Prince Harry in Vancouver as Invictus Games school program launches online [Video]

One day after surprising fans at the pinnacle of Canadian football in Vancouver, Prince Harry got down to ground level with a game of sitting volleyball with schoolchildren in the city.

The Duke of Sussex, who attended the Grey Cup on Sunday, is in British Columbia to promote the Invictus Games that he founded for wounded, injured and sick veterans and other service personnel about a decade ago, and which will be held in Vancouver and Whistler in February.

He helped Invictus Games organizers launch a lessons program for students from kindergarten to Grade 12 on Monday, making educational resources on the event’s history and purpose available online.

The prince interacted with elementary and high school students at Vancouver’s Seaforth Armoury, playing sitting volleyball, studying the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley for which the games are named, and taking part in a drawing and colouring exercise.

Speaking later to the …