NEW YORK — Prince Harry bowed his head in prayer at ground zero Friday “in admiration of the courage shown by the people of this great city” — as he wrote on a wreath he placed at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack.
The 24-year-old prince — famed for his youthful, at times embarrassing, escapades — is on his first official trip to the United States.
Dressed somberly in a blue suit, red-and-blue striped tie and black toe-cap shoes, he arrived at the World Trade Center just after noon.
On a chain-link fence overlooking the Sept. 11 memorial under construction, Harry attached a wreath of peonies and white and yellow roses. Standing alone, he bowed his head in silence for a few minutes.
His New York fun will come today, when the prince participates in the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic on Governors Island in New York Harbor.
