Prince Harry is reflecting on the essential work his late mom, Princess Diana partook in.
The Duke of Sussex, 40, shared how a dialog concerning the Invictus Video games together with his son, Prince Archie, 5, went in a “different” path and morphed right into a chat concerning the tyke’s late grandmother, who died at age 36 in 1997.
Throughout the 2025 Invictus Video games, Prince Harry spoke with CTV about how he defined the adaptive sporting competitors for sick, wounded and injured service personnel and veterans to Archie and Princess Lilibet, 3.
“You either shut it down straight away, which I would never do, or you engage in the conversation and you try to explain things,” Prince Harry, who’s married to Meghan Markle, 43, mentioned. “Archie was asking about landmines, so I was talking about how some of these guys [Invictus Games participants] were blown up.”
He continued, “I think IEDs are probably a bit too much at this point, but I found myself talking to him about mines when he was 5 years old.”
However the dialogue shortly became how Princess Diana famously walked via a landmine subject in Angola that was being cleared by the Halo Belief to boost consciousness of the difficulty in 1997.
“Interestingly, it gave me a chance to talk about my mum, his grandma, which I didn’t even really consider,” Harry recalled. “That became the outcome of the story for him. He wanted to see videos and photographs of his Grandma Diana out doing her thing for landmines all those years ago.”
“It produced a very interesting conversation between me and him, different to what I thought it would be.”
Prince Harry continues to comply with in his mom’s footsteps by making the same stroll to assist clear harmful landmines around the globe.
In September 2019, the Duke of Sussex wore protecting gear and a visor, like his mom, as he visited a Halo Belief mine website in Angola.
He additionally visited the realm the place his mom walked, which is now a thriving group. A tree named the Diana Tree marks the spot the place she was photographed through the 1997 journey.
“It has been emotional retracing my mother’s steps along this street 22 years on and to see the transformation that has taken place, from an unsafe and desolate place into a vibrant community of local businesses and colleges,” he mentioned on the time.
Prince Harry has continued to maintain Princess Diana’s reminiscence alive via his kids.
Within the 2021 Apple TV+ docuseries “The Me You Can’t See,” the royal member mentioned, “I got a photo of her in [Archie’s] nursery, and it was one of the first words that he said — apart from ‘mama,’ ‘papa,’ it was then ‘grandma.’ Grandma Diana. It’s the sweetest thing, but at the same time, it makes me really sad because she should be here.”
The Invictus Video games is happening in Vancouver and Whistler from Feb. 8 till Feb. 16.
“I showed Archie a video of wheelchair basketball and rugby from the Invictus Games in Sydney, and he absolutely loved it,” Harry instructed Individuals about their dialog.
“I showed him how some were missing legs and explained that some had invisible injuries, too,” he added. “Not because he asked but because I wanted to tell him. Kids understand so much, and to see it through his eyes was amazing because it’s so unfiltered and honest.”
