Meghan and Harry placed on united entrance as they greet Invictus athletes

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle regarded thrilled to be spending Valentine’s Day in Canada – the nation the place they fell in love – as they hit the slopes to advertise the following Invictus Games immediately adopted by a movie crew.

The couple are within the picturesque ski resort of Whistler, in British Columbia, Canada, for a two-day journey from California to spotlight subsequent 12 months’s occasion, the primary time it is going to contain winter sports activities.

Harry and Meghan have been smiling and hand-in-hand as they arrived on the ski station, watched by what seemed to be their very own movie crew. The former Suits star additionally seemed to be filming on her telephone as Harry tried a ski chair for disabled athletes and spoke to instructors.

They didn’t seem in any respect affected by the row over their Sussex.com web site row – and criticism over their use of the royal hyperlinks regardless of their rift with the Windsors – as they made their first public look as a pair since King Charles’s most cancers analysis. 

Meghan was all smiles and glamour in skinny white denims and a sweater topped with a beige quilted coat whereas Harry was dressed down in denims and a black Eddie Bauer anorak as he arrived for a coaching session with athletes planning to participate within the 2025 Games. 

The pair have been noticed bending down to speak to athletes competing on the video games, whereas Harry tried out one of many opponents’ sit-skis, all whereas being adopted shut behind by a digicam crew.   

Harry and Meghan made their approach out of the gondola on Whistler’s Blackcomb Mountain shortly after 2.30pm native time and have been launched to 3 teams of adaptive skiers: one Alpine sit-ski, one standing ski and one group of visually impaired athletes.

Their journey to Canada comes because the couple are embroiled in a sequence of controversies – one over their new Sussex.com web site and one other over Harry’s flying go to to London final week to see King Charles following his most cancers analysis.

Alex Cairns, a sit-skier from Canada, was the primary to fulfill the Sussexes and gave an illustration of the game – arriving on the base of the slope to cheers from Harry.

The Whistler video games would be the first time that Invictus has featured winter sports activities.

The couple arrived in Canada on Tuesday and have been pictured by DailyMail.com touching down in Vancouver simply after midday Pacific time following a two-hour flight from Santa Barbara – the closest airport to their house in Montecito.

Their arrival got here on the identical day that Meghan introduced she had signed a brand new podcast cope with Lemonada Media after she and Harry parted methods with Spotify.

A convoy of automobiles collected the well-known duo and whisked them away to Whistler the place they’re resulting from be on Wednesday and Thursday earlier than they return to Vancouver for an occasion within the City of Glass on Friday.

The pair are then anticipated to journey house to California on Friday afternoon to be reunited with their youngsters Archie, 5, and Lilibet, two.

The Duke and Dutchess are at the moment embroiled in an ongoing rowover their rebranded ‘royal’ web site Sussex.com – full with Meghan’s coat of arms – which critics declare is a breach of their promise to the late Queen once they acrimoniously give up front-line royal duties.

Sources now saying the couple didn’t seek the advice of palace officers about utilizing their Sussex titles. 

On Wednesday Meghan, 42, was pressured to put out a press release defending the graphic design firm that created the couple’s new web site.
Harry has additionally confronted criticism over the brief period of time he spent within the UK following his father’s most cancers analysis. 

Harry’s sprint to Britain started with an in a single day British Airways flight from LAX that touched down in London simply after 2pm on February 6.

Once there, he was taken to Clarence House for a gathering along with his cancer-stricken father that lasted simply half-hour and did not embody his stepmother Queen Camilla.

The 39-year-old then spent the night time in a lodge earlier than catching a Delta flight again to LA – lower than 24 hours after arriving.

It was claimed final week that Prince Harry ‘would have gladly accepted’ a reunion along with his brother, William, however opted as a substitute to remain in his lodge. 

It’s believed William, 41, is remaining centered on tending to his spouse, Kate, who’s recovering from her stomach surgical procedure and is taking prolonged depart from public duties till after Easter

Harry popped up subsequent in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday the place he was a presenter on the NFL Honors Awards – a televised gala held at Sin City’s huge Resorts World lodge.

Presenting the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award to the Pittsburgh Steeler’s Cameron Heyward, he cracked a joke about rugby – telling the group: ‘I actually love the way you stole rugby from us and made it your personal.

‘Instead of passing it backwards, simply go it forwards. Why not put on pads and helmets? Of course.

‘Have an offense and a protection – that is smart. Why not take a breather each 15 seconds? And you already know what? Instead of a 10-month season, let’s make it 18 weeks. Genius.’

Despite his chipper demeanor onstage, Harry was later pictured wanting glum within the lodge’s underground car parking zone and did not stick round to see the Kansas City Chief’s beat the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night time.

On Monday got here the couple’s relaunched web site with Harry’s 358-word biography emphasizing his environmental credentials – regardless of his penchant for utilizing non-public jets.

Meghan’s longer bio performed up her credentials as a philanthropist however made just one point out of her performing previous and not one of the Royal household.

Critics stated the web site is an try and monetize the couple’s royal connections resulting in a brand new spherical of requires the duo to have their titles eliminated, together with from Meghan’s biographer Tom Bower.

Their ‘About’ web page reads: ‘The Office of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex is shaping the long run by means of enterprise and philanthropy.

‘This consists of: The Archewell Foundation, Archewell Productions, patronages, ventures, and organizations which obtain the help of the couple, individually and/or collectively.’

The new-look Sussex.com additionally made a lot of Harry’s Invictus Games initiative which returns subsequent 12 months with a snow sports activities version in Whistler.

During the journey, the couple will meet opponents from the US, Canada, France, Ukraine and Nigeria, amongst others, at a coaching camp within the resort.

Critics stated the web site is an try and monetize the couple’s royal connections resulting in a brand new spherical of requires the duo to have their titles eliminated, together with from Meghan’s biographer Tom Bower.

One stated: ‘They are going to have actual hassle with the usage of Sussex. It is a royal title and if there may be any trace of commercialism about this it is going to be shut down. It’s simply staggering they can’t see how gauche it’s.’

Meanwhile, The Daily Mirror reported that the couple didn’t seek the advice of palace officers earlier than launching the brand new web site.

The Sun newspaper additionally stated that Harry confronted claims that the crest used was old-fashioned, after he grew to become son of the monarch final 12 months.

Mail columnists Sarah Vine and Andrew Pierce imagine the couple needs to be stripped of their titles to cease them shamelessly profiting off the Royal household.

Without the Royal household, Ms Vine stated, Harry would merely be a ‘barely thick, balding ex-soldier’ whereas Meghan can be a ‘reasonably engaging, not very profitable ex-actress’.