Meghan Markle Introduces Prince Harry at 2025 Invictus Games Opening
Meghan Markle kicked off the 2025 Invictus Games with a rousing speech about her Canadian homecoming on Friday, February 7
Meghan Markle kicked off the 2025 Invictus Games with an impromptu speech during the opening events.
âWell, hello, you. Hi, everybody. How are we feeling?â Meghan, 43, said in her Friday, February 7, remarks, per social media footage, âSo, I was not planning on speaking tonight and we just arrived a couple hours ago. I touched Canadian soil and I was like, âAh, feels like home.â We are so excited.â
Meghan, who lived in Toronto for several years while filming Suits, recently traveled with husband Prince Harry from their home in Montecito, California to Vancouver for this yearâs Invictus Games. Harry, 40, had founded the competition as a way to support wounded veterans. (The prince previously served 10 years in the British Army ahead of his 2018 marriage to Meghan.)
This weekend kicks off Invictus programming in the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Whistler.
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âWe also recognize most of you are probably so exhausted from how much travel youâve done, how much adrenaline you have pumping [and] how excited you are for what is going to be one of the most outstanding, memorable, unforgettable and connected week,â Meghan mused on Friday, dressed in a chic black dress. âWe are so thrilled to be here.â
Meghan had the honor of introducing someone âvery importantâ to her, Harry, and teased that the Duke of Sussex couldnât wait to cheer on the athletes and even try out some of the sports for himself.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Karwai Tang/WireImage
âHeâll be cheering you on at wheelchair basketball, heâll be going down the luge â the thing that I will never do,â she quipped. âMy husband will probably do [it] three times because he wants to do it with you and heâs in it with you. Youâll see him through all those moments; heâll be there with you. What you wonât have seen all the moments that happened in the lead-up to these Games.â
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According to Meghan, Harry balanced planning the Invictus programs with âthe big rush in the morning and getting ready for school and packing the lunches.â (Meghan and Harry share son Prince Archie, 5, and daughter Princess Lilibet, 3.)
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âAnd my husbandâs in all of that with us and then heâll be on his phone and Archie will say, âPapa, why are you on your phone?ââ Meghan recalled. âHeâll be like, âBecause itâs Invictus. Iâm getting ready for Invictus.â It means so much to him. You are his family, just as we are his family.â
Meghan further hoped the Invictus attendees could recognize âhow much of [Harryâs] heartâ was poured into making the event a rousing success.
âI need you to know how much it means to him and how much each of you means to him,â Meghan added. âIt is my complete honor to introduce my husband [and] the father of our very sweet, excited children who are cheering you on from California.â
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