Prince Harry to Be Honored at 2024 ESPYS: Here’s Why
Prince Harry’s dedication to service and providing a competition for wounded veterans is being celebrated at the 2024 ESPYS.
On Thursday, it was announced that the Duke of Sussex is set to receive one of the three highest honors of the evening, the Pat Tillman Award for service.
According to a release, the Duke of Sussex is being presented with the award “in honor of his tireless work in making a positive impact for the veteran community through the power of sport. Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, will receive the Pat Tillman Award for Service, an award given to a person with a strong connection to sports who has served others in a way that echoes the legacy of the former NFL player and U.S. Army Ranger, Pat Tillman.”
The ESPYS is recognizing the work that Harry has done for the last 10 years with his Invictus Games competition, which has allowed veterans with both visible and invisible injuries from various countries to compete in Olympic-level athletic competitions.
Like Tillman, Harry himself is a veteran, who served in the British Armed Forces as a forward air controller and Apache helicopter pilot. During his time in the military, Harry also did two tours of duty in Afghanistan.
It has not been announced if Harry will attend the ceremony to receive the award in person. In February, Harry shocked the crowd when he made an unexpected stop in Las Vegas to take part in this year’s NFL Honors gala. During the ceremony, Harry presented the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award to Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Cameron Heyward.
Past recipients of the Pat Tillman Award include the Buffalo Bills training staff (who worked to save the life of safety Damar Hamlin after he suffered cardiac arrest), Gretchen Evans and Chris Wood.
The ESPYS will also award Coach Dawn Staley with the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance and Steve Gleason will receive the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage.
The 2024 ESPYS will be hosted by Serena Williams and air live Thursday, July 11 at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC.
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Prince Harry was overcome with emotion while speaking with the founder of a charity that helps bereaved military children.
In a video uploaded Thursday, June 27, Harry, 39, sat down with Nikki Scott, who founded Scotty’s Little Soldiers after her husband, Corporal Lee Scott, was killed while serving in Afghanistan. The video was released ahead of the U.K.’s Armed Forces Day, which honors those actively serving, veterans and their families each year on the last Saturday in June.
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Both Harry and Nikki were on the verge of tears as she recalled the day she was told about her husband’s death in 2009. At the time, Nikki faced the challenge of breaking the news to her son, Kai, who was 5. (The pair’s daughter, Brooke, was 7 months old.)
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Nikki noted it felt “so corny” for one of her first thoughts to be about how many other children were experiencing a similar loss, but Harry insisted, “There’s nothing corny about that.”
Nikki explained that she told her son the news just hours after she found out. “He’s autistic as well, so I knew I had to be really clear and not confuse him, but you also wanna protect your children,” she said, claiming that Kai “knew” something was wrong when he got home from school that day.
Harry, a global ambassador for the organization, praised Nikki for doing “the best that you could” in a difficult situation. “It’s a conversation I will never forget,” she added.
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When it comes to grief, Harry said “the hardest thing” for young kids to do is be open about their feelings. “[They think], ‘I don’t want to talk about it because it will make me sad.’ … If you suppress this for too long, you can’t suppress it forever, it is not sustainable and it will eat away at you inside,” he said.
Scotty’s Little Soldiers helps more than 650 kids in need with the goal of supporting “at least 1,000 children annually” by 2030. Harry first connected with Nikki at a Buckingham Palace event in 2017, and her cause hit close to home given his own experience with losing a parent.
Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Through the years, he’s been candid about the lasting impact of his mom’s death and her public funeral. In a 2023 interview with Anderson Cooper, Harry confessed that it took more than 10 years for him to fully accept her death.
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Harry described his desire to find more “proof” about Diana’s death, a feeling Nikki related to during their conversation. “Back then, it was really important that I knew every single piece of the puzzle … I was like, ‘I need to know everything that happened,'” she explained in the video.
Nikki eventually came to accept that Lee “didn’t die for nothing,” and she’s imparted that same message on her kids. Near the end of their conversation, Harry praised Nikki for “making a difference” in the military community.
“[Your husband] would be super proud of you,” he told Nikki, who replied, “I hope so.”
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