Prince Harry Shares Emotional Second with Canadian College students About Dealing with ‘Struggles’

Prince Harry shared significant connections with college students in Canada as he helped them be taught extra concerning the Invictus Video games.

Throughout a go to to Seaforth Armoury in Vancouver on Nov. 18, Prince Harry, 40, spoke with college students concerning the 1875 poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley — the poem that impressed the title of the Invictus Video games, which Harry based in 2014 as a multi-sport occasion for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and servicewomen, each these nonetheless serving and veterans. 

“What number of of you will have felt struggles your self and needed to cope with it your self with out the assistance of household and buddies?” he stated.

He added, “It’s necessary to know that when issues get so onerous, there’s at all times a approach again.”

Elsewhere within the dialog, Prince Harry requested the scholars, “Who’s on social media?” to which everybody raised their hand. 

“Who feels social media is a double-edged sword?” he continued. As fingers went up, Harry added, “That’s how all people feels. Everyone feels the identical factor.”

Prince Harry gave an emotional speech concerning the risks of kids consuming on-line content material throughout a speech on the Clinton International Initiative Annual Assembly in New York Metropolis on Sept. 24, the place he shared that “Younger individuals right now possess an unimaginable understanding of know-how that older generations might wrestle to know.”

He added, “Our legal guidelines and rules are totally different, state to state, nation to nation. We might have totally different backgrounds, viewpoints, beliefs and even entry to the web itself, however the one factor that we are able to universally agree on is the protection of our kids.”

“We’ve come a great distance to have the ability to speak about this,” Harry stated in Vancouver on Nov. 18. “Ten years in the past, even 5 years in the past, it was thought-about a weak point to speak about this stuff.”

Talking of being extra alike than not, Harry advised the scholars, “When everybody begins sharing their story, you understand we’re not that totally different.”

Invictus’ two-word motto, “I Am,” is derived from the final two strains of the “Invictus” poem, which reads, “I’m the grasp of my destiny; I’m the captain of my soul.” The poem, Harry advised PEOPLE in 2022, “is a reminder that you’ve the facility to take management of your life.”

College students have been inspired to share their “I Am” statements on the occasion on the historic army facility, which launched the Faculty Program forward of the Invictus Video games Vancouver Whistler 2025. The Duke of Sussex’s go to formally marked the launch of a web-based program geared toward introducing the Video games to colleges in all places.

“My aim has been getting these rivals to share their experiences,” Harry stated on Nov. 18. He added, “They’re courageous sufficient to have the permission to share their story, which isn’t a tragic story — it’s a really inspiring story.”

Throughout his remarks to the gang assembled at Seaforth Armoury, Harry stated that “in the end why we’re all right here right now” is to “additional our collective journey of therapeutic collectively.”

In that vein, after his speech, Staff Canada competitor Franceca Colussi hugged Harry and stated, “You saved my life.”

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The Invictus Video games’ subsequent iteration will happen in Vancouver and Whistler from Feb. 8 to 16, 2025, marking its first foray into winter sports activities like alpine snowboarding, snowboarding, biathlon, Nordic snowboarding, skeleton and wheelchair curling.