Prince Harry makes heartfelt statement about ‘life-altering’ experience

Prince Harry made a heartfelt speech about a project he has been dedicatedly working on for the past decade as he launched a new programme to support it.

The Duke of Sussex founded the Invictus Games in 2014 as a means to help the wounded, injured and sick veterans to heal through their trauma via adaptive sports.

While promoting the upcoming iteration of the Games in Vancouver on Tuesday, Prince Harry made a touching testament about the impact it has had on his life.

“Seeing them learn about the Invictus Games has had a profound impact on me because this is where Invictus starts to go even wider outside of the Invictus community, into schools in Canada and hopefully around the world,” he said while addressing the audience at Seaforth Armoury, a historic military facility.

“You need to understand what that means to them because that can be a life-altering moment,” he continued. “There’s resilience that has got them there. There’s teamwork that has managed to get them to the starting line, and there’s courage in getting them to that point.

Harry surmised, “For most of them, for some of them, it’s very hard to walk into a busy room, and here they are walking into a stadium of tens of thousands of people.”

Prince Harry, who is currently on a solo visit to Canada without his wife Meghan Markle, was at the facility to launch the online programme to introduce Invictus Games to schools everywhere.

The Winter Invictus Games 2025 are set to kick off for the first time in Vancouver and Whistler in February. The games will see a debut of winter sports including Nordic Skiing, wheelchair curling, snowboarding and alpine skiing.