Doria Ragland

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Doria Ragland
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Ragland in May 2018
Born
Doria Loyce Ragland

(1956-09-02) September 2, 1956 (age 65)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Southern California (MSW)
Occupation
  • Social worker
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1979; div. 1987)​
ChildrenMeghan, Duchess of Sussex
FamilyRagland

Doria Loyce Ragland (born September 2, 1956)[1][a] is an American social worker, and former makeup artist and yoga instructor.

Early life[]

Doria Ragland was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to nurse Jeanette Arnold (1929–2000) and her second husband Alvin Azell Ragland (1929–2011),[3] an antiques dealer who sold items at flea markets.[4] Ragland's maternal grandparents, James and Nettie Arnold, respectively worked as a bellhop and an elevator operator at the Blacks-only Hotel St. Regis on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland.[3][5][6] Her parents moved to Los Angeles when Ragland was a baby[3] and later divorced. In 1983, her father married kindergarten teacher Ava Burrow,[7] who is near to Ragland's age; the two remained close after that marriage also ended in divorce.[8] Ragland has two older maternal half-siblings, Joseph Jr. and Saundra Johnson, and a younger paternal half-brother, Joffrey Ragland.[9][b]

Career and education[]

After leaving Fairfax High School,[4] Ragland worked as a makeup artist and met her future husband, Thomas Markle, while employed on the set of the television show General Hospital. She later worked as a travel agent and owned a small business, before filing for bankruptcy in the mid-2000s.[10] Ragland completed a Bachelor of Arts in psychology.[4] In 2011, she earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California.[11][c] After passing California's licensing exam in 2015, she was a social worker for three years at the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services clinic in Culver City.[12][13][14][15][16] Ragland has also worked as a yoga instructor.[17] In 2020, Ragland became CEO, CFO and secretary of a care home firm in Beverly Hills, Loving Kindness Senior Care Management.[18]

Personal life[]

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.[19][11] They divorced in 1987.[17][20] Their daughter, Meghan, was born in 1981. Both parents contributed to raising her.[4] Ragland resides in View Park–Windsor Hills, California,[21][22] in a house inherited from her father in 2011.[4] She has accompanied Meghan to public events and attended her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry in London.[23][24] Ragland became a grandmother on May 6, 2019. She flew to the UK to see her grandson, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, and his parents.[25] In July, she attended Archie's christening at the private chapel at Windsor Castle.[25] Her granddaughter, Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on June 4, 2021 in Santa Barbara, California.[26]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ A genealogical blog published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society contains an essay by a staff member that says she was born September 15, 1956.[2]
  2. ^ According to information passed down (much of it verbally) from earlier generations, the Ragland name came from William Ragland, a Methodist who had emigrated during the eighteenth century from Cornwall, England to North America, settling successively in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia.[5] It is inferred by family members that her first identifiable African American Ragland ancestor was Richard Ragland, born in Jonesboro, Georgia, in 1830; he lived long enough to experience the abolition of slavery in 1865.[5]
  3. ^ The New Yorker magazine mentions that the relationship between Meghan and her mother is close. The article quotes Meghan as saying of their relationship as being an "us against the world". Meghan paid for her mother to attend graduate school when she became wealthy. On Meghan's blog she is quoted as saying in a Mother's Day post "There's no Imitation of Life drama", referring to a film in which a light-skinned daughter that has been passing for white shuns her dark-skinned mother.

References[]

  1. ^ Morton, Andrew (April 17, 2018). Meghan: A Hollywood Princess. Grand Central Publishing. p. PT19. ISBN 978-1-5387-4734-6. Archived from the original on August 5, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  2. ^ Child, Christopher C. (May 18, 2018). "Meghan Markle's maternal family". Vita Brevis. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Archived from the original on May 23, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Driscoll, Kara. "Meghan Markle has an extraordinary connection to Ohio". Dayton Daily News. Archived from the original on May 19, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2018. ...While Meghan Markle is headed across the pond for the royal wedding, her roots are deeply connected to Ohio.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Alexander, Harriet (May 19, 2018). "Meet Meghan Markle's family: The diplomat uncle, the yoga teacher mother and the cannabis-growing nephew". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on May 20, 2018. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Morton, Andrew (2018). Meghan: Von Hollywood in den Buckingham-Palast. Ein modernes Märchen. Heyne Verlag. ISBN 978-3-641-23580-2. Archived from the original on August 5, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  6. ^ DeMarco, Lauren (May 8, 2018). "Meghan Markle's surprising Cleveland connection: The Royal Wedding". Cleveland Plain Dealer. Archived from the original on May 18, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  7. ^ Freeman, Kasey (November 27, 2017). "Prince Harry's American fiancee has ties to Chattanooga". WRCB-TV. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
  8. ^ "Why most of Meghan Markle's family won't make it to the royal wedding - Macleans.ca". Macleans.ca. April 13, 2018. Archived from the original on June 11, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  9. ^ "Meghan: From actress to duchess". BBC News. October 15, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  10. ^ Morton, A. (April 12, 2018). Meghan: A Hollywood Princess (304 pages). Michael O'Mara Books, 2018. p. Chapter 2 – Growing up Markle. ISBN 978-1782439653. Archived from the original on June 15, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2018. She (Doria) also worked as a travel agent....
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b Carroll, Leslie (2010). Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire. Penguin Publishing Group. p. 468. ISBN 978-1-101-15977-4. Archived from the original on August 5, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  12. ^ Dewan, Angela (May 19, 2018). "Doria Ragland: Meghan Markle's mother by her side on wedding day". CNN. Archived from the original on May 20, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  13. ^ Smithers Peckham, Tina (April 30, 2018). "Doria Ragland: 7 Things to Know About Meghan Markle's Mother". Entertainment Tonight. Archived from the original on May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2018 – via Yahoo News.
  14. ^ Williams, Janice (May 19, 2018). "Who is Doria Ragland?". Newsweek. Archived from the original on May 19, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  15. ^ Lapin, Tamar (May 15, 2018). "Meghan Markle's mom quits job at mental health clinic". Page Six. Archived from the original on May 20, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  16. ^ "Meghan Markle's mother has reportedly quit her job at a Los Angeles mental health clinic". New York Post. May 15, 2018. Archived from the original on May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2018 – via Fox News.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b Porter, Lauren (May 19, 2018). "Who Is Meghan Markle's Mom? 7 Things To Know About Doria Ragland". Essence. Archived from the original on May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  18. ^ Blackett, L'Oréal (September 28, 2020). "What We Know About Doria Ragland's New Job". Bustle. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
  19. ^ Chhabra, Shivani (May 25, 2018). "Did you know Meghan Markle's parents got married at an Indian temple?". India Today. Archived from the original on May 26, 2018. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  20. ^ Jones, Richard (May 17, 2018). "Thomas Markle Snr: How Meghan Markle's reclusive father helped propel her into the spotlight". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on May 18, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  21. ^ Willgress, Lydia; Boyle, Danny (November 8, 2016). "Who is Meghan Markle? Everything we know about Prince Harry's girlfriend". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on November 12, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  22. ^ Morris, Regan (September 27, 2017). "'Meghan who?' LA shrugs over Harry's hometown girlfriend". BBC News. Archived from the original on September 30, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017. But Markle's mother lives in the View Park-Windsor Hills neighborhood, one of the wealthiest primarily African-American areas in the US.
  23. ^ AOL Staff. "Meghan Markle's mom Doria Ragland seen headed to London amid drama around Meghan's father". aol.com. Archived from the original on May 19, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  24. ^ "What You Need to Know About Meghan Markle's Mother Doria Ragland". Town and Country. May 19, 2018. Archived from the original on May 19, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  25. ^ Jump up to: a b Furness, Hannah (July 7, 2019). "Modernity meets tradition as Prince Harry and Meghan show first official pictures of Archie Mountbatten-Windsor's christening". The Telegraph. UK. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  26. ^ Foster, Max; Said-Moorhouse, Lauren (June 6, 2021). "Meghan and Prince Harry welcome second child". CNN. Retrieved June 6, 2021.

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