Prince Harry issues heartfelt statement about 'courage' on trip without Meghan Markle

Prince Harry joined students astatine the Seaforth Armoury during his travel to Vancouver up of the 2025 Invictus Games wherever helium gave a poignant code astir his emotions

Prince Harry has issued a heartfelt statement arsenic helium continues his solo travel to Canada without Meghan Markle.

The Duke of Sussex spoke of the "profound impact" that has been near connected him arsenic helium launched a schools programme up of adjacent year's Invictus Games. Harry travelled solo to motorboat the programme for the 2025 event, which is owed to beryllium held successful Vancouver and Whistler successful February. He marked the countdown by joining students astatine Seaforth Armoury, a historical subject facility, wherever helium launched an online programme to present the Invictus Games into schools.

In a speech, helium said: "Seeing them larn astir the Invictus Games has had a profound interaction connected maine due to the fact that this is wherever Invictus starts to spell adjacent wider extracurricular of the Invictus community, into schools successful Canada and hopefully astir the world."

Harry, a erstwhile British Army captain, launched the Invictus Games successful 2014 arsenic an planetary sports tourney for injured and wounded work unit and returned veterans. Addressing the crowd, the Duke besides spoke of his emotions successful seeing returned work unit astatine the Games' opening ceremony.

He explained: "You request to recognize what that means to them due to the fact that that tin beryllium a life-altering moment. There's resilience that has got them there. There's teamwork that has managed to get them to the starting line, and there's courageousness successful getting them to that point.

"For astir of them, for immoderate of them, it's precise hard to locomotion into a engaged room, and present they are walking into a stadium of tens of thousands of people." In February, the Duke and Duchess officially kicked disconnected the countdown to the Winter Invictus Games 2025 astatine a peculiar lawsuit successful Whistler. Next year's games volition diagnostic the debut of wintertime sports including Nordic Skiing, wheelchair curling, snowboarding and alpine skiing.

On Sunday, Harry made a astonishment quality connected Canadian TV during its coverage of 1 of the country's apical sporting events. He was astatine the Grey Cup to ticker the large Canadian shot last betwixt the Toronto Argonauts and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

During his time retired astatine the football, Harry was seen beaming to the assemblage and giving them a thumbs up earlier the crippled got underway. During his TV quality connected TSN, helium was asked what helium was astir looking guardant to astir the acquisition of being astatine the Grey Cup last and said: "I'm looking guardant to the crippled getting started - let's go!" Asked astir what presumption he'd play if helium were portion of the Canadian Football League, helium replied: "I deliberation backmost is simply a chill spot to be."

His unexpected solo quality successful Canada came conscionable daysafter woman Meghan besides was seen retired without her husband, dancing the nighttime distant astatine a glitzy Hollywood party. She was spotted celebrating the motorboat of a caller haircare enactment by the brand Highbrow Hippie, which is co-founded by her adjacent pal and Hollywood hairsbreadth colourist, Kadi Lee.