Fulfilling His Promise: Harry Delivers US Soldier’s Invictus Medal To Hospital That Saved Her Life

Prince Harry delivered on a promise he made to US Sergeant Elizabeth Marks last month at the Invictus Games today, by delivering one of her Games gold medals to the staff of Papworth Hospital.

The hospital saved her life back in 2014 just before the first Invictus Games. On the plane ride over to London, Marks fell seriously ill and was rushed to Papworth upon landing where she was put into an induced coma and given ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) to heal her lungs.

Harry gave the medal to a group of staff – including Chairman Professor John Wallwork, clinical director Dr Alain Vuylsteke and lead ECMO nurse Jo-anne Fowls – that were invited to Kensington Palace for a meeting with the Prince and with the Duchess of Gloucester, who is the hospital’s royal patron.

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