Meghan Markle lays flowers at Texas school shooting memorial in surprise appearance days after dad rushed to hospital

MEGHAN Markle was seen laying flowers at a Texas school shooting memorial in a surprise appearance on Thursday - just days after her dad was rushed to a hospital.

The British Duchess of Sussex put a bouquet outside the Uvalde County Courthouse, near where Salvador Ramos went on a rampage at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday.

Dressed in blue jeans, white sneakers, a T-shirt, and a hat, the casually-dressed Duchess was seen dropping off a bouquet of white roses on Thursday.

Meghan was also seen wearing Princess Diana's $23,000 Cartier Tank Watch and a Cartier Love Bracelet, according to the Daily Mail.

With her bodyguard nearby, Meghan paid her respects alongside crosses left in memory of the Uvalde shooting victims.

The roses, which were beautifully wrapped with purple ribbon, were placed down by a cross for Uziyah Garcia, 10, reading: "You will be missed," as per The Los Angeles Times.

The 10-year-old boy's dad, 35-year-old Sergio Garcia said Uziyah was his "world" and his "everything."

"Now I’m never going to get to hold him again, never going to get to kiss him again," Garcia said, according to the LA Times.

Meghan's appearance comes in the wake of her dad being left unable to speak after suffering a "major stroke" less than a week before he was due to travel to the UK for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

Her dad, 77-year-old Thomas Markle Sr, was struck by a health emergency in Mexico and had to be taken across the border to San Diego in an ambulance while using an oxygen mask.

He was said to have lost his speech following the incident on Monday night which came after he already suffered a health scare last week, sources told The Sun.

His condition was so serious he could only communicate by scrawling down messages on a piece of paper, pals said.

Meghan’s older half-brother Thomas Markle Jr, 55, was with him in Rosarito, the Mexican beach resort where he lives, on Monday when he was taken ill.

His daughter Samanta Markle, 57, is understood to be flying in from Florida to be by his side.

His estranged daughter Meghan, 40, and son-in-law Prince Harry, 37, are also due to fly into the UK for the jubilee next week.

Meghan's memorial sighting also comes just two days after 18-year-old Ramos allegedly shot his grandmother before fleeing her home in her pickup truck, crashing his vehicle, and gaining entry into Robb Elementary school.

His rampage inside the Uvalde, Texas, school left 19 students and two teachers dead, and more than a dozen others injured.