Latest sign King Charles refuses to mend bond with Prince Harry

King Charles seems determined to keep Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at a distance, with their rift showing no signs of being fixed.

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

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 has confirmed.

Harry and Meghan Markle. Picture: Getty.

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

The annual event is scheduled to take place on June 15.

Although Harry and Meghan quit their roles as senior members of the royal family in 2020, Queen Elizabeth II still allowed the couple to make a subtle appearance at the 2022 Trooping the Colour parade.

The couple were photographed at the time chatting in the Major General’s Office at Buckingham Palace during the kick-off event for the Queen’s four-day Platinum Jubilee celebration.

However, Harry and Meghan were noticeably missing from the Buckingham Palace balcony photos that year, and the Queen was instead joined by then-Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles, Prince William, Kate Middleton and their three children.

Sources told The Post at the time that royal courtiers were allegedly worried that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would steal the monarch’s thunder if they were present for the photo-op.

Meanwhile, ever since Charles took over his mother’s royal duties after her passing in September 2022, he has seemingly taken an even firmer stance on Harry and Meghan’s involvement in royal affairs.

His firm stance began when he decided to not invite the Sussexes to his first Trooping the Colour, which took place last year. A few months later, he then had the pair wiped from the royal family’s website.

An expert recently claimed that it’s unlikely Prince Harry will be stripped of his royal titles. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images for Invictus Games Foundation.

Elsewhere, a royal expert has claimed that it’s unlikely that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be stripped of their titles.

Ingrid Seward, editor in chief of Majesty Magazine, told The Royal Beat that it’s unlikely Meghan and Prince Harry will be stripped of their royal titles by King Charles III, even though they quit their royal duties in 2020.

“I don’t think anything will happen to the titles because, if they lose their titles, Harry is still a prince of the blood and Meghan, instead of being the Duchess of Sussex, [would] be Princess Henry,” Seward said, according to The Mirror.

She went on to suggest that were the Palace to strip the pair of the titles it could be seen as “unkind” move by the public.

“That really would [confuse the Americans],” she added. “I think [it’s] probably best just to leave it because it looks unkind, it looks unnecessary.”