Prince Harry keeps promise to 102-year-old veteran with Toronto skydive

Prince Harry rang his wife Meghan Markle the moment he landed from a charity skydive outside Toronto.

A CTV interviewer watching on the ground noted the call, made after Harry touched down safely from a jump held in honour of 102-year-old Second World War veteran Ed Marshall, according to Hello Magazine.

The jump raised funds for Sunnybrook Hospital and the True Patriot Love Foundation, a Canadian charity that supports the country’s military community. Harry undertook it to fulfil a promise made after he first met Marshall the previous year.

That first meeting came in November 2025 at the veterans centre at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. Marshall is a former paratrooper who trained during the Second World War.

He knows his way around a parachute. On 12 July 2024 he completed a charity tandem skydive — strapped to an instructor — from 13,000 feet, an outing that made him the oldest person to complete a tandem skydive in Canadian history, according to Sunnybrook Hospital.

The plan this time had been for Marshall and Harry to jump together. Marshall was ruled out after a medical evaluation, but still joined the flight. His grandson Bailey made the jump with Harry instead.

Harry said he had not needed to talk the Duchess of Sussex into letting him jump. She was relieved once he was down.

He told the interviewer the long climb to jump height had tested her nerves on the ground. She kept asking, “Are they down yet?”

What makes this stand out is the personal thread. Harry had announced the skydive plan only eight days after a move back to the UK, in what was billed as one of his first engagements since returning. For fans, this means the Canada trip was less a one-off thrill than a kept word to a veteran he had met the year before.

During the same UK return, Harry also gave a rare update on his children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, after their school move in Britain, according to People.