Doria Ragland’s birth story with her royal daughter Meghan Markle

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex live in sunny California with their two children, Prince Archie, age five, and Princess Lilibet, three.

The royal couple are lucky to have one of their children’s grandparents living nearby to help them with childcare, Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland, with their sprawling Montecito mansion having guest accommodation for her visits.

Doria, 67, lives in the View Park-Windsor Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, approximately an hour and half away by car.

Meghan lived in Canada during her time filming the TV show Suits and in London and Windsor following her marriage to Prince Harry.

It’s now rather fitting that the actress and mum-of-two is living back in the very state she was born in, California, with her mum close by.

Doria and Thomas Markle meet
Doria met her former husband and Meghan’s father Thomas Markle in California during the seventies.

It was marriage number two for Thomas, who had divorced his first wife Roslyn, with whom he shares his son, Thomas Junior, and his daughter, Samantha.