Invictus Games 2025: Which Royals Prince Harry support

This year’s Invictus Games are in the starting blocks. The sports tournament for wounded and injured military members was initiated by Prince Harry (40) and this time takes place in Canada from February 8th to 16th, 2025. At the event in Vancouver and Whistler, in which over 500 participants from more than 20 nations are expected, Harry can look forward to royal support on site.

Prince Joachim (55), the brother of the Danish king Frederik X. (56), and his wife Princess Marie (48) will honor the sporting event. On the website of the Danish Royals, the event in the schedule of the two is recorded. Accordingly, they will be in Vancouver on February 15th. It will be the first time that the couple, whose adopted home Washington, is DC, visits the event. According to the newspaper, no members of the British royal family have yet been confirmed as visitors to this year’s Invictus Games.

Various competitions in adaptive sports are held at the Invictus Games in Vancouver and Whistler. In addition to indoor rowing, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair rugby or wheelchair basketball, winter sports such as skiing alpine, snowboard, biathlon, skeleton and wheelchair curling are included. In 2014 Prince Harry launched the Invictus Games, which should offer “a way to recovery for wounded, injured and sick soldiers from all over the world”.

Prince Harry and his event also support music stars. As can be seen from an official message on the international sports event website, Katy Perry (40) appears as a headliner at the opening event in Vancouver. Noah Kahan (28) and Nelly Furtado (46) will also perform. Both the musician Jelly Roll (40) as well as the bands Barenaked Ladies and The War and Treaty should appear at the final show. “The Closing Ceremony forms the spectacular end of nine days full of memories and life-changing sporting events for the participants, their families and friends as well as many thousands of Invictus-Games fans around the world who have witnessed the games live, on television and online” , it says on the page.