Prince Harry’s Playful Comeback When Kid Tries to Give Him Bunny Ears During Photo Op

The Duke of Sussex launched a program dedicated to teaching schoolchildren about his Invictus Games during a visit to Canada on Nov. 18

Ten years after Prince Harry founded the Invictus Games in 2014, the organization is expanding its reach into schools.

On Nov. 18, during a visit to the Seaforth Armoury in Vancouver, Canada, the Duke of Sussex, 40, launched the School Program ahead of the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025. While posing for a photo with a group of children assembled, one attempted to put bunny ears behind Harry’s head, to which Harry cheekily responded, “You can’t do that, or I’ll get in trouble!”

The Games next head to both Canadian cities from Feb. 8 to 16, 2025, marking its first foray into winter sports like alpine skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, Nordic skiing, skeleton and wheelchair curling.

“It’s so exciting to have the first winter Games,” Harry said at Seaforth Armoury. Speaking about skeleton specifically — a sliding sport where a person rides a small bobsled down a frozen track while lying face down and going head first — the Duke of Sussex poignantly said, “They say all you need is courage.”

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At Prince Harry’s visit to the historic military facility, he joined students in a range of activities and officially marked the launch of an online program aimed at introducing the Invictus Games to schools everywhere. The Games are an international multisport event for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and servicewomen, both those still serving and veterans.

While playing sitting volleyball with the kids, Prince Harry met a youngster who was born in 2014, the same year the Games debuted in London. (It has since had iterations in Orlando, Florida; Toronto, Canada; Sydney, Australia; The Hague, Netherlands; and Dusseldorf, Germany.)

“You were born in 2014?” Harry said. “The first Invictus Games was in September 2014!”

Prince Harry later gave remarks, where he told the crowd, “Seeing this program today in action — you can really feel the energy and enthusiasm and the learning happening in this room. A lot of excitement.”

As a child yelled out, an affable Harry remarked, “Ha, I see you!”

Elsewhere in his remarks, he said of the kids he met, “Seeing them learn about the Invictus Games has had a profound impact on me, because this is where Invictus starts to go even wider outside of the Invictus community, into schools in Canada and hopefully around the world.”

“You guys have really impressed us today with your willingness to learn and to understand,” Harry said, before presenting the kids with a surprise — two tickets to the Invictus Games 2025 Opening Ceremony!

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Speaking to PEOPLE in 2022, Prince Harry credited the Invictus Games community as “a major part of my growth and learning.”

“Creating the Games involved listening to military and veteran families — and hearing directly from them about their lives — and that offered so much perspective,” he told PEOPLE. “It’s been a lesson in serving a purpose greater than ourselves, and the benefit that comes from that extends to both the individual and the community. I truly believe that we are at our best when we’re in service to others, and Invictus is all about upholding that value.”