princess Diana who walked through a live minefield to highlight victims’ plights just eight months before her death in 1997.
Harry will also meet wounded servicemen and women at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, many who may have been in Afghanistan while he was undertaking his own tour of duty as an Apache helicopter pilot earlier this year.
Other highlights include an appearance at the opening ceremony of the annual Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, a Paralympic-style event for people injured in combat.
St James’s Palace said this trip was the inspiration behind the whole tour after Harry went as a spectator last year and loved it so much.
In New York he will support the government’s Great Campaign to promote the UK around the world as well as attending a community baseball event with the country’s major league baseball stars.
He will also be the guest of honour at a glitzy Manhattan fundraiser for the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry where well-heeled guests will attend after making an undisclosed “minimum donation” to the cause.
On the final day, May 15, he will play in the fourth annual Sentebale Polo Cup to raise money for his children’s charity in Lesotho, one of the world’s poorest countries.
Because the trip is a mixture of his own charitable interests, Government work and military engagements it will partly be funded by Harry’s charities and partly by the Sovereign Grant.
All of the Prince’s flights will be on commercial services and his entourage will be made up of five people - two press officers, a tour manager, adviser Sir David Manning and Mr Lowther-Pinkerton.