Prince Harry has hinted that expanding his family further with Meghan Markle may not be on the cards.
The father of two, speaking at the Invictus Games, shared how wonderful parenthood is, but added: “I think one or two kids is probably enough… I definitely think that.”
He humorously remarked on larger families by saying: “I know some people who’ve got five. I just say, ‘Well, that’s your own fault!’. Having kids is amazing, but it is… it’s a journey every single day, every single week, they just grow, and they change.”
Prince Harry, 40, also expressed his fondness for the challenging yet rewarding aspects of fatherhood, commenting: “I love the questions that they ask and the experiences and the challenges that they give you. It’s great.”
These personal reflections were part of a 30-minute CTV News special titled ‘ Prince Harry and the Canadian Heroes,’ which aired late Thursday night and aimed to spotlight this year’s Invictus Games in Vancouver and Whistler, reports the Mirror.
Speaking about his connection to the Games and the military community, Harry, a veteran himself with ten years of service including two tours of Afghanistan, stated: “Being around this community is my fix.”
He elaborated on the sense of solidarity within the community, saying: “When you’re around these people, you hear other people’s stories, and you can make that connection with your own experience. There’s just a lot of weight that gets taken off your shoulders because a lot of these individuals feel or have felt very lonely.
“I think over the course of our service, we’re led to believe that the problems that you have encountered or the issues that you are carrying are somehow unique to you within that service, and when you come to the Games, you suddenly realise that actually, that’s not the case at all.
“I get so much out of hearing their stories, and that may sound weird, but I get my own sort of cure and confidence from them, knowing that what we’re doing is working.
“And being able to serve, I guess, is part of my service, and being able to use the position, the platform, and the spotlight gives these guys all the attention and the opportunity.”
Speaking about the Games, which kicked off last Saturday with a star-studded opening ceremony before an audience of 40,000, Harry shared: “One of the things I care most about is the atmosphere because maybe it doesn’t mean that much to them, but for me to be able to create the atmosphere for them makes them feel like superstars.
“The harder thing to do is to merge the general public with the military. And for them to feel like: ‘I don’t have any connections to military families, but I went to this sporting display and it was incredible! ‘. And we never knew how good this sport.”
The seventh Invictus Games, founded by Harry in 2014, marks the second time the country has hosted the event after the 2017 Games in Toronto.
This comes five years after the high-profile departure of Harry and Meghan from the UK to Vancouver Island with son Archie, now five.
Meghan, 43, had previously lived in Toronto for five years while filming the popular TV series Suits. Reflecting on their time in Canada, Harry commented: “Canada’s been really good to my wife over all these years and its been really good to us as well.”
He added, “Certainly, in 2020, it was amazing for us to be able to be in Canada – Vancouver Island – with Archie and be able to go for hikes and be in amongst the local town and feel protected by that.”
Harry also noted the privacy they enjoyed, saying, “We lived there for more than six weeks before anybody found out. We were bumping into people the whole time – nobody told anybody, yes they told other people, but there’s not too much of a media, kind of pap culture on Vancouver Island.”
Snippets of Harry’s interview with CTV’s main anchor Omar Sachedina were released prior to the full broadcast last night, including discussions about how Harry talks to Archie about his late mother, Princess Diana, and shows him significant footage of her humanitarian work, such as walking through minefields.
Harry further discussed his efforts to keep Diana’s memory alive for his son by sharing stories of her life and her contributions to raising global awareness about landmines in Angola.
Harry shared a touching moment with his son, revealing: “Archie was asking about landmines so I talked about how some of these guys were blown up. I found myself talking to him about mines when he was five years old. Interestingly it gave me a chance to talk about my mum, his grandma, which I didn’t even really consider. He wanted to see videos and photographs of his grandma Diana out doing her thing with land mines all those years ago.”
Princess Diana, who passed away at the age of 36 in a car crash in Paris in August 1997, had a significant impact on the global campaign against landmines after she was famously photographed walking through a minefield in Huambo, Angola, on January 15, 1997.
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Harry continued, reflecting on the challenges of discussing complex issues with children: “It’s hard because kids don’t always ask the right questions, so you either shout it down right away, which I will never do, or you engage in the conversation and try to explain things.”