Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, began their four-day Colombia trip, after being invited by Vice President Francia Márquez, the first black woman to hold the position in the country. They were warmly greeted in Bogotá by Márquez and her partner.

The couple was accompanied by a significant security detail, including a 14-car police convoy and bulletproof briefcases.

Reports suggest King Charles and Prince William are upset that Harry and Meghan continue to use their royal status for personal gain despite stepping down as working royals, seeing their Colombia trip as defying royal protocol and family feelings.

Harry and Meghan, who reside in California and do not travel on official royal visits, focused their "DIY royal tour" in Colombia on fighting discrimination and cyberbullying in the country. They visited a museum presenting artworks by students dedicated to massacres in Colombia.

The couple's visit included an Insight Session at a school in Bogotá, followed by a summit with experts and activists to promote a positive environment. Their trip continued to Cartagena and Cali, where they attended the Petronio Alvarez music festival celebrating Afro-Colombian culture.

The visit was not an official state visit, and the Sussexes were not representing the UK government. It was part of their international engagements focused on youth online safety.

Colombia's Vice President Marquez highlighted the significance of Prince Harry's visit after Princess Diana's unrealized tour of Colombia.

Sources: Independent, Sky, Il Sole 24 Ore, Noticias Villaguay, Terra, ANSA, The News, GB News, Askanews, Express, Pinkvilla, Egypt Independent, Wales Online, Inquisitr, Harper's Bazaar, Metro News, Tribune.

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Meghan Markle's lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard (ARO), faces trademark setbacks with the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office due to incorrect classification of products like yoga mats and blankets. This could potentially delay the brand's initial launch planned for this year to 2025.

Despite the delays, Meghan has already introduced some ARO products, such as limited-edition jams and dog biscuits shared with influencer friends, suggesting a potential social media strategy. The brand is expected to offer a wide range of products, including wine, tableware, cosmetics, pet accessories, and more.

According to some reports, Netflix may take over commercial production and promotion of Meghan Markle's ARO brand before the release of her new cooking show, potentially covering costs and managing deals with wholesalers, designers, growers, and retailers.

Markle has a history in the lifestyle space with her blog The Tig and a five-year deal with Netflix until 2025. Her podcast Archetypes was canceled by Spotify after just 12 episodes, and previous trademark applications related to Archewell faced issues requiring clarification.

King Charles is expected to vacation in Balmoral, Scotland, and plans to discuss the monarchy's future without Prince Harry or Meghan Markle.

Markle celebrated her 43rd birthday on August 4, and in an interview, she said she hadn't "scraped the surface" of her suicidal thoughts and feelings.

Sources: Marie Claire, Independent, Nine, Daily Soap Dish, Monsters and Critics, GB News, InStyle, Mercury News, People, Tatler, Market Research Telecast, Express, The Blast.

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For the second year in a row, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have not received an invitation to the Trooping the Colour, the annual military parade held later this month to mark King Charles III's official birthday celebration, confirmed People magazine.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be absent from the procession this year, just as they were in 2023 following the King's coronation. Trooping the Colour, an event that has commemorated the reigning monarch's official birthday for more than 260 years, last included Harry and Meghan in 2019, a year after their wedding. They attended the parade in 2022 when they travelled to London for Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee celebration.

Three months after the Queen's passing, Prince Harry attended his father's coronation in May of last year without the Duchess. However, they missed the Trooping the Colour just a month later. At the 2023 event, Charles rode horseback for his first Trooping the Colour as monarch, accompanied by Prince William, while Queen Camilla and Kate Middleton waved to the crowds from a carriage.

This year, due to her cancer treatment revealed in March, the Princess of Wales, who holds the position of colonel-in-chief of the Irish Guards, will not take the traditional salute at the Colonel's review, a part of the parade. 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, although she could make an appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace afterwards.

Christopher Andersen, author of "The King: The Life of Charles III," stated to Fox News Digital that a balcony appearance would reassure 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."

King Charles, who is also undergoing cancer treatment, plans to ride in a horse-drawn 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. However, 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 and Princess Diana's younger brother, was present.

Harry and Charles last met briefly in February after the King announced his cancer diagnosis. Harry's relationship with the royal family has become increasingly strained since he and Markle stepped down as senior royals in 2020 and eventually moved their family to California.

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Britain's royal family stuck to routine and remained silent Friday over the second half of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan's documentary series, which made hard-hitting claims against Harry's brother, Prince William.

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While the first half of the six-part Netflix series concentrated on the couple's bruising encounters with the British media, the final three episodes aimed criticism at the royal "firm" – the family and its staff.

In three hour-long episodes released Thursday, Harry claimed William screamed at him during a family meeting and accused palace officials of lying to protect his elder sibling, who is now heir to the throne. Meghan talked about wanting to end her life as she struggled to cope with toxic press coverage.

Harry, a grandson of the late Queen Elizabeth II, married U.S. actress Meghan Markle in a fairy-tale wedding at Windsor Castle in 2018. Less than two years later the couple left Britain, citing what they saw as the media's racist treatment of Meghan and a lack of support from the palace.

In the documentary Harry, 38, said William lashed out at him during a family summit at Sandringham Castle in January 2020 to talk about the couple's plan to step down as senior royals.

"It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren't true. And my grandmother, you know, quietly sit there and take it all in," Harry said.

He also accused royal communications officials of "leaking" and "planting" stories in the media, claiming staff would seek to deflect negative coverage of one royal by issuing a story about another member of the family.

Meghan, 41, revealed she thought about killing herself amid a torrent of negative media coverage before the couple decided to make a break with the royal household.

"It was like 'All of this will stop if I am not here,'" she said.

Harry added that he believed the Mail on Sunday's publication of a letter Meghan wrote her estranged father — over which she successfully sued the paper's publisher — contributed to her having a miscarriage in 2020.

Neither Buckingham Palace, which represents the king, nor William's Kensington Palace office has commented on the series.

There were no dissenting views in the documentary, which included interviews with the couple and supportive friends and commentators.

Royal expert Pauline Maclarnan, author of "Royal Fever: The British Monarchy in Consumer Culture," said the relationship between William and Harry would be "very hard to repair" after the bombshell claims.

"This does seem to be very final," she said.

Hours after the final episodes were released, senior royals put on a show of unity, attending a Christmas charity concert in London on Thursday evening. William, his wife Kate and their two elder children, George and Charlotte, were joined at the Westminster Abbey carol concert by King Charles III, Queen Consort Camilla and other family members.

British newspapers, the focus of much of the couple's ire, were furious about the series. The Daily Mail said in an editorial that "the only saving grace" was that Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September, "was spared seeing this tawdry exercise in self-promotion."

The Sun branded Harry a "traitor," contrasting him with "dutiful" William.

The Times of London urged Meghan and Harry to give up their royal titles, Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

"Harry and Meghan must see the hypocrisy of claiming still to be royal," the newspaper said in an editorial. "They have made clear that they consider themselves to be at war with the institution of monarchy, an institution that they appear to hold in contempt."

The show comes at a crucial moment for the monarchy. The king is trying to show that the institution still has a role to play after the death in September of his mother, whose personal popularity dampened criticism of the crown during her 70-year reign.

While the Netlfix series has soured the couple's relationship with the royal family — perhaps irreparably — Maclarnan said it would likely help the couple forge their new careers as U.S.-based charity campaigners and media personalities.

"I think it will have built their brand quite well," she said. "I think a lot of people will see their perspective more, but particularly (the) younger generation. And I think really that's where they've always aimed anyway."

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No challenge is too big, or too small, for Israeli mentalist Uri Geller, who last week took credit (along with his supporters) for shifting a cargo ship that blocked the Suez Canal through the power of "concentration."

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Now Geller has his eyes on a bigger challenge: the British royal family.

The Sunday edition of British tabloid the Daily Star ran a cover story titled "Uri: Let's fix the Royals," in which Geller offers to help heal the breach between the British royals and Prince Harry and his wife, American actress Meghan Markle. Harry and Markle recently gave interviewer Oprah Winfrey their version of the events that led them to step down as working royals.

Geller posted a picture of the tabloid's front page on his Instagram and Twitter pages Sunday, captioned, "I do believe in the power of positive thinking … We are all connected to each other with an invisible spiritual thread through which we can transfer feelings and love."

I do believe in the power of positive thinking yes we are all connected to each other with an invisible spiritual thread through which we can transfer feelings and love let's utilize our combined energy and help heal the rift between the Royals. pic.twitter.com/9OwnsibQnG

— Uri Geller (@theurigeller) April 4, 2021

"Let's utilize our combined energy and help heal the rift between the Royals. And yes, I do believe in the power of prayer and the power of science," he wrote.

Geller asked his followers to send "positive thoughts" at 11:11 daily for 11 days.

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Piers Morgan, the pugnacious British presenter who has just lost his high-profile breakfast TV slot over attacks on Prince Harry's wife Meghan, said on Wednesday he still did not believe what she had said during her Oprah Winfrey interview.

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Morgan, 55, left ITV's Good Morning Britain on Tuesday after his long-running criticism of Meghan intensified in the wake of her interview with Winfrey. Morgan said on Good Morning Britain, among a torrent of other criticisms, that he did not believe a word Meghan had said. In a Tweet, he called her "Princess Pinocchio."

"On Monday, I said I didn't believe Meghan Markle in her Oprah interview. I've had time to reflect on this opinion, and I still don't. If you did, OK," Morgan said in a Tweet on Wednesday morning.

"Freedom of speech is a hill I'm happy to die on. Thanks for all the love, and hate. I'm off to spend more time with my opinions," he told his 7.8 million Twitter followers.

ITV confirmed Morgan's departure from the program in a statement saying, "Following discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good Morning Britain. ITV has accepted this decision and has nothing further to add."

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The baby, seventh-in-line to the British throne, "is absolutely to die for," the prince told reporters.

In a formal announcement on their official Instagram account, the royal couple said they "welcomed their firstborn child in the early morning on May 6, 2019. Their Royal Highnesses' son weighs 7lbs. 3oz (3.2 kg)."

"The Duchess and baby are both healthy and well, and the couple thanks members of the public for their shared excitement and support during this very special time in their lives. More details will be shared in the forthcoming days."

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin congratulated the couple on Twitter: "Warmest #congratulations to HRH Duke and Duchess of Sussex on the birth of your son. Harry and Meghan, on behalf of the people of #Israel, Nechama and I send you a big hug and our best wishes. Mazal Tov! #royalbaby"

Queen Elizabeth's grandson Harry, 34, and Meghan, 37, a U.S.-born former actress, married in a lavish ceremony at the monarch's Windsor Castle home in May last year.

The baby will be the eighth great-grandchild of the 93-year-old queen, the world's longest-reigning monarch, and could be entitled to hold joint British and American citizenship according to nationality rules.

However, the child will not automatically be a prince or a princess as any such title will have to be bestowed by the queen by issuing what is known as a letter patent.

The parents are officially titled the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Britain's royal family attracts huge media interest but the younger members, especially Harry and Meghan, are treated like Hollywood superstars.

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