Doria Ragland was once 23 when she tied the knot.
While Meghan Markle, 40, was once relationship Prince Harry, 37, for around 18 months before they announced their engagement in 2017, going on to get married in 2018, the Duchess of Sussex's mom Doria Ragland had a whirlwind romance with Thomas Markle earlier than they tied the knot in 1979.
In fact, Meghan's uncle, Joseph Johnson, advised The Mail on Sunday: "None of the household knew anything about Tom till we received the wedding ceremony invitations."
The couple met on the set of the cleaning soap opera General Hospital, the place Doria used to be working as a make-up artist and Thomas was the lighting director. Despite their 12-year age gap, the pair grew to be shut and got married simply six months later, when Doria used to be 23 and her husband was once 35.
Speaking of her parents, Meghan wrote in Elle: "It was once the late Seventies when my dad and mom met, my dad was once a lights director for a soap opera and my mom was a temp at the studio.
"I like to assume he was drawn to her sweet eyes and her Afro, plus their shared love of antiques. Whatever it was, they married and had me."
The pair said 'I do' at the Self-Realisation Fellowship Temple on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, a faux-Indian temple offering gold accents, stone elephants and plastic Buddhas. It was once centered through Indian yogi Paramahansa Yogananda, with Joseph explaining his sister "was fascinated by choice religions and yoga" – and it was once a passion she handed on to Duchess Meghan.
He continued: "It was a stunning wedding ceremony however now not conventional at all."
As properly as their uncommon choice of venue, Doria additionally ditched the standard wedding gown and wore a white buttoned-up shirt and skirt combo, ending off her look with extraordinarily white plant life in her hair. Meanwhile, Thomas wore a grey tweed jacket and orange shirt, and the Buddhist priest 'Brother Bhaktananda' was dressed in orange robes.
Doria and Thomas welcomed Meghan in 1981, however the couple break up when she used to be six years old. Thomas used to be additionally in the past married to Rosalyn from 1964 to 1975, and they share kids Samantha and Thomas Jr.
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