Government launches £26m bid to host the Invictus Games in 2027

Prince Harry is about to return to the UK in May for an Invictus Games service because the Government has launched a £26million bid to host the occasion in Birmingham in 2027.

The Duke of Sussex is about to be again on British soil in May to attend a service at London‘s St Paul’s Cathedral for the tenth anniversary of the Invictus Games, simply weeks after making a 24-hour go to following his father’s most cancers prognosis.

Harry, 39, launched the video games again in March 2014 on the Copper Box area in London and will see them being hosted within the UK once more after the Government launched a £26million bid to host the occasion.

A supply claimed that Harry ‘is comfy coming again for British-based Invictus Games’, based on the Express, indicating that the Duke of Sussex would additionally attend after making a number of appearances eventually yr’s video games in Germany.

The supply added: ‘We perceive that the Games have at all times had the help of the remainder of the Royal Family.’

Rt Hon Johnny Mercer, the minister for veteran’s affairs, has been campaigning to host the Games right here once more and shared the ‘improbable information’ concerning the Government-backed bid immediately.

Mercer, who was flown to Birmingham for remedy after he was injured in Afghanistan, stated he desires ‘this to be the very best nation on the earth, to be a veteran, I need us to develop into international leaders in restoration from battle’. 

He added: ‘There’s no higher establishment on this nation that is carried out that than the Invictus Games. 

‘I wish to work onerous now to place in a very world class bid to convey these video games again to the UK, and have a pageant of restoration round that occasion. 

‘I need us to steer the world relating to veteran’s care and this offers us a very good hook going ahead to guarantee that’s the case.’

He beforehand instructed the Times: ‘It seems like the correct time and the correct place. The largest energy of restoration has at all times been in sport, has at all times been in Invictus and the Duke of Sussex led the best way when he set these Games up ten years in the past.

‘It seems like a pure rounding of the circle to come back again to the UK and we’re going to do every little thing we will to win the bid.’

Where the video games shall be hosted in 2027 shall be introduced by Prince Harry later this yr. The anniversary occasion in May he’s set to attend is just not linked to the UK bid for the video games.

One supporter for the Birmingham bid instructed the Times that ‘this might present a timeline for a means during which the duke and the remainder of the royal household may discover a solution to come collectively in help of a worthwhile trigger.’ 

Veteran and Team UK member on the Invictus Games, Richard Potter, stated concerning the significance of the video games: ‘I believe you possibly can’t underestimate how vital the video games have been for my journey. 

‘And on the threat of getting emotional, I will not say an excessive amount of, however, , I began this journey in a really darkish place, and right here I’m.’

Last month Harry was in Canada for the Vancouver Whistler 2025’s One Year to Go celebrations, which aimed to lift consciousness of the 2025 Invictus Games, which can happen between February 8 and February 16 subsequent yr.

While in Canada, the Duke of Sussex spoke to Good Morning America reporter Will Reeve about King Charles’s shock most cancers prognosis, his life along with his household in California in addition to his ideas on turning into an American citizen.

The Duke of Sussex revealed he was ‘grateful’ to have seen his father Charles III in particular person throughout a quick 24-hour go to within the UK and hopes the prognosis can have a ‘reunifying impact’ on the Royal Family.

Reeve, the son of late Superman actor Christopher Reeve who was paralysed in 1995, stated: ‘I’ve additionally present in my very own life that type of an sickness within the household can have a galvanising or a type of reunifying impact for a household. Is that doable on this case?’

Harry replied: ‘Absolutely. Yeah, I’m certain. Throughout all these households I see it on a day-to-day foundation, once more, the energy of the household unit coming collectively. 

‘I believe any sickness, any illness brings households collectively. I see it time and time once more, and that makes me very completely satisfied.’ 

Asked how he had ‘processed the truth that there’s a lot taking place again with your loved ones and the place you come from’, Harry stated: ‘I’ve my family, as all of us do, proper? My household and my life in California is as it’s.’

But the Duke of Sussex already promised he could be again in Britain quickly as he stated: ‘I’ve bought different journeys deliberate that will take me by the UK or again to the UK. I’ll cease in and see my household as a lot as I can.’ 

During his quick go to within the UK final month following the King’s stunning most cancers prognosis, which was found by docs when the monarch was being handled for an enlarged prostate, however his particular prognosis is unknown.

Harry flew into London on a 10-hour business British Airways flight from Los Angeles to Heathrow on February 6 and arrived on the royal residence at 2.42pm.

He then spent round 45 minutes chatting along with his father – which is considered their first formal assembly in 15 months – earlier than the King and Camilla had been pushed to Buckingham Palace the place a helicopter was ready to take them again to Sandringham in Norfolk.

The Duke is just not believed to have seen his brother William or sister-in-law Kate Middleton, who’s recovering from her stomach surgical procedure and on prolonged go away.