a thrilling moment at the fifth invictus
games in the netherlands i was alongside
elijah cheering on his dad joelle as he
rounded out the 400-meter wheelchair
race
this the invictus family is the
continuation of service right so much of
the sport is is is helping and healing
them what they are
again proving to the rest of the world
is that whatever you come up against
whether it's physical or mental trauma
that you can actually get through
u.s army staff sergeant joelle rodriguez
is competing in six events he was
paralyzed after a 2014 car accident
a lot of people would have thought these
are the cards i'm dealt this is what i
get and i have to live with this
and maybe you've taken it kind of slowly
through life you did the total opposite
man you went all the way in you said
cards and that's funny because when my
wife came to see me probably a day after
my surgery she was like are you okay i
said well these are the cards i have so
i have to play them
joelle is among the 500 athletes from 19
countries taking part in the multi-sport
event and the duke of sussex is there to
support them in a pond you throw a stone
block and the ripple effect that it has
to so many people
here in this community i believe happens
on the outside of this park as well so
that's what this is about giving a
platform to the people who i think
i know that they always want to serve
on their way to the games harry and
megan made a quick stop to the uk their
first visit with the queen since
stepping away from their royal duties in
2020. you saw your grandmother how was
that it was great it was really nice to
see her be able to see her in some
element of privacy was was was nice we
have a really special relationship we
talk about things that she can't talk
about with anybody else megan and i had
tea with her so it was really nice to
catch up with her um
and you know home home for me now is is
is you know for the time being it's in
this it's interesting
and it really and it feels that way as
well we've been welcomed with open arms
um and it's got such a great community
up in santa barbara so you feel like
that's home more for you
is that weird to say
no but i'm sure it'll become a thing
can i ask you a very basic
personal question
your family uh at home do you miss them
um yes i think especially over the last
two years for most people have they not
missed their family right the inability
to be able to get home yeah and see them
but do you miss
your brother your dad
look i mean i'm
for me at the moment i'm here yeah focus
on these guys and these families and
giving everything i can 120 to them to
make sure that they have the experience
of a lifetime yeah that's my focus here
and then when i leave here i get back
and my focus is my family who i miss
massively you got a a whole restart
you have a whole new focus a whole new
nucleus how does that land with you
well i think the focus is very much the
same is it yeah certainly from from my
own my wife's point of view yeah we've
now moved that life of service to the
states and we'll continue to do what we
were doing before so in that regard
nothing's changed for us it's just a
little bit more complicated to have to
sort of restart sure
from a blank canvas
whether at home in california or here in
the netherlands prince harry says he is
committed to making the world a better
place what i've learned over the years
is certainly for myself
i find healing in helping others the
realities of what's happening within the
communities around the world is people
have come to help other people i love
that you know i feel like life happens
on a random wednesday it doesn't have
the highs and it doesn't have the lows
it's just wednesday so for you
how was your wednesday like how's life
from i'm telling you it's a wednesday
rather than a monday yeah i still get
when i used to get um sunday night blues
it's like monday morning again here we
go so yeah wednesday
midweek what's it like though revolves
around the kids as much as humanly
possible like this whole working from
home stuff is not all it's cracked up to
be because it's really hard when your
kids and you are in the same place it's
really hard to separate the work from
them because they kind of overlap so i
mean lg spends more time interrupting
our zoom calls
than anybody else
do you tell them or do you tell archie
he's old enough about your mom
yes yeah yeah very much so i don't
tell him all the stuff that happened but
suddenly that this is you know grandma
diana and we've got a couple photos up
in the house in these moments do you
ever feel your mom's presence for me
um
it's constant it has been over the last
two years more so than ever before it's
almost as though she's
done her
done her bit with my with my brother and
now she's very much like helping me got
him set up now she's helping me set up
that's what it feels like you know
um he's got he's got his kids i've got
my kids
you know the circumstances are obviously
different but no she i i feel her
presence in almost everything that i do
now but definitely more so in the last
two years than ever before so she's
watching her sure she's proud of you i'm
sure she is
i love that yeah
yeah that was such a poignant poignant
moment um his wife by the way meghan
markle was as we were speaking he said
that he felt at ease with his kids now
he's missing them a lot but she was on a
flight going back going back home to
take care of them but i just thought it
was really interesting what he
underscored and what he decided to talk
about and what he decided not to talk
about and he wanted to bring it back to
the invictus games i think that was his
purpose i think he might have felt weird
like talking about us all of his
personal stuff in the middle of this
moment right but he did speak about some
of it so you sort of understand why he
was steering the conversation back to
the reason he was there
exactly but it was really interesting
and it's so interesting where he finds
himself at home he said earlier he
thinks of the united states as his home
he said because it was so welcoming i
thought that was interesting we'll have
more of that conversation with prince
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