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Prince Harry recounts the moment he lost a part of his purpose when leaving the UK
Prince Harry just turned up with TIME for a candid video appearance where he talked about the Invictus Games, and even a bit of his own personal woes.
The entire thing has been shared to YouTube Shorts and shows the royal getting candid about his own past, his army days, the losses he faced, the woes he lived through etc. etc.
The video started with him getting candid right off the bat and saying, “for me, sport instilled essential core values from a very young age, but it didn’t shape my identity as a young man. The British Army did. When I hung up my uniform, I felt like I’d lost not just my profession, but a part of my purpose, too. During both combat tours of Afghanistan, I witnessed firsthand the human cost of conflict. Once from the ground and once from the air.”
“But what I didn’t fully anticipate was the sheer number of life-changing visible and invisible wounds that would impact my brothers and sisters in arms, as well as their families.”
The conversation also touched on his inspiration behind the Invictus Games, and what made the entire thing come to fruition.
In the words of the Duke of Sussex, “it wasn’t until 2013 in Colorado Springs when I visited the Warrior Games and watched American wounded service members compete that I realized something remarkable — I didn’t just see recovery. I saw possibility. I saw individuals develop an unshakable resolve that what happened to them will not be the end of their story.”
He also said, “many of those competing had never considered themselves athletes before. Many had never tried their chosen sport before, let alone using it for recovery. And yet in the arena, sport wasn’t simply rebuilding strength. It was restoring confidence, purpose, identity, and connection.”
“That’s when I realized something profound. That sport isn’t just entertainment and competition. Sport is medicine. It reaches places that surgery cannot, therapies sometimes struggle to, and words often never will. It challenges the body, focuses the mind, and gives people permission to believe that once what once seemed impossible may still be within reach. And in doing so, it helps whole families heal, too. It’s a reminder to all of us that the comeback is better than the setback.”