The Duke and Duchess of Sussex cheered and clapped as the UK’s group walked onto the stage for the opening ceremony of the Invictus Video games.
Harry and Meghan arrived in Vancouver on Saturday for the seventh version of the video games that have been established by Prince Harry in 2014.
Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Nelly Furtado and Katy Perry are all on account of carry out on the opening occasion.
The president of Boeing Worldwide (which is presenting the video games), Brendan Nelson, advised the ceremony viewers: “Prince Harry has given duty, courage, hope and love a name. Invictus.”
As Mr Nelson advised Prince Harry, “we are proud of you”, the Duchess of Sussex clapped and smiled at her husband, touching his face affectionately.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 Invictus Video games in Vancouver, Canada. Pic: PA
On her Instagram story earlier on Saturday, she shared a video as she posed alongside her husband for an image with Staff USA. She additionally posted a video the place she hugged a lady in a Staff Canada equipment.
Meghan’s attendance is known to underscore her help for her husband and the mission of Invictus, which brings collectively greater than 500 rivals from 23 nations.
It’s the first time the video games will embody winter sports activities.
British veterans and serving personnel who have been injured throughout service departed for Canada earlier this week to participate within the video games. The 62 rivals are all veterans and serving personnel who sustained life-changing accidents or diseases throughout their time within the UK Armed Forces.
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Prince Harry on the Invictus Video games in Dusseldorf. Pic: PA
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Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend an occasion on the 2023 Invictus Video games. Pic: Reuters
The video games have been final held in Dusseldorf in 2023. Invictus 2027 might be held in Birmingham, returning to the UK for the primary time since its inception, when the primary video games have been held in London.
The video games have been impressed after Prince Harry took a visit to the Warrior Video games in 2013, the place he noticed how sport may help injured service personnel of their recoveries.
On the time, Harry labored in partnership together with his then charity The Royal Basis of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, to ship the video games alongside the Ministry of Defence. The primary video games, held in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, introduced collectively 400 rivals from 13 nations world wide
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The Olympic Cauldron at Jack Poole Plaza in Vancouver is lit in celebration, forward of the opening ceremony of the 2025 Invictus Video games in Vancouver, Canada. The video games will happen throughout Vancouver and Whistler. Image date: Saturday February 8, 20
The identify of the video games, Invictus, means ‘unconquered’.
For Meghan and Harry, it has been the backdrop to some key moments of their lives. The couple famously appeared in public collectively for the primary time on the Toronto Invictus Video games in 2017, pictured hand in hand at a wheelchair tennis occasion.
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Meghan and Prince Harry, pictured on the 2017 Invictus Video games. Pic: PA
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It was the primary public outing for the couple. Pic: PA
They attended the 2018 Invictus Video games simply 5 days after saying they have been anticipating their first little one.
Then, simply days after their son Archie was born, Prince Harry travelled to the Netherlands to advertise the 2020 Invictus Video games, which had been on account of happen on the Hague.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended the 2018 video games simply days after saying Meghan’s being pregnant. Pic: PA
These video games have been later delayed to 2022 because of the COVID pandemic, however throughout this preliminary go to he was gifted an Invictus-themed onesie by Princess Margriet.
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Princess Margriet of the Netherlands presents Prince Harry with an outfit for his new child son on the launch of the 2020 Invictus Video games. Pic: AP
Meghan has quite a lot of upcoming initiatives, together with a Netflix sequence With Love, Meghan, which can now be launched on 4 March, after being delayed because of the wildfires in LA.
