Cape Verde were the smallest-ever nation to qualify for the knockout rounds at the World Cup.
They just took the defending champions to extra time and nearly shocked the world. What a run 🇨🇻
It’s Time to Replace Prince Harry with Zara & Mike Tindall at Invictus.
Prince Harry has become the biggest problem for the Invictus Games.
As Birmingham 2027 enters its one-year countdown, every news story about Invictus somehow ends up being all about him - his security battles, court cases, family rows, interviews, and personal plans. The veterans and their achievements get pushed into the background. It’s completely the wrong way round.
The personal narrative always seems to come first.
On top of that, Harry has become a deeply divisive figure. Invictus should bring people together around the veterans and their recovery, not split them over its patron and his dramas.
Invictus has outgrown one individual. It’s now a global movement that should never be overshadowed by the personal controversies of its founder. The focus needs to stay on the competitors, their recovery journeys, and the sport - not on whatever Harry’s complaining about this week.
That’s why Zara and Mike Tindall would be far better placed. They’ve supported sports and charity events for years without turning them into personal soap operas. Zara brings real Olympic experience. Mike knows what it’s like to compete at the highest level and has long supported the armed forces community. They’re grounded, well-liked, and they understand how to champion a cause without making it all about themselves. That’s exactly what Invictus needs.
Bottom line reasons Harry should step back for Zara and Mike:
• He’s made himself the main story instead of the veterans.
• He’s done remarkably little public promotion of Birmingham 2027 despite the Games returning home.
• He’s become a divisive figure when the cause needs unity.
• The whole thing has outgrown one person’s personal baggage and controversies.
• Zara and Mike know how to support something properly without the constant distractions.
The athletes shouldn’t have to compete with the founder for the headlines. Birmingham 2027 should be remembered for extraordinary veterans - not another chapter in Harry’s personal saga. Invictus has grown beyond one man. It’s time its leadership reflected that.
@WeAreInvictus …. no one’s paying any attention to you anymore with all of this crap going on. Save yourselves, get a new patron and disperse funds to the veterans which is what it’s meant to be for, not your patron
Remember Harry’s BBC tearjerker just last year?
‘I can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK at this point’
We were told the security risks was too great, family cut off, devastated by the court ruling, establishment stitch-up, won’t speak to Dad because of it.
Fast forward: Now we’re getting press briefings weeks in advance about Harry, Meghan, Archie and Lili potentially coming to the UK for the Invictus one-year countdown complete with emotional plans to take the kids to Diana’s grave for the first time. Suddenly the UK is safe enough?
What changed, Harry? Was Britain too dangerous for your family, or was that narrative only useful until it wasn’t? The bank accounts drying up? Ass Ever heading toward a potential bankruptcy filing? No more big-money victim interviews rolling in? No new projects? Commercial deals drying up? Relevance taking a nosedive? When the grift slows and relevance fades, the Royal Family and British soil suddenly become useful again for PR optics and sympathy tours.
Security was never the unbreakable barrier - it was leverage. Now the narrative flips to ‘children meeting their grandpa’ and family healing when the Hollywood dream is crumbling.
Invictus deserves better than being used as the backdrop for another Sussex PR campaign. Britain isn’t a stage for endless victim-to-reconciliation pivots or carefully choreographed photo opportunities. And the Royal Family certainly isn’t your bailout fund.