Prince Harry Surprises Team UK Ahead Of Invictus Games, Reconnects With Former Instructor [Watch]

Prince Harry pleasantly surprised Team U.K. ahead of the Invictus Game.

Prince Harry has been very busy preparing for the Invictus Games, but he took the time to surprise Team U.K. ahead of the competition by speaking with them via Zoom. The Duke of Sussex video-called the team from his California home.

The team was inside a room when Prince Harry suddenly showed up on the screen. Everyone was seemingly surprised but was pleased to see him because they clapped their hands and cheered.

"Hello everyone, am I disturbing something? It looks like you guys were busy before I got on," Prince Harry asked them.

The team just laughed in response. Prince Harry talked to the team captain, Rachel Williamson, and asked how it was leading the "rowdy bunch." He joked that Williamson seemed to be doing well before adding, "by the fact that they're all sitting down," making the crowd burst into laughter. Meghan Markle's husband asked the team captain how she was feeling ahead of the Invictus Games in the Netherlands, which is happening in less than two weeks.

"Yeah, excited and nervous," Williamson said. "I think it's been a very long journey to get here, but what an amazing team to do it with. We've come through ups and downs with the pandemic, and I know as soon as we will get there it'll be just amazing to just look back at the team and just see how far we've actually come. It's going to be really special."

During the call, Prince Harry also reconnected with Vic Wales, his physical training corps instructor while he was a cadet at Royal Military College Sandhurst.

"Is my PTI from Sandhurst in here somewhere?" Prince Harry asked, and the athletes pointed at her. "There she is. I can't believe after, how many years — 15 years? — our paths are about to cross again."

"You used to shout at me so much," he added, making the team laugh again.

"Needed it," one of the athletes responded to Prince Harry.

"I needed it? Yeah, cool — well, that's also fair enough," the royal prince replied.

Prince Harry cheered on the team before ending the call by reminding them that they were already winners.

"For a lot of you, you've already, as far as I'm concerned, you've already won gold by just getting to this point," Prince Harry told them. "The fact that you are sitting there now wearing that strip and you are able to wear the Union Jack on your arm again, that means so much to every single one of you."

The Invictus Games will be in The Hague, Netherlands. It will begin on April 16 and end on April 22.