Doria Ragland has a net worth of more than $5 million as of July 2021. Her accomplishments as a former cosmetics artist, company owner, yoga teacher, and social worker has helped her amass such a large wealth.

Her net worth had reached an all-time low in 2000, when she filed bankruptcy due to business failure.

Her net worth includes a home in the opulent View Park–Windsor Hills neighborhood of California, which she inherited from her father in 2011.

Doria Ragland was born on September 2, 1956, making her 64 years old at the time of her 2020 birthday celebration. Her hometown is Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. She is the daughter of Jeanette Arnold, her mother, and Alvin Azell Ragland, her second husband. Her mother worked as a nurse, while her father worked as an antique trader at flea markets. Her parents subsequently divorced. James and Nettie Arnold, her maternal grandparents, worked as bellhops and elevator operators at the whites-only Hotel St. Regis on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, respectively. Joseph Jr. and Saundra Johnson, two older maternal half-siblings, and Joffrey Ragland, a younger paternal half-brother, are her maternal half-siblings. She is an American citizen with an African-American ethnic heritage, making her a member of the black race. Her zodiac sign is Virgo, and she is a Christian.

Doria received her schooling at Fairfax High School in Fairfax, Virginia. She then dropped out of high school to pursue a career as a cosmetics artist. She then obtained a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Southern California, as well as a Master of Social Work in 2011.

Family

On December 23, 1979, Ragland married Thomas in the Self-Realization Fellowship Temple in Hollywood. They also have a daughter, Meghan Markle, who was born in 1981.

Thomas Markle is white, while Doria Ragland is black. Due to their mixed background and racial prejudice, their marriage status was hindered. As a result of their disagreements, they divorced in 1988.

Ragland’s first grandchild, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on May 6, 2019, and she traveled from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom to meet him and his parents. She also attended her grandson’s baptism in the private chapel at Windsor Castle in July of that year.

Ragland worked as a makeup artist after high school, and it was there that she met her ex husband Thomas Markle, who she met while working at the General Hospital studio. Before filing for bankruptcy in the mid-2000s, she worked as a travel agent and ran a small company. She went on to get a bachelor’s degree in psychology from an unnamed institution. Ragland earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California in 2011 and passed her social work licensure test in California in 2015. Ragland spent three years as a social worker at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, a mental health facility in Culver City, California. Ragland left the facility in May 2018, just after Meghan and Harry exchanged vows. Ragland has also held the position of yoga teacher.