Prince Harry will be reunited with his wife Meghan at the Invictus Games after going solo for the opening days of the sporting event for disabled and wounded military veterans.
She is due to arrive in Dusseldorf late this evening – and will have a packed day of activities alongside her husband on the third day of the games.
The Duchess of Sussex will be checking into the five star Hyatt Hotel where she will be staying in the Presidential suite.
Harry has been a huge hit with the crowds at the games posing for dozens of selfies as he is mobbed at each event he attends.
Even dignitaries from the 21 countries competing have made sure they are seated next to the Prince.
Meghan Markle (left) is set to fly into Dusseldorf late this evening to join Prince Harry (right) for the third day of the Invictus Games
With Meghan by his side he is likely to be even popular as many people attending the games have been asking when she is likely to attend.
Aides have been keeping her visit under wraps but she is thought to be meeting with some of the schoolchildren who have been invited to attend.
She is also likely to meet the Nigerian team with Harry teasing at the opening ceremony that she would be cheering them on having discovered she is of Nigerian descent.
The Duchess revealed details of her genealogy in a podcast to reveal she was 43% Nigerian.
The Duchess of Sussex is checking into the swanky five star Hyatt Hotel where she will be staying in the Presidential suite
Harry and Meghan proved to be a winning team when they were at the 2022 Invictus Games in The Hague in Holland.
The Duchess was also a supportive figure in Prince Harry’s Heart of Invictus Netflix series, filmed at the 2022 Games – although her appearances in the five episodes were fleeting.
Meghan appears to give a speech about service, as well as on a number of occasions to offer comment and support to Harry.
In her most prominent moment, Meghan is shown speaking at the opening ceremony of the Games to introduce Harry to the stage, in footage which was aired live at the time.
She said: ‘Thank you so much for your service and thank you to all the friends and the family that are here who’ve been supporting you along the way.
‘Because this is service, this is dedication, and this is the Invictus family.
‘Please welcome my incredible husband, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex.’
Harry went on to thank his wife for the introduction, going on: ‘Thank you my love.’
Elsewhere, during the first episode of the series, Meghan can be seen as she joins Harry at the November 2021 Salute to Freedom Gala in New York.
The couple can be seen arriving at the event, as the Duke confides in the Duchess how nervous he is for an upcoming speech.
He tells her: ‘We haven’t done this for a while’, while Meghan responds: ‘I know.’
Harry continues: ‘My heart like digidigadigadiga.’
Later, in the fourth episode, the couple sit down to discuss the Invictus Games in The Hague.
The couple discuss how the day’s events in a ’tense’ and ‘tough’ and they’ll have the chance to meet the Ukrainian team.
Meanwhile there are also shots of the couple backstage at the games as they join a group therapy session, before they arrive for the opening ceremony where Meghan calls the crowd ‘incredible’.
In another episode, the Duke of Sussex is preparing his speech at The Hague, while holding several pieces of scruffy-looking paper – as he jokes this is ‘how not to give a speech’.
As Harry laughs somewhat nervously, Meghan stands beside him in a crisp white suit and smiles – as the couple’s adviser James Holt takes a look over the Duke’s notes.
James jokes to Harry: ‘At least you can read your writing!’
Meanwhile the Duke, looking over the speech, says: ‘How on Earth do I pronounce that?’ as he points to a name in the text.
James and Meghan, who are themselves unsure, jump to Harry’s aid as James says he will check the name – General Onno Eichelsheim.
General Eichelsheim is in the Royal Netherlands Air Force and is the current Chief of Defence of the Netherlands, who is thanked by the Duke of Sussex in his speech for helping to put the Invictus Games 2022 together.
Harry continues to pronounce the name incorrectly as James says he will go and check the correct pronunciation.
Meghan then appears to write the name in her phone and play it back to check the pronunciation of the name.
She continues to repeat the pronunciation aloud to help her husband, and plays the automation again, laughing as she says: ‘One more time.’
In the next scene, Harry delivers his speech and reaches the name he struggles to pronounce, taking a pause and a deep breath before doing so which prompts a laugh from the audience.
He then pronounces the name perfectly as a beaming Meghan proudly watches on.
And the Duchess doesn’t appear in one of the episodes at all – despite the Invictus Games being a significant milestone for the couple in their relationship.
The Invictus Games was where the couple chose to make their first public appearance together almost five years ago.
Meghan made her first appearance at an official engagement attended by Harry on September 24, 2017, when she attended the Invictus Games opening ceremony in Toronto, Canada, although the pair sat about 18 seats apart.
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