Meghan shares rare photo of Thomas Markle’s mother

Meghan Markle shared a rare photo of her late grandmother, Thomas Markle’s mother, in her Netflix documentary.

Doris May Rita Sanders of Newport, Pennsylvania was born in New Hampshire, United States in 1920.

She married Gordon Arnold in 1941 and had Thomas Markle three years later.

Ms. Sanders died at the age of 91 in November 2011.

Very few details are known about Meghan’s paternal grandmother, and the 41-year-old royal has decided not to publish too many photos of her in the media.

Meghan spoke about the queen reminding her of her grandmother, saying: “She was so close to my grandmother and I took care of her in her later years.”

The Duchess of Sussex told a story of when the former monarch had a blanket and put it over his legs on his trip to Cheshire.

She said: ‘I acknowledge and respect and see [that she is] the Queen, but right now I’m so grateful that there’s a grandmother figure because that feels like family.’

Of the Queen, more generally, she said: “I treated her like my husband’s grandmother, and knowing that there has to be a completely different sense of propriety in public.”

But being able to have breakfast and ‘sit’ and talk to Her Majesty meant a lot to Meghan.

She added: “It was a good day, we had a laugh.”

More information is known about Meghan’s maternal grandparents, Alvin Azell Ragland and Jeanette Ragland.

Alvin died in 2011 after falling on a dog and hitting his head, while Jeanette died in 2000 at the age of 71 after suffering a stroke.

When Jeanette suffered a stroke in later life, Meghan helped take care of her.

Jeanette grew up in Cleveland where she married Joseph Johnson Snr. The couple had two children: Joseph Jnr and Saundra.

For five years, Jeanette struggled as a single mother. Alvin Ragland became Jeanette’s second husband and is the father of Meghan’s mother, Doria.

The first three episodes of Harry & Meghan, part of the Sussexes’ multi-million dollar deal with Netflix, aired last week, with the final three hour-long episodes airing starting today.

The Sussexes’ six-part show, part of their multi-million dollar deal with Netflix, has become the streaming giant’s most watched documentary in a week of release, debuting with 81.55 million hours watched.

The opening installment covered the couple’s courtship and romance, but many were deeply unhappy with the show’s all-out assault on the late Queen’s Commonwealth legacy, with some saying it appeared the couple wanted to “overthrow the monarchy”.

Elsewhere in the opening scenes of the fourth episode, black-and-white footage of the late Queen’s wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh is shown.

It then switches to Meghan recounting how her private secretary, who worked for the Queen for 20 years, had told her: “She’s like a fish that swims perfectly.” It’s powerful, it’s in the right stream. Then one day this little organism comes in.

This strange organism. And everything goes… What is that? What are you doing here? It doesn’t look like us. It doesn’t move like us. We don’t like it. Get it off of us.

‘And she just explained that, you know, you’ll soon see, that he’s stronger, faster, even better with this organism as part of him.

“It’s going to be hard at first for them to adjust to this new thing, but then it’s going to be amazing.”

Meghan adds: “And I was really hoping that was true.”

In the episode, Meghan also describes her wedding day and how she prepared by eating a “mimosa and a croissant” and playing the song “Going to the Chapel.”

As images of cheering crowds of fans waving the Union flag flashed across the screen, Meghan’s friend Meghan Dorak recalled the “big and spectacular” nature of the day.

Says Meghan: “I knew that on the way to the castle it would be tons of people. What I didn’t know was that people would be lining up on both sides of the street.

Harry adds: “There was an expectation that Diana’s son would have a public wedding. It was like ‘mission complete with William, now let’s see if we can go all the way with Harry and say job done.’

As footage of the wedding plays in St George’s Chapel, Harry recalls how his father, King Charles, helped him choose an orchestra.

Adds Meghan: “Harry’s father is very lovely. And I told him… like. I lost my dad in this, so he as my father-in-law was very important to me, so I asked him to walk me down the aisle and said yes.

‘Everything was surreal. It was at that moment that I also saw H.’

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