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“I wish that we could close this down because there wasn’t a need for it, but as long as there’s a need for it, we will keep it going,” Prince Harry says.
Harry, a former captain in the British Army, launched the international competition as a support for service members and veterans in London in 2014, making last year Invictus’tenth anniversary.
“It is full of positivity,” a friend of the couple says. “Harry is walking around with a big smile on his face, and he can’t go very far without being stopped every few seconds. But that’s what it’s all about.”
“From a personal aspect, I’m just really grateful and proud for everybody who has been involved in the planning and the organization. So many people said to me after the Opening Ceremony, ‘How do you guys keep this going, with the world the way that it is? With the financial piece to this, how do you keep this going?’ I said, ‘With a really, really strong team behind it and people all over the world who know the value of putting something like this on,’ " he tells PEOPLE.
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