After discreetly visiting Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles on Thursday, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle appeared in public in The Hague on Friday, on the eve of the launch of the 5th edition of the Invictus Games.
The couple, who had announced with a bang their withdrawal from the British royal family in January 2020, presented themselves “together” at a reception in the Dutch capital, “where they were photographed and filmed by around fifty media”precise The Independent.
Meghan and Harry’s trip to Europe comes as the California-based royal couple were heavily criticized for their absence from the ceremony held last month in memory of Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband, who died in 2021 .
The Invictus Games, an international sporting competition created by Harry for injured and disabled soldiers and veterans, has always held a special place on the couple’s agenda.
It was indeed during the 2017 games, in Toronto, “that Harry and Meghan had chosen to appear together publicly for the first time”remember The Independent. On September 24, 2017, Meghan had attended the opening ceremony of the games, separated from Prince Harry by “18 seats”. But the next day “the couple had appeared hand in hand in public, for the first time, during the wheelchair tennis competition”says the British title.
The presence of the princely couple in The Hague is undoubtedly also motivated by contractual obligations: for the duration of the games, Meghan and Harry will indeed be followed by a television crew, for the filming of their Netflix series. Heart of Invictus.