
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attends The WellChild Awards 2023 at The Hurlingham Membership on September 7, 2023 in London, England. Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Pictures
Prince Harry made the journey from California to London to attend the 2023 WellChild Awards.
The Duke of Sussex, 38, gave the impression to be in good spirits on the Thursday, September 7, ceremony, smiling for photographs on the step and repeat. He wore a navy go well with with a crisp white button-down that he paired with a lightweight blue patterned tie.
Harry introduced in August that he can be current for the occasion. “For almost 20 years, WellChild has been remodeling the lives of kids and younger folks throughout the U.Ok., offering vital care that prioritizes the bodily, psychological and emotional well-being of those people and their households,” he stated in a press release on the time. “The braveness and power embodied by these younger folks — and the tireless devotion of those that help them — by no means stop to encourage me. I’m honored to attend this yr’s awards ceremony and rejoice their unbelievable work.”

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. Tristan Fewings/Getty Pictures
Along with presenting the Award for Inspirational Little one (aged 4 to six) and giving a speech, Harry spent “time with every winner and their households at a pre-ceremony reception, listening to their tales and serving to create lifelong recollections.”
Later this week, Harry and spouse Meghan Markle will journey to Düsseldorf, Germany, for the 2023 Invictus Video games. “The Duke shall be in attendance all through the whole thing of the video games and shall be joined by The Duchess shortly after the video games start,” a spokesperson for the couple stated in an August assertion.
As for the WellChild Awards, the ceremony holds a particular place in Harry’s coronary heart as he has been a patron of the group — which helps severely in poor health kids — for 15 years and attended the occasion 11 occasions. Meghan, 42, beforehand went to the 2018 and 2019 ceremonies alongside her husband. Final yr, the pair had been already within the U.Ok. for the occasion on September 8, however they selected to skip it after Queen Elizabeth II died that day.
Harry opened up in 2019 in regards to the influence the awards had on him whereas he and Meghan had been anticipating their son, Archie, now 4. (They’re additionally mother and father of daughter Lilibet, 2.)
“Final yr, when my spouse and I attended, we knew we had been anticipating our first little one — nobody else did on the time, however we did — and I keep in mind squeezing Meghan’s hand so tight through the awards, each of us considering what it will be wish to be mother and father sooner or later,” he stated on the ceremony. “And extra so, what it will be love to do all the things we may to guard and assist our little one ought to they be born with rapid challenges or change into unwell over time.”
Harry additionally famous how his perspective on the ceremony modified after turning into a father, including: “And now, as mother and father, being right here and chatting with all of you pulls at my heartstrings in a approach I may have by no means understood till I had a baby of my very own.”