{"id":2232635,"date":"2026-01-13T06:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2232635"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:47:26","slug":"prince-williams-reaction-to-king-charles-potentially-opening-invictus-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-williams-reaction-to-king-charles-potentially-opening-invictus-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William&#8217;s Reaction to King Charles Potentially Opening Invictus Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<ul data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li data-node-id=\"0.0\">Prince Harry wants King Charles to open the Invictus Games this summer.<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"0.1\">Charles is allegedly considering the offer\u2014despite the games conflicting with Queen Camilla&#8217;s birthday celebration.<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"0.2\">Prince William is said to be upset about all of the above!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Prince Harry is returning to the United Kingdom this summer for the Invictus Games, and apparently he&#8217;s trying to get King Charles to open the ceremony\u2014which would be a moment of very public reconciliation after years of feuding.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Per a source in <em data-node-id=\"3.1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/fxoPn\/https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/royals\/37867520\/prince-harry-king-charles-invictus-games-uk-feud-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/fxoPn\/https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/royals\/37867520\/prince-harry-king-charles-invictus-games-uk-feud-end\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"The Sun\" data-node-id=\"3.1.0\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\">The Sun<\/a><\/em>, &#8220;Prince Harry desperately wants Charles at Invictus\u2014and he wants him to open the games alongside him. Harry wants it to happen both for the games, and for their relationship. It\u2019s his dream to have his father by his side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">The source adds that &#8220;People helping to plan the games are convinced it will happen and are planning for Charles to play a role in the opening ceremony.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"recirculation\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-14\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-15\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">One possible hurdle? The games conflict with Queen Camilla&#8217;s 80th birthday. But the insider says &#8220;Planning committees are aware of Camilla\u2019s birthday and hope Charles will be able to do the opening and attend events while still honouring commitments to his wife. And Harry is across every detail of what is going on with Invictus.&#8221;<br data-node-id=\"7.1\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Meanwhile, the <em data-node-id=\"8.1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/is-prince-harry-calling-king-charles-bluff-with-invictus-games-olive-branch\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/is-prince-harry-calling-king-charles-bluff-with-invictus-games-olive-branch\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Daily Beast\" data-node-id=\"8.1.0\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\">Daily Beast<\/a><\/em> reports that &#8220;friends and allies of King Charles and Prince William have been caught off guard by&#8221; this news, and confirm Charles is considering opening the games &#8220;much to the chagrin of William.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">The outlet also reports that <em data-node-id=\"9.1\">The Sun&#8217;s<\/em> story &#8220;has caused some on the King\u2019s side to bristle at what they see as an attempt to force Charles into attending the Games&#8221; and that &#8220;Friends of William want the King\u2019s team to rebut the invitation before it takes legs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Welp. This has been an update!<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-16\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-xmoip0 e94w1mj9\">\n<h6 class=\"css-as8qcb e94w1mj7\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-before\" class=\"css-0 eagam8p0\"\/><span class=\"css-8lle59 e94w1mj5\">Related Story<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-after\" class=\"css-0 eagam8p1\"\/><\/h6>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cosmopolitan.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry wants King Charles to open the Invictus Games this summer. Charles is allegedly considering the offer\u2014despite the games conflicting with Queen Camilla&#8217;s birthday celebration. Prince William is said to be upset about all of the above! Prince Harry is returning to the United Kingdom this summer for the Invictus Games, and apparently he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2232636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[274717,431931,285977,285684,431930],"class_list":["post-2232635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-14d3bf38-2ad7-436a-ace5-bb45e52a49ed","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-king-charles-is-considering-opening-invictus-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Prince-Williams-Reaction-to-King-Charles-Potentially-Opening-Invictus-Games.pjpeg.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232637,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232635\/revisions\/2232637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2232636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}