EXCLUSIVE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly making arrangements for their two young children to be at a major royal event next year.
Archie and Lilibet could attend the Invictus Games in Vancouver (Image: Alexi Lubomirski/ Duke and Duchess of Sussex)
Although shielded from the public eye and rarely making appearances, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s two children could make their debut appearance at a major event held next year in Canada.
Express.co.uk reveals the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are busy planning for the logisitcs of the Invictus Games opening ceremony in Vancouver in 2025 and are considering taking Prince Archie, five, and Princess Lilibet, three, to the “family focused” event.
The event is scheduled to be held on February 8, 1pm, at BC Place Vancouver and contestants taking part in the Games can also bring their families and young children along.
The source said: “Harry and Meghan are planning to take Archie and Lilibet to help promote a new ‘family-friendly’ Invictus Games.
“The Sussexes have been very involved with the organisational elements of the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler events and it was very much their idea to make this a family-friendly games so that those taking part can bring their children along.”
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Meghan and Harry are preparing to take their two children along to the Invictus Games next year (Image: Getty)
According to the source, Invictus Games organisers have scheduled a week of “family-friendly” summer and winter sporting events to encourage sports fans and wounded veterans to get the younger generation involved.
It is thought Harry’s wishes are for Prince Archie to continue the legacy of the Invictus Games and take ownership when he reaches maturity. The source revealed: “A patronage will one day be passed to Archie so the foundation can be kept within the family. Harry is adamant that the Invictus Games will remain a Sussex initiative.”
After a week of “family-friendly” fun, it is thought the closing ceremony will be an “adult only” occasion and take place at Rogers Arena at 7pm on Sunday, February 16, 2025, at the end of the nine-day competition.
Prince Harry, 39, is heavily involved with the Invictus Games and co-founded the event in 2014 while he was working with the Royal Foundation which he then shared with Prince William and Princess Kate, both 42.
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Harry and Meghan at the ‘One Year to Go’ anniversary event (Image: Getty)
In February 2024, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle visited Vancouver, Canada for the “One Year to Go” event ahead of the Winter Invictus Games and the couple met competitors at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort.
Around 550 competitors from up to 25 nations will take part in events including sitting volleyball, swimming and wheelchair basketball in the 2025 games.
Winter sports such as alpine skiing, snowboarding and wheelchair curling will also be part of the competition for the first time.
The first edition of the games was held in London in 2014, with subsequent competitions being held in the US, Canada, and Australia.
Last year in a Netflix documentary series about the Invictus Games, Prince Harry described his emotional “unravelling” after he returned from military service in Afghanistan in 2013. The five-part documentary series, Heart of Invictus, told the story of the Prince’s sports competition for servicemen and women.
