Prince Harry has revealed his favourite royal moment in a candid new video.
The Duke of Sussex celebrated the fifth anniversary of the first Invictus Games for wounded warriors, by posting a video to Instagram.
WATCH: Prince Harry opens up about his favourite royal moment
The father-of-one discussed his favourite Invictus Games moment – a U.K. victory over the USA in wheelchair basketball in the 2014 games.
“That night, there was a goal scored every single end, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then Team U.K. came out on top,” said Harry. “That night, the penny dropped that we’d managed to create something really special.”
Harry says he felt elated at seeing the joy and relief on the faces of the competitors and their families and even recalled when he picked up a kid and put her on his shoulders as she watched her dad play.
“She was almost in floods of tears because she couldn’t see the stage, so I stuck her on my shoulders, and she just bopped away,” he said. “That, for me, was amazing because these kids were able to see their parents being themselves again.”
The 34-year-old was in attendance at the anniversary reception at the Guildhall in London to “celebrate the power of the Invictus Spirit to (change) people’s lives and demonstrate the leading role of the Invictus Games Foundation in delivering and inspiring recovery and rehabilitation through international sport and competition,” revealed Buckingham Palace.
Harry also revealed that he felt nervous before he gave his speech for the first Invictus Games in September 2014.
In another video posted on the Sussex Royal Instagram, the royal opened up about how he felt on the first day of the Invictus Games (the London Paralympics event he founded in 2014) and admitted to having “nerves about everything.”
Harry also said he was especially anxious about his speech at the opening ceremony as he felt that he had a short window to get the words out.
“On the night, we had the lecture or podium right in front of all the competitors so I could just see all their faces, and they started chanting,” Prince Harry recalled.
“I was so nervous. I was shaking.”
The Duke – who is married to Meghan Markle and is a father to infant Archie – claimed it was “one of the worst speeches” he had ever given.
WATCH: Prince Harry reveals the reason for one of his worst speeches
Related stories
Native ad body.
Native ad body.
Native ad body.
