Prince Harry will return to the United Kingdom in May to celebrate a milestone anniversary of the Invictus Games, the biennial sporting competition he founded a decade ago. <\/p>\n
The Duke of Sussex will give a reading at a ceremony at London\u2019s St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral on May 8, to mark 10 years of the Invictus Games and its foundation, it announced on Sunday. <\/p>\n
The last time the prince was back in his home country was in February, on a swift visit after his father King Charles\u2019 cancer diagnosis was announced <\/p>\n
Harry spoke of that diagnosis later than month, telling ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d that he \u201cjumped on a plane and went to go see him as soon as I could.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI love my family. The fact that I was able to get on a plane and go see and spend any time with him, I\u2019m grateful for that,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear if the prince will meet with his relatives during the trip next month. <\/p>\n
The duke and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex relocated to the United States in 2020. In the years since, Harry, 39, has made several fleeting trips back to the UK, most notably attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 and his father\u2019s coronation last year. <\/p>\n
It is also not yet clear whether Meghan would accompany her husband to the Invictus celebration. But it could be challenging for the mom-of-two as the event at St. Paul\u2019s falls two days after Prince Archie\u2019s fifth birthday on May 6. <\/p>\n
Buckingham Palace announced Charles, who is still undergoing treatment, is set to return to public-facing duties on Tuesday. His medical team were said to have been \u201csufficiently pleased\u201d with his progress and \u201cremain positive\u201d at his recovery. <\/p>\n
\ufeffHis diary will be managed carefully with decisions about which events he\u2019ll take on made closer to the time in consultation with his doctors. The King will not carry out a full summer program, the palace said, but he will welcome Japan\u2019s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako for a state visit in June. <\/p>\n
The Invictus Games were established by Prince Harry after his deployment in Afghanistan. They aim to support recovery for wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans, according to the foundation\u2019s website. <\/p>\n
The next Invictus Games will be held in Vancouver and Whistler in Canada in February 2025. More than 500 competitors from over 20 nations will compete in adaptive sports such as indoor rowing, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball. <\/p>\n
Winter sports will also be played for the first time at the Vancouver Whistler games, including Alpine skiing and snowboarding, Nordic skiing and biathlon, skeleton and wheelchair curling. <\/p>\n
The games will be held in partnership with the First Nations \u201cin the spirit of truth and reconciliation with Indigenous communities,\u201d Harry said on the games\u2019 website. <\/p>\n
In a press release, the Nigerian Defense Headquarters expressed \u201chonor and delight\u201d over the duke and duchess\u2019s trip. <\/p>\n
\u201cDuring their stay in the country, they will be meeting with service members and will be hosted to arrays of cultural activities,\u201d the press release said. <\/p>\n
The possibility of Nigeria hosting the Invictus Games in the future will also be discussed, according to the press release. <\/p>\n
On her podcast Archetypes<\/em>, Markle has previously said that she is \u201c43 percent Nigerian.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prince Harry will return to the United Kingdom in May to celebrate a milestone anniversary of the Invictus Games, the biennial sporting competition he founded a decade ago. The Duke of Sussex will give a reading at a ceremony at London\u2019s St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral on May 8, to mark 10 years of the Invictus Games <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}