The freestyle ski champion shared the photo on Instagram on Thursday, April 2
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- Prince Harry can be seen smiling on a ski lift alongside Olympic gold medalist Eileen Gu and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a selfie shared on Instagram
- Meghan Markle also recently shared a video of her and Harry’s son, Prince Archie, learning how to ski alongside his father
- As a child, the Duke of Sussex frequently went on skiing trips to Austria with his late mother, Princess Diana
Prince Harry hit the slopes with some new ski buddies: Eileen Gu and Justin Trudeau.
On Thursday, April 2, Olympic gold medalist Gu, 22, shared a photo of herself on a ski lift with the Duke of Sussex, 41, and the former Canadian Prime Minister, 54.
“This week!!” she wrote alongside the photo of the trio smiling in their ski gear.
Additional photos included in Gu's Instagram carousel offered a further glimpse into the athlete’s travels, the food she’s been eating and the quality time she’s spent with friends — including Trudeau’s girlfriend, Katy Perry.
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Prince Harry’s cameo in the freestyle skier’s latest photo dump came just hours after his wife, Meghan Markle, shared a video of their son, Prince Archie, learning to ski alongside his father.
"My boys," the Duchess of Sussex, 44, captioned the clip of Harry and Archie, 6, gliding down the slopes together without poles. "Quick learner, Archie! So proud ❤️."
Skiing has been a lifelong hobby for Prince Harry since he and his late mother, Princess Diana, would go on frequent vacations to Lech, Austria, for skiing and solitude.
“For several years, I’d talked in all seriousness about working at the ski resort in Lech am Arlberg, where Mummy used to take us,” Harry wrote of his dreams to return to the village in his 2023 memoir, Spare. “Such wonderful memories.”
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While he never ended up pursuing that dream after graduating from Eton due to his father King Charles’ disapproval, Hannes Schneider — the owner of Hotel Arlberg, where Diana stayed with Harry and his older brother, Prince William, for many years — recalled the late princess having “such a presence” whenever she would visit with her sons.
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“She was absolutely natural, authentic. A very caring person,” Schneider told PEOPLE last month. “She really tried to take care of everybody — and at the center of that were her boys. They were the center of her universe. That was the nucleus of everything during these holidays.”
“All the other issues and whatever you were reading about didn’t influence the holiday experience of them as a family,” he added. “She was the caring, loving mother that we all loved.”
Schneider said he made it his duty to protect the royal family — whom he had gotten to know well over the years — and their privacy as they enjoyed their time away from the spotlight.
“We always tried to create a home away from home,” he explained. “Something that was very normal for us was a huge privilege for them — to be treated as normal people.”
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