A new report has claimed that there is one aspect of their charitable work above all else that Meghan and Harry want their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to continue when they are grown up
There is one major project that Prince Harry, 40, has been working on for years that he reportedly hopes his children, Prince Archie, five, and Princess Lilibet, three, will take over one day.
He and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, 43, both share the desire that their children will pick up this important part of their legacy when the time comes the new report claimed.
The project is none other than the Invictus Games, which Harry launched back in 2014. The Invictus Games see injured service-people compete at an elite level in a variety of sporting activities and Harry has continued to work on the charitable endeavour since stepping back as a working royal in 2020.
The games were also the subject of a documentary Harry and Meghan produced as part of their multi-year deal with streaming giant Netflix, and the series Heart of Invictus followed competitors readying themselves to take part in the games.
The report in The Express saw an insider source claim that Meghan will be joining Harry at the upcoming winter Invictus Games in Vancouver – where the couple spent time before deciding to leave life as full-time working royals behind for good – from 8 February to 16 February.
“It was important for the Sussexes to appear together at such a worthwhile event,” the source told the outlet, adding that one day Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet will one day continue their parent’s work with injured veterans. “The Invictus Games is a Sussex initiative and something they want their children to continue once they get older.”
In his memoir Spare, Harry explained that the idea for the Invictus Games was inspired after a visit to the US had taken him to the Warrior Games – a similar initiative for wounded former service-people when he witnessed the healing power sport had for the veterans to deal with the wounds they had suffered during their service.
On the way home he considered making something of a bigger scale that could draw a lot of attention to the cause and began working on the project – although it was a long road to making it a reality.
“I realised how badly I wanted this,” Harry wrote when he described the day he pitched it to the Royal Foundation’s Board, “For the soldiers and their families, and if I’m being honest: for myself.”
Once Harry had secured the funding for the project, he enlisted the help of Sir Keith Mills who had helped organise the London 2012 Olympics.
Together they pulled together the first Invictus Games in London in 2014, in line with the 100-year anniversary of the First World War and it was a total “hit”.
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