The prince and the first lady: that (long) friendship between Harry of England and Jill Biden

When in 2012 Harry of England visited the United States, the photo-scandal of the half-naked prince in Las Vegas went around the world. Spree aside, Harry also found time to fulfill a royal commitment by attending Washington a a reception honoring former American and British veterans wounded in combat. It was there that he met Jill Biden, then “second lady” of the United States.

A meeting that would be repeated in 2013, when the prince went to the United States to attend the Warrior Games, from which he then took inspiration to found, the following year, the Invictus Games. Despite the significant age difference, Jill and Harry would have found “shared dedication to the military” as a common point. The prince has a long military training behind him, he also served in Afghanistan, and repeatedly said how important the army had in his life. Jill has always called herself a “proud mother of a soldier”: son-in-law Beau, who died of a brain tumor in 2015, he was a veteran of the Iraq war.

Since then, the prince and the current first lady of America have had several opportunities to see each other. Jill Biden, for example, went to London for the first Invictus Games in September 2014. And Joe Biden, Obama’s deputy at the time, joked about it: “My wife is spending the weekend with Prince Harry. The papers write that Harry goes hand in hand with a blonde woman, the vice president’s wife. I’m a little worried”.

The new president of the United States met Harry after his wife. And he too has formed “a solid friendship” with Harry.

In 2016 Harry and Joe come photographed next to each other in the stands of the arena of Orlando while attending a game of basket in a wheelchair, organized by the Invictus Games. Twelve months later, in Canada, here they are together again, Harry and the spouses Biden, this time however with a new entry: a Torontoin fact, he joins the trio as well Meghan Markle, at the first public outing with the new boyfriend.

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