If something is true in everything that happens in the life of Meghan Markle, is that he has a deep admiration and great affection for his mother Doria Ragland, a 64-year-old woman who was a former makeup artist, yoga instructor, and social worker. In fact, she was the only one in Meghan’s family to attend St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018 when her daughter and him prince harry They swore eternal love, even from the information that has emerged since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex live in the United States, is that Doria moved with them to the $ 14 million mansion they bought in Montecito, Santa Barbara.
James Arnold, who was working as a bellboy at the St. Regis Hotel in the city of Cleveland in Ohio met Netty who was the elevator operator, the two fell in love, got married and decided to have several children, one of them was Jeanette, who during his life married twice, the first with Joseph Johnson and the second with Alvin Azell Ragland, an antiques dealer who sold at flea markets, they both procreated Doria, Meghan Markle’s mother and after she was born on September 2, 1956 they moved to Los Angeles and later her parents divorced.
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Doria met Thomas Markle in the late ’70s in Los Angeles while he was a soap opera illuminator and she was a makeup artist on set. The two were married at the Self-Realization Fellowship on Sunset Boulevard, a shrine to the Hindu guru Yogananda. “I like to think that he was drawn to her sweet eyes and afro, as well as their shared love of antiques. Whatever it is, they got married and had me,” Meghan told ELLE UK magazine, however. They divorced when she was two years old.
“My mother is a yoga instructor, but she also does social work, and works specifically with the geriatric community. For me, seeing this level of lifelong sensitivity towards nurturing and caring, but at the same time, my mother has always been a free spirit. We can have a lot of fun together and yet I will still find a lot of comfort in your support. That duality coexists in the same way that a best friend would, ”Meghan Markle said in a 2017 interview for Glamor magazine. Read also: Can Elizabeth II take the titles away from Harry and Meghan?
(Prince Harry and Doria Ragland / Getty Images)
After the announcement of her daughter’s wedding to Prince Harry, Doria had to quit her job at the clinic where she worked because it became very difficult due to the public exposure to which she was subjected. Even the charm of Doria Ragland managed to capture the attention of the Queen isabel II, who invited her to spend Christmas with the royal family in Sandringham, thus becoming the first person who is not a member of royalty to be summoned to this celebration, in fact, the Middletons still do not receive that privilege. Read also: Meghan Markle: “The royal family perpetuates falsehoods about us”
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