Prince Harry has finally reunited with his friend and fellow “spare” Prince Joachim of Denmark in the closing days of the Invictus Games in Canada.

The first ever winter edition of Invictus will formally conclude on Sunday night local time in Vancouver after nine days of sporting action from service men and women hailing from 23 countries.

This year’s games were staged in Vancouver and Whistler and featured winter adaptive sports, including alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, skeleton, and wheelchair curling.

Harry helped set up Invictus in 2014 as an Olympics-style international sporting event for injured and wounded service men and women across the globe.

The games have also served as something of a royal reunion for the Duke of Sussex after he was joined by Prince Joachim of Denmark.

The California-based Duke of Sussex is seldom in contact with friends and relatives from his previous life as a working royal since “stepping back” from duties five years ago.

However on this occasion Harry sat courtside with King Frederik of Denmark’s only brother and his wife Princess Marie to watch the volleyball competition on Saturday in Whistler.

The Duchess of Sussex was not present for the royal reunion and has already returned to the family home in Montecito to be with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.

It is understood the last time Harry saw Joachim was in 2017 during an Invictus event in Copenhagen, while the Duke of Sussex was still a full time royal.

Joachim, 55, and Harry, 40, are fourth cousins once removed as descendants of Queen Victoria.

Joachim and Frederik’s mother Queen Margrethe was also a close friend and confidante to Harry’s late grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.

Famously, Margrethe and Elizabeth addressed each other by their nicknames, Daisy and Lilibet respectively.

“We use our nicknames, we’re definitely affectionate but I don’t want to splash it all over the place,” Margrethe said in 2022.

There were other similarities too, with Margrethe ascending the throne in 1972 exactly 20 years after Elizabeth II, meaning the women had coinciding jubilees each decade.

Like Harry, Joachim is also a former military officer and “spare” to the throne who has steadily fallen down the line of succession.

Joachim and Marie moved to Washington DC in late 2023 so the Prince could take up a new role in the American defence industry about a year after a family feud with Queen Margrethe over royal titles.