Infictuz player James Phelps knows what is like in the fighting – and after serving him in Afghanistan with Prince HarryHe can say with the confidence of the Duke of Sussex also.

“He really understands,” he told James, 44, exclusively US weekly While attending 2025 Invictus games At the Vancouver Conference Center on Saturday, February 15. “Like, he has experienced situations like most of us here, so the true nature he puts in this field for people who have had similar things.”

James, who competed in the Pitlon skeleton, said the wheelchair and basketball chair in a wheelchair, we The Duke of Sussex was “there at Apache swarm” when he visited one of our “sites” while they were published in Afghanistan in 2012.

“We were working with search and rescue helicopters,” he said. “So he came and toured our swarm and things – taking pictures and things. [He was just] Regular and real man. This was in 2012 – we were attacked by the Bastion camp. It was in September 2012.

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Prince Harry served in the British army from 2005 to 2015. During that time, it was deployed in Afghanistan twice – he flying Apache helicopters from 2012 to 2013 – making him the first member of the royal family to serve in the active military service 30 years ago.

James’s wife and a goat, Cenatia, says that she has a tremendous respect from Prince Harry because of his military service and time in the country.

“We have a great appreciation for him,” Sinatia said we. “I know James, because there was a marine infantry who was killed at work [during] This attack. Two years after this attack, Invictus games were established. This does not fall on the side of the road. “

Prince Harry founded Invictus games in 2014-a competition for infected wounds, wounded, or patients with men and women inspired by his time that lasted a decade in the armed forces.

“He is the front man in this,” says Sennia about Harry. “And every time he and Megan [Markle] I met-I mean, they are manually, cheek to cheek- [they’re] He tells us how much they mean. There is a huge team behind them as well. “

She added: “Every time we have any contact with them, it is very real. They make it feel that you are alone in a room. With every contact.”

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Nearly a decade after they met for the first time while serving in Afghanistan, James and Harry were included in San Diego in 2023.

“He went down and chose, like eight of us for lunch with them,” James said we. “So I was one of the eight who got lunch with him. When we sat with us stories about how we met before – my plan signed and gave me the currency of Prince Harry. There were no cameras. There was nothing, no propaganda. He was only he and a handful of men .

He added, “It is amazing. Call me” The Blue Beard. “

James – who started his hair and blue beard in 2023 as “the beginning of conversations” – says that invictus games are not similar to any other sporting competition on this planet.

“There is nothing like this in the world,” he said, adding that his favorite sport is the rugby game, although “the skeleton may be the most adrenaline.”

“This was very inspiring,” added about the games. “People here are only positively charged – you can, like, smell it in the air. Yes, [an] A very amazing environment. There are a lot of amazing stories here – people only push diversity and just flourish. “

Reporting Justin Ravez