Sergeant Elizabeth Marks requested Harry give the medal to the medical team at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, as he placed it around her neck.
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Prince Harry was joined by two special guests Wednesday at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida, for the Invictus Games wheelchair rugby finals.
So Marks asked Harry to bring a medal home from the games in Orlando to the United Kingdom hospital, Papworth.
Sgt Marks collapsed with a serious lung condition in 2014 on the eve of the first Invictus Games and was put into a medically induced coma.
According to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, she said: “I landed in London and became very ill, very rapidly, I was in hospital in London and went into respiratory distress syndrome”.
The beneficiary of the princely kiss was a woman named Ruth, who offered her hand and spent some quality time with the British royal at the Paralympic-style games for wounded military veterans representing 14 countries.
Sarah Rudder, a retired U.S. Marine who was seriously injured after the 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, won several medals this week in the Invictus Games, an worldwide athletic competition for wounded service members.
The prince even tried on her Team USA jacket, leading many to speculate about a budding romance for the world’s most eligible bachelor.
The combat medic, who suffered a serious hip injury which has left her with no sensation in her left leg, was interviewed during the closing ceremony.
Ko expressed her feelings over the opportunity to be involved in such a powerful event saying, “It is such an honor to meet Prince Harry and to support The Invictus Games”.
“But for those who won’t, receiving a medallion from the Invictus Games Foundation is a fantastic reminder that at the end of the day, we have all undertaken our own journey to recovery and that we are all equals”.
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“The competition has been fierce with performances of the highest worldwide standard across a number of events”, Britain’s Prince Harry said.
