James Phelps
Shawn spayberryInvictus Athlete James Phelps knows what it is like fighting – and after serving Afghanistan with Prince HarryHe confidently tell the Duke of Sussex, too.
“He actually understands,” James, 44, exclusively remarked Week of the US While attending the 2025 Invictic Games At the Vancouver Convention Center on Saturday, February 15. “Like, he’s been through situations like most of us here have, so just the genuine nature of him putting this together for people who have been through similar things.”
James, competing with Skeleton Biathlon, Wheelchair Rugby and Wheelchair Basketball, told us The Duke of Sussex is “above Apache Squadron” when he visited one of the “our sites” while they two sent to Afghanistan in 2012.
“We work in search of helicopters and rescue,” he explained. “So he came and went around our squad and things – took pictures and things. (She was new) a regular, real man. It was a great attack In the Bastion of Camp. September 2012. “
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James was deployed several times – he was about a search and rescue squad credited to storing 500 lives – and asked treatment and hospital for PTSD. “I helped before it was late,” he said before.
Prince Harry, Duke in Sussex
Karwai Tang / WireImagePrince Harry served in Britain’s military from 2005 to 2015. At that time, he was taken to Afghanistan twice – making him first member of the royal military service in the active military service in 30 years.
The wife and caregiver of the caretaker of James, Cynthia, saying that he had many respect for Prince Harry because of his military service.
“We have a high regard for him,” said Cynthia us. “I know that James did, because there were two marines killed in the action (of) attack. It was, like, two years after the attacks were constructed in invictict. That not falling along the road. “
Prince Harry built Invictus games in 2014 – a competition for the injured, injured or sick service of men and women who were inspired by his decade of armed forces.
“He is the front man in it,” Cynthia says Harry. “And every time he and Meghan (Markle) Gathered together – I mean, they hands-in-hand, cheek-to-cheek – (they) tell us what they mean. There’s a big team on their back. “
He added, “Every time we have contact with them, it’s true. They make it like it just and they’re just in a room. In every contact.”
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Almost a decade after they first met while serving in Afghanistan, James and Harry met at San Diego by 2023.
“He went down and chose, us. “So I’m one of the eighties with him. We sat down we took stories about how we met before – he signed my line Badge. No Cameres . Nothing, no publicity. He’s only he and a bunch of men. “
James Phelps
Michel SauretHe added, “He was amazing. He called me blue beard. ‘”
James – who began to die of her hair and beard blue in 2023 as a “Statters Starter” – says Invictus Games Unlike other vehicles competition on the planet.
“There’s nothing like this in the world,” he said, adding that his favorite sport is rugby, even if “the skeletal might be the most adrenalaline.”
“It’s very nice,” he added to games. “People right here are positively charged – you can, like, like it, smell it in the air. Yes, (one) wonderful surroundings. People just push for difference and progresses. “
Justin Ravitz reported
