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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had been noticed on the 2025 Invictus Games opening ceremony cheering on the competing athletes.
Harry, 40, and Meghan, 42, had been photographed within the stands as they watched the opening ceremony for the 2025 competitors, which started on Saturday, February 8, and was held at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver. The opening ceremony featured performances from Katy Perry, Noah Kahan, Nelly Furtado and Roxane Bruneau.
The Duke of Sussex is internet hosting this 12 months’s video games in each Vancouver and Whistler, Canada, from its opening ceremony on February 8 till Sunday, February 16. The closing ceremony, nevertheless, will embody performances from Jelly Roll, Barenaked Women and The Struggle and Treaty, and can happen at Rogers Enviornment in Vancouver.
Robyn McVicker, Chief Working Officer of the Invictus Video games, instructed Individuals in November 2024 that Harry had “enter” within the headlining acts for each ceremonies.
“We’ve been thrilled to have the ability to work with him on the method to the [ceremonies]. We’ve saved him posted about shortlists and what we’re speaking about. He’s had enter,” McVicker mentioned.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage through Getty Photographs
Harry, who served 10 years within the British Military earlier than marrying Meghan in 2018, based the competitors for injured, wounded or sick servicemen in 2014. This 12 months, round 550 athletes from 25 nations are anticipated to compete in quite a lot of sports activities, together with wheelchair curling, wheelchair basketball, alpine snowboarding, sitting volleyball and indoor rowing.
“It’s very important to him as a soldier, it’s crucial to him as an individual,” Dominic Reid, CEO of the Invictus Video games Basis, mentioned in an interview with Individuals on Wednesday, February 5.
Reid continued, “All of us get one thing from it for our personal causes. However he has created extraordinary alternatives to a rare variety of individuals. They really feel seen and heard and cared about.”
As for the opening ceremony, Meghan kicked off the 2025 Invictus Games on Saturday with an impromptu speech by which she praised her husband for his dedication to the occasion.
“He’ll be cheering you on at wheelchair basketball, he’ll be taking place the luge — the factor that I’ll by no means do,” she mentioned in her speech. “My husband will most likely do [it] 3 times as a result of he needs to do it with you and he’s in it with you. You’ll see him by way of all these moments; he’ll be there with you. What you received’t have seen all of the moments that occurred within the lead-up to those Video games.”
She added, “I would like you to understand how a lot it means to him and the way a lot every of you means to him. It’s my full honor to introduce my husband [and] the daddy of our very candy, excited kids who’re cheering you on from California.”
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had been noticed on the 2025 Invictus Games opening ceremony cheering on the competing athletes.
Harry, 40, and Meghan, 42, had been photographed within the stands as they watched the opening ceremony for the 2025 competitors, which started on Saturday, February 8, and was held at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver. The opening ceremony featured performances from Katy Perry, Noah Kahan, Nelly Furtado and Roxane Bruneau.
The Duke of Sussex is internet hosting this 12 months’s video games in each Vancouver and Whistler, Canada, from its opening ceremony on February 8 till Sunday, February 16. The closing ceremony, nevertheless, will embody performances from Jelly Roll, Barenaked Women and The Struggle and Treaty, and can happen at Rogers Enviornment in Vancouver.
Robyn McVicker, Chief Working Officer of the Invictus Video games, instructed Individuals in November 2024 that Harry had “enter” within the headlining acts for each ceremonies.
“We’ve been thrilled to have the ability to work with him on the method to the [ceremonies]. We’ve saved him posted about shortlists and what we’re speaking about. He’s had enter,” McVicker mentioned.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage through Getty Photographs
Harry, who served 10 years within the British Military earlier than marrying Meghan in 2018, based the competitors for injured, wounded or sick servicemen in 2014. This 12 months, round 550 athletes from 25 nations are anticipated to compete in quite a lot of sports activities, together with wheelchair curling, wheelchair basketball, alpine snowboarding, sitting volleyball and indoor rowing.
“It’s very important to him as a soldier, it’s crucial to him as an individual,” Dominic Reid, CEO of the Invictus Video games Basis, mentioned in an interview with Individuals on Wednesday, February 5.
Reid continued, “All of us get one thing from it for our personal causes. However he has created extraordinary alternatives to a rare variety of individuals. They really feel seen and heard and cared about.”
As for the opening ceremony, Meghan kicked off the 2025 Invictus Games on Saturday with an impromptu speech by which she praised her husband for his dedication to the occasion.
“He’ll be cheering you on at wheelchair basketball, he’ll be taking place the luge — the factor that I’ll by no means do,” she mentioned in her speech. “My husband will most likely do [it] 3 times as a result of he needs to do it with you and he’s in it with you. You’ll see him by way of all these moments; he’ll be there with you. What you received’t have seen all of the moments that occurred within the lead-up to those Video games.”
She added, “I would like you to understand how a lot it means to him and the way a lot every of you means to him. It’s my full honor to introduce my husband [and] the daddy of our very candy, excited kids who’re cheering you on from California.”