New video from Montecito Villa
Here Prince Harry pays tribute to a US soldier
Elizabeth Marks and Prince Harry at the 2016 Invictus Games.
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Prince Harry returns with a video message. In it he pays tribute to the soldier Elizabeth Marks, whom he describes as a “friend”.
Despite being stripped of his title, Harry wears his military medals
Harry is in the clip according to “The Sun” in the backyard of his luxury home in his adopted home of the USA, he is wearing a black suit and a red tie. He has four military medals from the British Army attached to his jacket – although his military titles were also revoked when he stepped down as a royal in 2020.
In the video, he describes Elizabeth Marks as a “beacon of inspiration.” The 33 year old is according to an official statement from the Sussexes Joined the US Army in 2008 at age 17. She suffered bilateral hip injuries during a deployment to Iraq, but continues to work as a combat medic and Paralympic swimmer.
He met Elizabeth Marks at the Invictus Games
Harry met Marks himself at the Invictus Games in Orlando in 2016, where he presented her with “not one but four gold medals that she had won in swimming,” said the son of King Charles III. (75).
The Sussexes’ website further quotes Harry as saying: “Ellie courageously overcame every obstacle that came her way.” She turned her pain “into a goal and showed with compassion and willpower that the impossible is actually possible.”
The next Invictus Games will take place in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada in 2025. For the first time there will be the winter sports of alpine skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, cross-country skiing, skeleton and wheelchair curling. Harry is patron of the Invictus Games, which he himself launched in 2014.