Doria Loyce Ragland

Doria Loyce Ragland (born September 1956) is an American yoga instructor, social worker, and the mother of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. She works at a nonprofit mental health clinic in Los Angeles. Ragland's daughter became a member of the British royal family when she married Prince Harry, the son of Prince Charles & Princess Diana of Wales, on May 19, 2018.

Her family comes from Cleveland, Ohio. According to information passed down (much of it orally) from earlier generations, the Ragland name came from William Ragland, a Methodist and a slave-holder who had emigrated during the eighteenth century from Cornwall, England to North America, settling successively in Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. It is inferred by family members that Doria Ragland's first identifiable African American Ragland ancestor was Richard Ragland, born in Jonesboro, Georgia in 1830: he lived long enough to experience the (formal) abolition of slavery in 1865.

Doria lives next to her sister Ava Burrows in Crenshaw, CA, USA.