Doria Ragland defends Meghan Markle in a rare interview

Meghan Markle’s mother Doria Ragland is a firm and favorable presence in the life of her only child, but rarely, if never, gives interviews.

Souciel to let her daughter take the spotlight, Ragland is seen not only in a recent Instagram post Meghan made – where the two tested the “Chantilly Lili” dessert from Meghan, named after her “darling daughter”, Princess Lilibet – but also in a 2 -2 April profile from Meghan to Meghan The New York Times. In his Steel and discreet way, Ragland defended Meghan against criticisms who zoom in on the use of Le Creuset’s cuisine by Meghan in his Netflix series With love, Meghan.

The New York Times Underlined in the article that Meghan team members “paint the comments and social networks”, so Meghan does not have to do so. When he told him about the controversy of the crucible, Meghan replied: “Is that one thing in 2025?” As she threw her hands and turned to her mother.

“Everyone is coming hot these days,” said Ragland calmly.

Elsewhere in the article, Meghan “rolled his eyes on his mother, as the girls do” when Ragland said that she did not need a hand mixer because he always has a KitchenAid stand mixer. The article describes Ragland as “graceful in jeans, white t-shirt and silver nose ring” as it “searched for breakfast in the double width refrigerator”. Ragland opens with his family in the article, in particular his father, Alvin, whose roots were in Tennessee and who “wore a bottle of rooster red spicy sauce wherever he went,” said Ragland

But most of the attention is paid to Ragland’s mother, Jeanette – or “Grandmother Jeanette” in Meghan – who was skillful to cook and garden and who grew up on the Greens and tomatoes in her Crenshaw district. She “whipped the pies by hand from zero after dinner and has done almost all her kitchen in a cast iron pan”, of which Ragland is now the owner.

“My mother always has the cast iron pan of grandmother Jeanette,” said Meghan in the article of the kitchen alone that money cannot buy. “That’s what I really want.”

Grandmother Jeanette’s house is the place where Meghan often went after school, where “she did the best snack after school,” said Meghan. “Kraft Greld cheese on white bread.”

“All this butter,” added Meghan.

In another part of the interview – when Meghan and his mother tested a homemade vanilla pudding – Ragland stressed that if “grandmother Jeanette would have used instantly”, the late matriarch of the family “would have loved it”.