Doria Ragland is an American social worker and a former make-up artist. She was put in the limelight as Meghan Markle’s mother.
Doria Ragland Net Worth
Doria Ragland ’s net worth is between $1 million to $5 million. She was a social worker at the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services Clinic in Culver City in California for three years. She also worked as a yoga instructor. Moreover, she worked at a care home firm in Beverly Hills called the Loving Kindness Senior Care Management.
In 2000, she filed bankruptcy due to her failed small business.
She owns an extravagant mansion in View Park–Windsor Hills, California, USA which she inherited from her father in 2011.
Personal Life
Doria Ragland was born on September 2, 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Jeanette Arnold, a nurse, and her second husband Alvin Azell Ragland, an antiques dealer in a flea market. When she was younger, their family relocated to Los Angeles. Her parents later divorced in 1983, and her father remarried a kindergarten teacher named Ava Burrow.
Doria has two older maternal half-siblings, Joseph and Saundra Johnson, and a younger paternal half-brother named Alvin Joffrey Ragland.
She went to Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. After graduating, she worked as a make-up artist. While working as one, she met Thomas Markle. They married in 1979 and got divorced in 1987. After they separated, Ragland worked as an air stewardess and Markle was left with their daughter, Meghan.
Ragland completed a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. In 2011, she earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. She passed California’s licensing exam in 2015 and became a social worker for three years at the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services clinic in Culver City.
Her daughter is the actress Meghan Markle who is now married to British Royalty, Prince Harry. She has two grandchildren from Meghan – Archie Mountbatten-Windsor and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor.
Ragland resides in View Park–Windsor Hills, California, in a house she inherited from her father.
Professional Career
Doria Ragland worked as a makeup artist on the set of General Hospital, the second-longest running American soap opera.
She worked as an air stewardess after her divorce. After, she was a travel agent and owned a small business which caused her to file bankruptcy in 2000.
She passed California’s licensing exam for social workers in 2015. She was a social worker for three years at the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services clinic in Culver City, California. She was also a yoga instructor.
In 2020, it was reported that she would teach a jewelry making course at Santa Monica College. Also in 2020, Doria became the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, and secretary of a care home firm in Beverly Hills, called Loving Kindness Senior Care Management.
Doria Ragland Relationship Status
Doria Ragland married the lighting director Thomas Markle December 23, 1979, at Hollywood’s Paramahansa Yogananda Self-Realization Fellowship Temple.
Their daughter, Meghan, was born in 1981. Meghan is married to Prince Harry and is also known as the Duchess of Sussex.
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