Prince Harry makes major Invictus Games promise as he concludes 2025 event: ‘From one soldier to another’

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Prince Harry concluded the 2025 Invictus Games in Canada with a poignant speech to competitors and their families.The Duke of Sussex, 40, took to the stage at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Sunday to share a few parting thoughts during the event’s closing ceremony.“O Canada,” Harry sang aloud. “You’ve only gone and done it again.

Did we all have fun?”The former working royal — who founded and launched the Invictus Games in 2014 as multisport Paralympic-styled games for wounded or injured servicemen and veterans — thanked “all Canadians” for hosting this year’s winter sports event.“To our Invictus wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, kids, grandparents and friends, if you can, please stand and be recognized — we salute you,” the duke said. “To our comrades, friends or loved ones who we lost to battle or to suicide, tonight we honor you too.”“To those of you whose journey to these Games has been difficult and uncertain, who questioned whether you would even make it here today, thank you for showing us what is possible.

In the pursuit of saving yourselves, you have also saved all of us.”The runaway royal said each competitor — who is either a former or serving active duty serviceman or servicewoman — gave him “hope through your healing, honesty and humanity.”“And of course through your humor,” he said, adding, “You know exactly what I’m talking about.

It’s an in-house joke.“Our entire Invictus community, whether here tonight or watching from home, is making the world a better place, and you’re doing it by being your awesome selves,” the father of two added.Elsewhere in his poignant speech, Harry vowed to keep the Invictus Games — which last year celebrated its 10th anniversary on his home soil — going for as long as they.