Doria ragland biography definition

American social worker and yoga instructor (born )

Doria Loyce Ragland (born September 2, )^[1][a] is the mother of Meghan Markle and the ex-wife of American retired television lighting director and director of photography Thomas Markle Sr..

Ragland holds a degree in social work and is a former makeup artist and yoga instructor.

Early life

Doria Ragland was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to nurse Jeanette Arnold (–) and her second husband Alvin Azell Ragland (–),^[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 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 , her father married kindergarten teacher Ava Burrow,^[7] who is near to Ragland's age; the two remaine