PRINCE Harry will be accompanied by a Royal Marine who had both his legs blown off in Afghanistan during his visit to New York this weekend.
Joe Townsend, 21, will join the Prince when he meets wounded US troops at a veterans’ hospital.
He and his mother, Deborah Hawkins, who will accompany her son on the trip, will have a private tea with Harry while in New York. Mr Townsend, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, lost one leg completely and the other to the knee when he stepped on a land mine in Helmand Province, in southern Afghanistan, in February last year.
It will be the first time he has met the 24-year-old Prince, who served in Afghanistan for 10 weeks.
