NotSpaghetti
Cossy I just put your post into Gemini and asked "is this true?"
Here's the response:
It was not a solo effort, he was the frontman and catalyst. Executing an international multi-sport event in less than ten months required a massive, high-powered team:
1. Sir Keith Mills
If Prince Harry was the spark, Sir Keith Mills was the operational engine. He is the brilliant sports administrator who served as the Deputy Chairman of the London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He brought the heavy-duty logistical blueprint needed to pull off a massive sporting event on tight deadlines.
2. The Royal Foundation
At the time, the project was backed and delivered by The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. Prince William and Catherine were co-patrons of the foundation, meaning the joint charity’s infrastructure, staff, and initial funding (£500,000 from its Endeavour Fund) were heavily utilized to get the games off the ground.
3. The Ministry of Defence (MoD)
The UK Ministry of Defence partnered directly with the foundation to coordinate with wounded personnel, manage military logistics, and help select and support the British competitors.
4. Public and Private Backing
Government Funding: Chancellor George Osborne pledged an additional £500,000 of public funds (taken from fines imposed on banks involved in the Libor scandal).
Corporate Sponsorship: Major companies, most notably Jaguar Land Rover, stepped in to provide the necessary commercial backing.
So, while Prince Harry is legally and historically the Founding Patron—meaning the idea came from him—he had an army of Olympic organizers, government officials, corporate sponsors, and his family's foundation working around the clock to actually build it.
Exactly. Anybody who thinks that he came up with this all by himself is deluded. He’d left the army. He was cavorting naked in Las Vegas (as seen in The Sun), he was drinking and drug taking. He’d been throwing women into a swimming pool at the home of the Duke of Worcester and only stopped when his butler intervened. It is said he was conveniently off base when other soldiers were taking compulsory random drug tests. His art teacher did his A level coursework for him.
And yet, people somehow believe he had the intelligence and personal qualities to start the Invictus Games. It’s all a myth, dreamed up by the palace to change people’s perceptions of him. I wonder how they feel about that now.
Meghan, while awful, is not solely responsible for how he has turned out in recent years. He was always like it but cleverly covered up by the hated men in grey suits as he calls them.
