The Games will go on, Harry vows

PRINCE HARRY has assured those working on his beloved Invictus Games that he ‘will move heaven and earth’ to bring back the event this year.

The 2020 Games for injured service personnel and veterans had to be cancelled due to Covid, but are due to take place in the Netherlands in May. Although Harry is busy with a string of lucrative broadcasting projects, I can reveal he’s remained in ‘constant touch’ with the Invictus team.

A source tells me: ‘Harry remains totally committed to Invictus and is moving heaven and earth to try and ensure the event will be able to take place in May.

‘They believe it can be safely held with careful planning.’

Harry and the Duchess of Sussex are both expected to attend the opening of the event, which is due to take place shortly before Prince Philip’s 100th birthday.

She used her Christmas Message to assure those ‘mourning the loss of those dear to them’ of her ‘thoughts and prayers’. But the Queen is herself not immune to such tribulations. She has just suffered the loss of a beloved cousin, Lady Mary Colman. Lady Mary, who was 88, was the elder daughter of Michael Bowes-Lyon — one of the Queen Mother’s six brothers — and her Majesty’s last surviving maternal cousin. Much of their childhoods were spent together. Mary recalled how her uncle, later George Vi, referred to her cousins, Lilibet and Margaret, as respectively his ‘pride’ and ‘joy’. The bond lasted a lifetime, with Lady Mary and her husband, Sir Timothy Colman, scion of the Colman’s mustard family from Norfolk, being favoured and frequent guests at Sandringham.