
Prince Harry.
Eric Charbonneau/Invictus Games Foundation through Getty ImagesPrince Harry They met many friends from list A during the Invictus 2025 Games in Whistler and Vancouver, including Katy Perry, Michael Bublé, Chris Martin, Jelly Roll and Justin Trudeau ((Us Sitting a few ranks behind the Canadian Prime Minister, 53, and the Duke of Sussex40, in an internal rowing match at the Vancouver Convention Center on February 16). But Harry’s most appreciated time was with the athletes In the seventh games, which focus on adaptive sports for injured or injured members of the military, both active and veterans.
The Duke is now a decade larger since he launched the first games in 2014 and explains Use weekly Exclusively does not regret: “Today I have the advantage of vision and subsequent experience, but I would not change anything, unless it still wants that there was no need for invictus games.”
During our chat, which took place after seeing his beloved UK team, he defeated the Nigeria team during a semifinal of volleyball sitting on February 15, Harry explained: “I am grateful for the screen they are putting and for being the humans they are.” The Royal also said that Us on the connection with other goodiers. “I was sitting with a couple of new friends from the Center of Superhumans (Ukraine), where people literally meet again,” he said. “The prosthesis, the psychological support, all this is quite incredible!”
The rehabilitation and healing, of scarring, both visible and invisible, of amputations in the PSD, were in Harry’s mind when he founded Invictus after his own experience with combat and trauma during his ten years of military service. “They will continue to have bad days,” Harry grants his fellow veterinarians in the competition, some of which served in Afghanistan. “But for this week, bad days are very limited … because they realize that they are not isolated, they are not alone. Everyone who surrounds it has something. Once you put all these boys and girls on the same field, they begin to share the stories of others and they realize that … there is nothing wrong.”

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, poses an image with Team UK in the finals of the skeleton during the second day of 2025 Invictus Games.
Samir Hussein/WireimageAfter an unpleasant opening ceremony, the nine -day games, the first to have winter sports, began really in the Whistler Mountains, where Harry and his wife Meghan Markle Skiing, snowboard, biathlon, skeleton and wheelchair, and tried downhill tubes.
Duchess, 43, “has been part of this community shortly after the Orlando Games in 2016 and loved it every minute,” reveals Harry to Us. “There are so many special memories.”
At the Sydney Games 2018, for example, Harry recalled having obtained a “bear hug” of a well -being and “my true concern that I can try the same with my wife, who was pregnant at that time!” While Meghan was going home after Whistler’s portion to be with 5 -year -old Kids Archie and Library, 3 Continued to cheer up -his man through its recent launch and extremely active Instagram account. “Yes, Instagram’s cry was very sweet and much appreciated!” Harry turned to Us.
The 2027 games in Birmingham, the United Kingdom, will be a home meeting in more ways than a King Charles‘Younger. “Birmingham for us is a very, very emotionally connected place. Many of these boys woke up in Birmingham after being exploited in Afghanistan, “says Harry in the city, Queen Elizabeth’s hospital, is often the first stop for injured British soldiers.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, speaks on stage at the Whistler welcome ceremony during the second day of the Invictus Games in 2025.
Samir Hussein/WireimageEverything that Birmingham brings, Harry is ready and open for what is coming. “I have learned, evolved and has been set up by the resilience and brightness of our Invictus community,” he says. “Serving them and their families is still one of the biggest privileges in my life.”
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