Prince Harry founded it after he saw the U.S.’s Warrior Games, another adaptive sports competition.
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In late 2014, Prince Harry created the Invictus Games, an worldwide Paralympic-style athletic event for wounded veterans (and we love him for it!).
Harry, fifth-in-line to the throne and a patron of the Invictus Games, responded to the United States president and his wife in kind.
“Careful what you wish for”, adds the president, before one of the servicemen behind them pretends to drop the microphone with a “boom” that might sound a little too much like munitions to some.
Fortunately for the young royal, he’d already enlisted the help of his nan, who was on hand to engage in some serious smack talk!
Officials standing behind the first couple are seen making faces and gesturing a “mic drop” sign mouthing the words “BOOM”.
“Remember when you told us to “bring it” at the Invictus Games?”.
This week, in unexpected fashion, her majesty Queen Elizabeth sat down with Prince Harry to record a video challenge to Barack and Michelle Obama – and the American people – for the upcoming Invictus Games. However, the Queen is unfazed and merely replies: “Oh really?”
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The monarch famously appeared in a film sequence for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics alongside James Bond actor Daniel Craig and some of her corgis.
