Meghan Markle, Prince Harry snubbed over King Charles' birthday parade Trooping the Colour for second time

For the second year in a row, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry haven’t been invited to the Trooping the Colour later this month. 

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be absent from the military procession this year as they were in 2023 following King Charles III's coronation, People magazine confirmed. 

Trooping the Colour is an annual parade that has marked the sitting monarch’s official birthday celebration for more than 260 years. 

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were last part of the parade in 2019, a year after their wedding, and last attended it in 2022, when they flew back to London for Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee celebration. 

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The queen died three months later, and while Prince Harry attended his father’s coronation in May of last year (without the duchess), they missed Trooping the Colour just a month later.

Charles rode horseback for his first Trooping the Colour as monarch in 2023 alongside Prince William, while Queen Camilla and Kate Middleton waved to the crowds from a carriage. 

This year, the Princess of Wales, who is the colonel-in-chief of the Irish Guards, will not take the traditional salute at the Colonel’s review, which is part of the parade due to her treatment for cancer, which she revealed in March. 

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Kinsey Schofield, host of the "To Di For Daily" podcast, told Fox News Digital last week that the mother of three will likely not attend the parade. 

"King Charles and Prince William have repeatedly stressed to the Princess of Wales that she should feel no pressure to return to public duty until she is ready," Schofield said.

Although the princess could appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the parade. 

Christopher Andersen, author of "The King: The Life of Charles III," told Fox News Digital that an appearance on the balcony would be reassuring to the public. 

"The Princess of Wales knows better than anyone what message it would send if she were absent, so I think she'll make that gesture if it's at all possible," said Andersen. "Unfortunately, at the moment. It appears that she may not be physically up to the challenge.  Whether Kate appears or doesn't, that is bound to be an emotionally charged moment for everyone. … She's soldiering on, making the best of it."

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Charles, who is also undergoing treatment for cancer, plans to ride in a horsedrawn carriage this year instead of on horseback, according to People. 

Last month, Harry returned to London to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, which he founded in 2014, but it was announced that Charles would not have time to meet with him. 

While none of the royal family attended a thanksgiving service for the games at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer who was Princess Diana’s younger brother, was there. 

Harry and Charles last met briefly in February after the king announced his cancer diagnosis. 

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Harry's relationship has grown increasingly strained since he and Markle stepped down as senior royals in 2020, eventually moving their family to California.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Buckingham Palace and Harry and Meghan's Archewell Foundation for comment.  

Rep. Chip Roy grills AG Garland over DOJ lawsuit against Texas to stop illegal immigrant enforcement

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, on Tuesday grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland over the Justice Department's lawsuit against Texas to stop the state from enforcing border security measures.

Garland was testifying before the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee during the panel's annual oversight hearing when he was asked about the court being waged against the Lone Star state. During his remarks, Roy pointed to the deaths of Lizbeth Medina and Laken Riley, both of whom were allegedly killed by illegal immigrants. 

In an effort to secure its border with Mexico and a surge in migrant arrivals, Texas has chosen to enforce immigration law as well as bus migrants to Democratic-led cities to relieve overwhelmed border towns. The Justice Department is suing the state over SB 4, which would allow local police to arrest illegal immigrants and for judges to order them deported.

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"What we have is a continued effort by the federal government to fail to secure the border of the United States and Americans are dying or getting shot… two young women are dead," Roy said. "Do you believe that Texas has a right to defend itself and to ensure that people who are in this country are not here illegally?"

As attorney general, Garland said his heart goes out to the families of those killed by illegal immigrants. 

"I say secondly, as attorney general, the way to stop people like this from coming into the United States is to give more resources to ther Border Patrol," he replied, before being cut off by Roy. 

"Lizbeth Medina would be here alive today if we were following the law," Roy said. "Laken Riley would be here today if we had not released a killer onto the streets of the United States of America through parole policies that this administration is advancing."

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"The Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing the state of Texas in court, taking valuable resources, to go against the people of Texas when Texas simply wants to say that we should have a say in stopping people who are here illegally, arrest them and be able to deal with it on our own terms when the federal government refuses to do its job," he added. 

Money won't solve the problem if the DOJ and President Biden refuse to enforce immigration laws, Roy said. 

Medina, a 16-year-old Texas high school cheerleader, was found dead in her bathtub in December 2023. The suspected killer, Rafael Govea Romero, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, is accused of stalking the high school cheerleader and aspiring nurse before allegedly striking her over the head and stabbing her in the Edna apartment that she shared with her mother.

Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University in Georgia, was attacked in February while on a run. The alleged killer, Jose Ibarra, 26, who is from Venezuela, illegally crossed into the U.S. through El Paso, Texas, in September 2022, and was released via parole.

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