We heard, weeks ago, that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would head back to Canada in February, and now we’re getting official confirmation of that. They’ll be heading up to Vancouver on February 14th for a three-day visit. The purpose of the trip is to highlight next year’s Invictus Games in Vancouver and Whistler, which will be IG’s first “winter games.” They’re adding new sports/competitions too. Harry always does these “one year to go” appearances to hype the games and check in on the progress for the structure on the ground. The Sussexes were just in Vancouver last November, where they had meetings and went to a Canucks game (Harry dropped the puck).
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are heading to Canada for an exciting countdown. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will head north from Feb. 14 to Feb. 16 for the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025’s One Year to Go celebrations. Over their three-day visit, the couple will join members of the participating nations’ Winter Training Camp, which provides an opportunity for members of the International Invictus Community, including team managers, coaches and competitors, to experience winter adaptive sports ahead of the Games next year.
Prince Harry, a former captain in the British Army, founded the international adaptive sports tournament for wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans in 2014.
Following cycles in London (2014), Orlando (2016), Toronto (2017) and Sydney (2018), the Hague (when COVID-19 pushed the event back to 2022) and Düsseldorf (2023), the competition in Canada in 2025 will be the first time the Invictus Games have returned to a previous host country.
The Invictus Games in Vancouver-Whistler will also be the first to incorporate winter adaptive sports in addition to some of the core sports from previous Invictus Games.
It’s so cool that they’re doing a three-day trip. I hope it’s full of real events and photocalls and such. When they were in Germany in 2022 (just days before QEII’s death) for the One Year To Go event, they were barely there for 24 hours. It’s probably very convenient for them to spend more time in Vancouver though! Hopefully, Meghan will stop by some charities and see some of her old Canadian friends. Anyway, you know that this “tour” will cause a series of lunatic reactions across the pond. I’m looking forward to it! Those salty people showed their whole asses when the Sussexes went to a premiere in Jamaica. Get ready for “Harry & Meghan are so insensitive for making the Windsors look bad” X 1000.
Misan Harriman also posted some new photos from the Dusseldorf games:
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- Vancouver, CANADA – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend the Vancouver Canucks hockey game in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Harry did the ceremonial puck drop and then the pair watched the contest from the owners box. Pictured: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 21 NOVEMBER 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Vancouver, CANADA – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend the Vancouver Canucks hockey game in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Harry did the ceremonial puck drop and then the pair watched the contest from the owners box. Pictured: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 21 NOVEMBER 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Vancouver, CANADA – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend the Vancouver Canucks hockey game in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Harry did the ceremonial puck drop and then the pair watched the contest from the owners box. Pictured: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 21 NOVEMBER 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex during day 4 of Invictus Games 2023 at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Dusseldorf. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan Markle Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 13 Sep 2023 Credit: Dutch Press Photo/Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE NETHERLANDS OR FRANCE**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the IG25 and Team Canada Reception at the Hilton Hotel during the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 15 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the IG25 and Team Canada Reception at the Hilton Hotel during the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany. Featuring: Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 15 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the IG25 and Team Canada Reception at the Hilton Hotel during the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 15 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the IG25 and Team Canada Reception at the Hilton Hotel during the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany. Featuring: Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 15 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the IG25 and Team Canada Reception at the Hilton Hotel during the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 15 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex during day 6 of Invictus Games 2023 at the Merkur Spiel-Arena Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 15 Sep 2023 Credit: Dutch Press Photo/Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE NETHERLANDS OR FRANCE**
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- Closing ceremony of the Invictus Games. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 16 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Closing ceremony of the Invictus Games. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 16 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Looking forward to seeing this couple. Also hope Meghan is able to visit a woman’s group while there
Seriously!!??
Harry should address what is going on in…Africa!? Omg.
I think soon. The charity has also addressed what has taken place, and they have been addressing it for a while. As soon as it was brought to their attention. We are now hearing about it from the daily fail but, they have been working behind the scenes.
It’s okay William, you don’t have to be so feisty 🤣🤣🤣
recollectionsmayvary, I believe the statement that was just put out by African Parks stated that they were made aware of the issues about a year ago and have been working with the police in an investigation.
The Met Police and the brf could learn from African Parks what you should do when aware of something like this. The DOJ wants to talk to PA.
When will Andrew answer for his friendship with Epstein?
When will the Middletons answer for party pieces?
When will Charles answer for the Cash for bag?
When will Sophia really apologize on camera for the loss her entourage caused to the Lady family
The royals have more to answer to
Calling it now, Kate’s gonna be dragged out of bed/recovery/wherever she is to step on their news coverage. And if she doesn’t, well, we will have confirmation that something quite bad is going on with her health.
The funny thing is, that’s still wouldn’t be a “win” for the royals. It would only turn the spotlight on WTH’s been going on this past 2 months. And people won’t stop paying attention to the Sussexes. It will be added focus to royal news, not pulled focus. The idiots at KP don’t seem to understand that. There’s no way to “one up” the Sussexes in any triumphal way. More attention (which the Wales would get for, say a separation announcement) does not mean better attention. It just means that more people will start making the connections between the Waleses shannanigans and why the Sussexes turned their backs on that whole toxic royal mess.
Whatever’s going on behind the scenes I don’t think Kate is camera ready yet. Even if we believe KP’s story (we don’t), she’s not returning until she looks/feels good. Her return will get global coverage (for like 3 secs) and the pics will need to be good. But William….if William isn’t seen during these 3 days then I think that speaks volumes. Remember IG 2023 when William suddenly appeared after like almost 3 months off on the day of the Well Child Awards. Then we had the rugby podcast with Mike and Anne the next day, Kate went to France for the rugby game on the Saturday (I think) and William was running around doing stuff. All of the rota were gloating that they had overshadowed IG. Ok now tin foil hat will be taken off my head and I’m taking my kids to school.
Nah, I think William will appear somewhere. KP did say that he would return to royal duties after Kate is settled.
You guys make a good point, it is quite soon, more than I realized. However, I don’t think Will has the star power to distract like showing Kate off does – her headlines are much stronger. Perhaps they’ll do a carefully controlled photo of her “working from home!”
It is not ‘star power’, it is curiosity.
The royals have gotten so much coverage because people are pitting them against the Sussexes.
They barely got more than the perfunctory coverage before Meghan joined Harry.
I’m hoping to see some lovely pictures of them with the participating members and see what the new sports look like. Hope they have a great time.
So we get a St Valentine’s Day with the Sussex’s 💞✨💐. I am looking forward to it. Already making my plans to attend the games. As for that family of leftovers, the timing ⏱️ of all this must have them in meltdown mode even though this event was known to be coming up this month.
The BM is such a mess. They cry and throw up if the Sussexes do something when other royals have an engagement bc how dare they steal the spotlight. But then they cry and throw up when the other royals literally say they won’t be seen for months bc…. Bc something. 😂 However, even if they moved into a cave and became hermits never to be seen in public again they’d still cry and throw up.
Ugh I kinda hate that they have to pre-announce this but I get it. Cue a gaggle of Brits booking flights to Vancouver.
I won’t be surprised if somebody from the royal rota shows up for this. They better stay home.
The rota/British press show up for everything Harry and Meghan do. They even attended the aviation awards even though they kept saying how stupid and tacky it was, at the same time saying Harry didn’t deserve it. For all of their pronouncements that Harry and Meghan are nobodies and irrelevant, the BP cover them more than all of Royals combined.
They really do, don’t they! H&M breath. BM hot on the trail. Kate Middleton, serious surgery, procedure,, whatevs..she’ll maybe make progress by June. But, let’s not talk about THAT. Our paid experts told us so…….
Now, you know most of the British Media is excited and already packed because The Sussexes notified the world about this event. Harry and Meghan should limit the BM’s access to events while inviting more respectful media outlets.
Lol I hope they take the kids and stay for a week or 2 in Canada. Meghan’s BF lives there and it was her home for almost 10yrs. Naturally I don’t want the kid’s photographed but I hope she can show them her old stomping grounds and her & H can reminisce about their courtship lol after all they’ll be there for Valentine’s Day.
I’m also curious what they’ll do for the 3 days. To mark the countdown to Germany they signed the book but that’s all I remember. I wonder if its 3 days because they are in incorporating the local indigenous tribes and giving them their own platform to mark the 1 year out date. IG has really made a lot of effort to be inclusive and respectful so it wouldn’t surprise me.
Either way I’m seated and excited!
I think Dusseldorf was one day because they had other events scheduled in the UK.
B, Meghan lived in Toronto, which is close to New York. Vancouver is north of Seattle, WA. They did live a few months in British Columbia so they could visit some charities there.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did pop up at some Vancouver charities, that’s their MO wherever they go. They lived just north of Victoria on Vancouver Island when they were hiding out in BC so didn’t get involved in local community stuff at all, they were too traumatized and evading the paps until someone whose name begins with W and ends with M sold them out to the tabloids at which point they ran for it to Tyler Perry’s place.
Jaded, I didn’t know where they were located on Vancouver Island. I didn’t realize they were so close to Victoria. I agree with you that it wouldn’t be surprising if charities around Vancouver got a visit or two.
The BM will invade Canada to try to make a mess of things. I wonder if Charles will say something, being commander in chief of UK’s armed forces. I doubt it.
Looking forward to see them and also knowing how glorious the fake outrage will be from Salt Island.
I hope we will get loads of beautiful new pictures of H&M. I don’t think Meghan is capable of taking a bad picture, at least I’ve never seen one. I guess when you live a life filled with love and meaningful commitments, the happy and peace just shines through. It will drive the BM crazy!
I can’t wait! This is going to be a great visit. I think part of the reason its longer than Dusseldorf is because they are going to spend more time at the actual training grounds, and probably want to highlight some of the new winter sports coming to IG.
Yeah, and it’s an operating winter vacation spot, it’s not like they could hang out in an empty sports facility for three days in Germany. There is a whole lot more to showcase in Vancouver.
I can’t wait either!
I hope no one dies from the Windsors! I have PTSD after what happened in September 2022.
Brutal irony on> But if it helps to steal the limelight from Harry and Meghan, maybe someone will take one for the team? <Brutal irony off
With these BRF people nothing (bad) is impossible, so I can believe that premise. You know how they make a habit of saving some bits of news to disclose whenever the Sussexes are doing something? Well, I can just see them coming out something like this: “You know how we’ve been telling you that Kate was hospitalized with some serious super-secret condition which was not so bad, but it would still take a half a year to recover from? Well, about that…”
Glad you wrote down what I’ve always thought lol! No wonder Edward is in hiding.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllll… LOL
LMAO! I can’t help it, karma seems to be extra specific when dealing with the Windsors, so I am not ruling anything out.
I’m excited to see her in winter fashion
Right? I can’t wait to see her coat and boots.
It’s the worst snow season on record here — Whistler is a mess. Hopefully it’s just the El Nino effect this year and it will be much better for them next year, but it’s a washout.
People with season ski lift tickets are SOL this year!
Its been the weirdest winter. I’m in Toronto and its basically spring weather. We don’t get winter as bad as the rest of the country but this is wild.
I live in Saskatchewan and it’s been downright tropical here this winter except for one week of -45. Global warming is truly showing off this year
One week of -15C in BC, today it’s going to hit 9C. For someone who struggles greatly with winter, this one has been amazing. Sadly the lack of snow is going to make next summer’s wildfire season even more horrible than last year.
I live in Vancouver and agree, Ashley. We had a major dump of snow in January, but other than that, it has been extremely mild here. I was out yesterday in short sleeves with no coat, which is decidedly unusual for a Canadian winter. The local mountains have no snow to speak of; let’s hope it improves for the IG next year. Can’t wait to see Harry and Meghan!
I loved Invictus in Düsseldorf. It was the first time I had watched the games so uplifting. Harry and Meghan were so open with the crowds . The competitors and all the children were brilliant . It so inspired me I made a donation on their site. At least the Canadians are more well mannered than the British press. I am sure that the Canadians will be more welcoming to Harry and Meghan than the British. I hope the Canadian press will give them fair headlines. The British press will have their daggers sharpened for some vile headlines.
Royals who work, actually.
He directed the concerns to the people in charge, they hired an external law firms and immediately began investigations. What more do you expect from him? Please find something better to do as a royalist than stalk these people?
The stunning beauty of Meghan in that amazing black dress just knocks me out. That woman absolutely WEARS her clothes! And Harry ain’t bad either!
Now the invictus announcement has been made. The Daily Mail crap has started. Prince Philip was like the Duchess of Windsor. The Queen thought Meghan’s wedding dress was too white. What idiots do they get to write these things.No wonder they are a laughing stock scraping the barrel a bit.
These are old stories that Seward is dredging back up for her book. For example, it was reported around the time of their wedding that the Queen allegedly made statements about Meghan’s dress being too white and how she thought it was inappropriate that it divorcee wear a veil. It was also reported around the time of the wedding that someone in the royal family was calling Megan DoW. What we did not know was that it was Prince Philip. Interestingly, what Seward confirms is that the leaker was Anson, the party planning cousin of the Queen that bitched about the Sussexes’ wedding plans for the reception – sour grapes because she was not asked to plan it! Anson would not have spoken without the say so of the Queen. This to me confirms the accuracy of Seward’s reports (Anson and the Queen were very close) and that the Queen played her own part in ensuring negative leaks from BP about the Sussexes, especially Meghan.
This will be like a palate cleanser after the Wailses’ drama and more than a week of Cruella appearances.
Agreed. I am prepared to be uplifted, because that is what Harry and Meghan always do.
The Duchess is certainly looking more and more beautiful with every outing. I guess happiness and love are the ultimate beautifiers (and blessings).