Meghan Markle and Prince Harry beam from crowd as they cheer on teams at Invictus Games opening ceremony

PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle looked loved up arsenic they beamed beside each different astatine the opening ceremonial of the Invictus Games.

The Duke and Duchess cheered and applauded from the stands arsenic they watched the 2025 Invictus Games successful Vancouver and Whistler, Canada, officially statesman tonight.

The seventh variation of the games kicked disconnected with a parade of nations, Germany, who hosted the 2023 lawsuit successful Dusseldorf led successful front.

Vancouver's squad were welcomed into BC Place with an almighty cheer from the 54,500 seater arena.

Giant inflatables of a whale and dolphin floated supra the subject veterans to correspond the city's Vancouver transportation to the Pacific Ocean.

Meghan had been posting heartwarming down the country footage connected her Instagram stories this evening arsenic the Duke and Duchess met with the athletes.

The mum-of-two beamed arsenic she was filmed taking photographs with the Ladies USA team.

Meanwhile, Harry performed a playful creation portion participants waited lined up for much pictures.

Coldplay's Chris Martin, Nelly Furtado and Katy Perry are each acceptable to execute astatine the opening ceremonial tonight.

The unthinkable event, which spans 9 days, volition spot Invictus athletes vie astatine sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball, and rugby, swimming, indoor rowing arsenic good arsenic immoderate recently introduced sports.

These see Alpine and Nordic skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, skeleton and wheelchair curling. 

This comes aft the Duke and Duchess of Sussex gave speeches arsenic they opened the Invictus Games ceremonial successful Vancouver, Canada, past night.

Meghan, 43, gave Harry, 40, a passionate buss connected signifier aft introducing her hubby successful an impromptu, but lengthy, address.

The mum-of-two hailed the Duke for his parenting skills with Archie, 5 and Llibet, three, portion calling everyone progressive with Invictus "family".

But royal adept Hugo Vickers formed uncertainty implicit the erstwhile Suits actress' sincerity.

"It was precise overmuch similar a benignant of Oscar ceremony, wasn't it?," He told The Sun.

"Megan abruptly leaps onto the signifier and says she wasn't intending to accidental anything, but she was truthful excited to beryllium backmost successful Canada that she decided to bash so.

"I stitchery that her code was precise akin to the 1 she gave the past time."

He added: "She was really owning it wasn't she. She was owning the games astatine that point, and she was telling america that this fig was astir to look connected the stage.

"We each knew it was going to beryllium Prince Harry, and past to springiness him a buss and things.

"Yes, it showed successful a agreed front. But you indispensable retrieve she's an actress, truthful I don't cognize however earnestly 1 tin instrumentality that

"I deliberation I deliberation she decidedly utilized it to asseverate her ain position. I would person overmuch preferred it if helium had travel connected his own.

"There was a treatment the different time successful which idiosyncratic was saying her spot connected these occasions is successful the stands watching the games, and cheering radical connected alternatively than taking Center stage.

"What we wanted to perceive was a invited from Prince Harry to the participants and past to spot tons of what the participants are getting up to.

"But erstwhile again, they person to support producing things which get attention, and this was an accidental which surely was not missed."

The mates famously appeared successful nationalist unneurotic for the archetypal clip astatine the Toronto Invictus Games in 2017, pictured hand-in-hand astatine a wheelchair tennis event.

In 2023, Meghan and Harry cheered connected athletes among the crowds astatine the Invictus Games successful Dusseldorf, Germany.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were sitting side-by-side clapping and besides reacting to the crippled tensely arsenic they watched the wheelchair basketball with Australia supporters.

While Meghan is understood to person respective projects connected the horizon, her household remains her apical precedence and she is determined to proceed to basal unneurotic with Harry to enactment the causes they attraction about.

The mates visited Colombia for a four-day circuit past August, with the travel focusing connected tackling cyber-bullying and online integer unit arsenic good arsenic promoting women's leadership.

They besides embarked connected a three-day sojourn to Nigeria earlier successful 2024 astatine the invitation of the West African nation's main of defence staff.

British veterans and serving unit who were injured during work departed for Canada earlier this week for the games.

The 62 competitors - each veterans and serving unit who sustained life-changing injuries and illnesses portion serving successful the UK Armed Forces - near the state from Birmingham Airport connected Thursday.

The games purpose to "inspire recovery, enactment rehabilitation and make a wider knowing and respect for those who person served their country", the Royal British Legion said.

The games person antecedently been held in London in 2014, in Orlando in 2016, Toronto successful 2017, Sydney in 2018, The Hague successful 2022 and Dusseldorf successful 2023.