{"id":119252,"date":"2017-09-24T21:11:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=119252"},"modified":"2017-09-24T21:26:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:26:27","slug":"prince-harry-greets-canadian-winners-of-the-duke-of-edinburghs-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/24\/prince-harry-greets-canadian-winners-of-the-duke-of-edinburghs-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry greets Canadian winners of the Duke of Edinburgh&#8217;s Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014The energy Prince Harry generated at the Invictus Games&#8217; opening ceremony concert on Saturday night spilled over to Sunday, when the prince met with dozens of high-achieving Canadian youth at the presentation of The Duke of Edinburgh&#8217;s International Gold Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The mood on Sunday was more subdued and formal than at Saturday night&#8217;s concert, but the excitement was palpable as Prince Harry greeted award winners at the Fairmount Royal York hotel in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Edinburgh&#8217;s Awards honour 14-to-24-year-olds who take on projects related to personal development and community involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry walked around the room and greeted the award recipients warmly, asking them questions about their achievements.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdukeofedcanada%2Fvideos%2F10155271692496636%2F&amp;show_text=1&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"562\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a speech before the ceremony began, Ontario Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell thanked Prince Harry for founding the Invictus Games, a multi-sport event for injured and sick soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Harry founded the Games in 2014 to motivate wounded soldiers through their recovery. Participants took part in track events on Sunday, with some athletes running and others in wheelchairs.<\/p>\n<p>Dowdeswell also praised Harry&#8217;s grandfather, Prince Philip, for founding the Duke of Edinburgh&#8217;s Award in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry and the lieutenant-governor were also joined onstage by Lou Gizzarelli, Canada&#8217;s National President of the Awards.<\/p>\n<p>More than 500,000 young Canadians are currently taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh Award program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014The energy Prince Harry generated at the Invictus Games&#8217; opening ceremony concert on Saturday night spilled over to Sunday, when &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":119253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}