Netflix released the
first three episodes of Harry and Megan, a documentary on the relationship of Prince
Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex on Thursday, December 8.

Doria Ragland, mother
of the Duchess made an appearance in the series and described her feelings about
her daughter’s life and the royal family. In her first public comments, she
also talked about how she realized Prince Harry was ‘the one’ for her daughter
and how she regrets not warning Meghan of the racial prejudices she would face.

“We were on the phone and she says, mommy, I’m going out
with Prince Harry and I start whispering, oh my God. And so it was from the
beginning, it was very sort of, oh my God, nobody can know.”, Ragland said.

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She
also talked about how she was greatly impressed by Harry on their first
meeting, saying, “He was 6’1”, a handsome man with red hair, really great
manners. He was just really nice. And they looked really happy together.
Yeah, like he was the one.”

Speaking
about her regrets, she said, “As a parent, in hindsight, I would absolutely like
to go back and have that very real conversation about how the world sees you”. “The
last five years have been challenging”, she added.

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Who is Doria Ragland?

Doria
Loyce Ragland was born on September 2, 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Jeanette
Arnold, a nurse, and Alvin Azell Ragland, an antiques dealer.  Her parents moved to Los Angeles when Ragland
was still a baby. Her parents separated a few years later. Ragland has two older
maternal half-siblings, Joseph, who passed away in 2021, and Saundra Johnson,
and a younger paternal half-brother, Alvin Joffrey Ragland.

As
per information passed down verbally, the Ragland family descends from Richard
Ragland who was born into slavery in Georgia in the early 1800s.

After
graduating from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, Ragland started working as
a temporary makeup artist. She completed her Bachelor’s in Psychology and earned
a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern California.

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After passing
California’s licensing exam in 2015, she worked as a social worker for three
years at the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services clinic in Culver
City. Ragland has worked as a travel agent, and a yoga instructor and has
also owned a business. In 2020, she started teaching jewelry making at Santa Monica College and also became the CEO and CFO of a care home firm in
Beverly Hills.

Ragland married
American television lighting director Thomas Markle Sr. in 1979. Their daughter
Meghan was born in 1981. The couple divorced when Megan was six years old, although
they both contributed to raising their daughter.