Prince Harry looks happy and relaxed as he launched a schools programme ahead of the 2025 Invictus Games in Canada.

The Duke of Sus𝑠e𝑥, 40, travelled to Vancouver solo to launch the programme and beamed as he spoke to children and gave a speech at the event.

The Invictus Games will be held in Vancouver and Whistler in February. Harry and Meghan attending a one-year-to-go event earlier this year.

But Harry is marking the countdown alone this week, as Meghan stays at home with their two children Prince Archie, five, and Princess Lilibet, three, and yesterday he joined students at Seaforth Armoury.

He launched an online programme at this historic military facility to introduce the Invictus Games into schools.

He said: “Seeing them learn about the Invictus Games has had a profound impact on me because this is where Invictus starts to go even wider outside of the Invictus community, into schools in Canada and hopefully around the world.”

Harry, who served in the British Army for 10 years, launched the Invictus Games in 2014 as an international sports tournament for injured and wounded service personnel and returned veterans.

Addressing the crowd, the Duke also spoke of his emotions in seeing returned service personnel at the Games’ opening ceremony.

“You need to understand what that means to them because that can be a life-altering moment,” he said.

“There’s resilience that has got them there. There’s teamwork that has managed to get them to the starting line, and there’s courage in getting them to that point.

“For most of them, for some of them, it’s very hard to walk into a busy room, and here they are walking into a stadium of tens of thousands of people.”