{"id":345743,"date":"2025-08-15T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345743\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:30:12","slug":"meghan-markle-snubbed-by-a-list-best-friends-for-her-44th-birthday-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345743\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle snubbed by A-List best friends for her 44th birthday | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle\u2019s birthday has come and gone with not a whisper from the Royal Family, which isn\u2019t all that surprising because it wasn\u2019t expected, but there are a few friends who were no-shows and have wished Meghan a happy birthday in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Meghan is known to kick people out of her friend circle and not look back, but we have a feeling she would like to hold onto Beyonc\u00e9, Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, who were nowhere to be found on the Duchess\u2019 big day.<\/p>\n<p>And while it may not be hugely surprising that the A-list celebs didn\u2019t turn to social media to wish Meghan a birthday, as they may be busy, or could have sent her a private message, this hasn\u2019t always been the case.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, all three media giants sent Meghan public birthday messages, with Beyonc\u00e9 posting on her website in 2021, Tyler Perry posting a note in 2022, and Oprah Winfrey rounding out the birthday tour in 2023, but it seems like the public shout-outs have slowed down.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly, it\u2019s just a natural progression, that people pull back on social media and it\u2019s nothing personal, and they could have easily sent the Duchess birthday messages via text or even a card in the mail.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also possible this was done on purpose, that Meghan asked to have a quiet birthday, including social media, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>\u2019s trip to the UK coming up and Meghan being urged to keep quiet as not to throw the plans off.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pure speculation, but possibly Meghan saw the warning and asked friends and family to fly under the radar on her birthday as not to make a big thing of it and she\u2019s putting her husband first.<\/p>\n<p>Harry is scheduled to return to the UK in September for the WellChild Awards, in which he is a patron, and while there, he hopes to meet with Charles.<\/p>\n<p>Harry\u2019s reps and Charles\u2019 rep met last month in a public setting, which got people talking about a possible reconciliation in the making, with a number of people cheering for it to happen.<\/p>\n<p>This is a big deal, for both Harry and the Royal Family, as the monarchy is revered for being adaptable and consistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle\u2019s birthday has come and gone with not a whisper from the Royal Family, which isn\u2019t all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[122711,7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,7723,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-345743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-beyonceu0301","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","11":"tag-duke-of-sussex","12":"tag-harry","13":"tag-meghan","14":"tag-meghan-markle","15":"tag-oprah-winfrey","16":"tag-prince-harry","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115031141674436323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}