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Prince Harry's close pal and colleague David Wiseman has claimed the royal went "rogue" during a huge Invictus Games speech.
David, who is now the director at the Invictus Games Foundation, explained that Harry was caught winging a speech during the first ever launch event for the Games, back when they started in 2013. He spoke about his and the Duke's inspiration for the Games after visiting the Warrior Games and Harry's plans to "internationalise" the games.
David said: "We were sitting down at breakfast, it wasn’t a meeting or anything like that, and Harry said, 'Look, this is absolutely brilliant, what we’ve seen here is absolutely brilliant. What we need to do is internationalise this.
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Prince Harry went rogue during a speech (PA)"We need to invite allies and nations from all over the world, we’re going to put it in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, it needs to be on the BBC, this is going to be massive, we’ll have a closing concert. He could see it before anyone else could," he added while talking on HELLO!’s A Right Royal Podcast
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"Anyone who sits back and is a bit disparaging… from my personal experience he has been the visionary from the very beginning and has been incredibly involved and incredibly proud of his involvement in it," David continued before revealing Harry's rogue move.
He was inspired by the Warrior Games (Getty)"We didn’t realise the time frame that he made in mind. Bearing in mind that was May 2013, we went back to the Warrior Games that afternoon, and he stood on stage at the podium, and I think it had been written in his speech, that vision to say, ’Look, we’d like to do this,' I think he’d added his own note that said 'next year'.
"He went rogue! We were like, 'What? Next year?' For a long time, there were three or four of us at the Royal Foundation managing this project. "September 2014, we were there, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, it might have been by the skin of our teeth but we were there!"