Back in May, Prince Harry was in London for three days. He built his schedule around the tenth anniversary service for the Invictus Games, which was held at St. Paul’s Cathedral and attended by several members of the Spencer family. He also attended a panel discussion about Invictus, and he got some face time with NATO high command (NATO is a huge supporter of the Invictus Games). Harry also did a special event for Scotty’s Little Soldiers, a private charity for which Harry still serves as patron. SLS focuses on the families of fallen soldiers and creates community for what we Americans call “gold star families.” Harry spent several hours at the SLS event, playing with kids and talking to widows and widowers. The BBC covered it and the British media was FURIOUS that Harry “upstaged” King Charles and Prince William.
Well, while Harry was at the SLS event in May, he also recorded a special video with a military widow named Nikki Scott. Scott co-founded the charity and she and Harry have probably known each other for more than a decade. This was a lovely and emotional one-on-one conversation about losing her husband and telling her kids that their father had died, and how her grief led her to start SLS. Harry told her: “What you’ve done is incredible, it is truly inspirational. I know that word gets thrown around a lot, but it is. And to see the difference in some of the kids here, Especially some of the kids I met previously in 2017, they’re different people. You can see that they’re still processing their grief, but this community of support is everything. It’s amazing.”
Harry also speaks about losing his mother and how difficult it was to process her death, and how he believed for years that grief meant that he had to be sad all the time to prove that he missed her. That’s something he spoke about at length as he was promoting Spare as well.
I glanced through the Telegraph’s coverage of this video – which was released ahead of the UK’s Armed Forces Day – and the newspaper notes that Harry spoke “with a hint of an American accent, saying ‘where do you wanna start?’ and pronouncing Scotty ‘Scoddy’.” Oh my god, you guys, a hint of an American accent??
Photos courtesy of Scotty’s Little Soldiers’ IG.
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