11 Facts About Doria Ragland

Doria Loyce Ragland was born on September 2,1956 and is an American social worker.

Doria Ragland is the mother of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and the ex-wife of American retired television lighting director and director of photography Thomas Markle Sr.

Doria Ragland was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to nurse Jeanette Arnold and her second husband Alvin Azell Ragland, an antiques dealer who sold items at flea markets.

Doria Ragland's parents moved to Los Angeles when Ragland was a baby and later divorced.

Doria Ragland has two older maternal half-siblings, Joseph, and a younger paternal half-brother, Alvin Joffrey Doria Ragland.

The family's Doria Ragland surname came from slave-owner William Doria Ragland, a Methodist planter and land speculator who had emigrated during the eighteenth century from Cornwall, England, to North America.

Doria Ragland worked as a travel agent and owned a small business.

Doria Ragland married lighting director Thomas Markle on December 23,1979, at Hollywood's Paramahansa Yogananda Self-Realization Fellowship Temple in a ceremony performed by Brother Bhaktananda.

Doria Ragland has accompanied Meghan to public events and attended her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry in Berkshire.

Doria Ragland flew to the United Kingdom to see her grandson, Prince Archie of Sussex, and his parents.

Doria Ragland's granddaughter, Princess Lilibet of Sussex, was born on June 4,2021, in Santa Barbara, California.