{"id":120621,"date":"2024-07-13T15:08:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T22:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=120621"},"modified":"2024-07-13T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T22:08:20","slug":"prince-harry-accepts-the-tillman-prize-with-powerful-speech-despite-mary-tillmans-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/prince-harry-accepts-the-tillman-prize-with-powerful-speech-despite-mary-tillmans-objections\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry accepts the Tillman Prize with powerful speech despite Mary Tillman&#8217;s objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, July 11th, <strong>Prince Harry<\/strong> officially accepted the <strong>Tillman Award<\/strong> at the ESPYs ceremony with a powerful speech over the objections of <strong>Mary Tillman<\/strong>, the mother of the late soldier who inspired the award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>There are recipients that are far more fitting<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, said Mrs. Tillman, who was radically opposed to the Duke of Sussex receiving the award, saying, &#8220;<em><strong>These individuals do not have the money, resources, connections or privilege that Prince Harry has. I feel that those types of individuals should be recognized<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that objection, Prince Harry appeared at the ceremony as the recipient of the award and shared a speech claiming, &#8220;<em><strong>The truth is, I stand here not as Prince Harry, Pat Tillman award recipient, but rather a voice on behalf of the Invictus Games Foundation and the thousands of veterans and service personnel from over 20 nations who have made the Invictus Games a reality<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RGIII\/status\/1811577811645399125\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prince Harry\u2019s acceptance speech for the Patt Tillman Award for Service is worth 5 min of your time. There is no doubt that he is worthy of this award and no doubt that what he is doing is changing lives for the better. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bqUsM6lYZE\">pic.twitter.com\/bqUsM6lYZE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RGIII\/status\/1811577811645399125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Duke added, &#8220;<em><strong>This award belongs to them. Not to me<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, and in reference to Mrs. Tillman&#8217;s opposition, he said, &#8220;<em><strong>The bond between a mother and son is eternal and transcends even the greatest losses<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, accepting that he understands her reasons and that he himself has been in that position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, July 11th, Prince Harry officially accepted the Tillman Award at the ESPYs ceremony with a powerful speech over the objections of Mary Tillman, the mother of the late soldier who inspired the award. &#8220;There are recipients that are far more fitting&#8220;, said Mrs. Tillman, who was radically opposed to the Duke of Sussex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":120649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1795],"tags":[1627],"class_list":{"0":"post-120621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-royal-family","9":"tag-prince-harry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}