Prince Harry visited Toronto Monday, May 2 to launch the IG2017 countdown, with help from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Team Canada athletes and many others.
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Then Harry and his grandmother the Queen responded to the US President and First Lady with their own light-hearted Invictus challenge.
The video comes days after the Queen and Prince Harry released a promotional video for this year’s Invictus Games, showing the pair getting a video message from “Michelle”. One example is with the Invictus Games, which are taking place in America for the first time this year. Harry says it was the flight home from Afghanistan that the created the idea for the Invictus games.
All of those athletes are also disabled, ill, or injured service members or veterans, because that’s what the Invictus Games is all about: encouraging wounded warriors to adopt adaptive sports.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined a friendly trash-talk Monday with his own Invictus Games viral video created to promote the adaptive games.
“Every time I get to meet kids and they have been told a real-life prince is coming, the disappointment on their faces when they see me without a crown or without a cape…you can tell in the United Kingdom and across the world that they are genuinely disappointed, because they live in this fairy-tale land!”
“It was a very easy decision once we handed the Games over to Canada”, the prince said according to CBC. Harry then smirked at the camera before scoffing, “Boom”, and dropping a fakel mic.
For those hoping to spot Prince Harry in Toronto today in advance of next year’s Invictus Games, we’ll be keeping track of the stops where you’re likely to catch a royal glimpse. It shows the USA first lady and the president accepting Harry’s challenge, with a man in uniform behind them saying “Boom!” and pretending to drop the mic.
Prince Harry joined Trudeau and Toronto Mayor John Tory for an exhibition sledge hockey game at Ryerson University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre.
The Invictus Games were started in 2014 by Prince Harry of Wales, the younger brother of Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge.
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Prince Harry, 31, will watch the second games, contested by 500 military personnel and veterans from 15 countries, in Orlando, Florida, from next Sunday.
