Doria Ragland attends Honor Titus art show on July 20.Photo:BACKGRID

Meghan Markle’s mother, Doria Ragland is seen checking out Honor Titus art show with a friend before heading to dinner at Il Fornaio restaurant.

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Meghan Markle’s mom,Doria Ragland, had an artsy outing in California.

Meghan and Doria share a close relationship and have given glimpses of their bond through the years.

“Meghan draws a lot of strength from her mother.Doria is classy, chic and confident, but not unapproachable,” Meghan’s longtime friend and makeup artist Daniel Martin told PEOPLE in 2018. “I definitely feel Meghan gets a lot of that from her mother.”

Doria Ragland visits Honor Titus art show on July 20.BACKGRID

Meghan Markle’s mother, Doria Ragland is seen checking out Honor Titus art show with a friend before heading to dinner at Il Fornaio restaurant.

When Meghan and Prince Harry were living in the U.K., Doria often traveled from her home in California to visit her daughter and son-in-law during milestone moments like their 2018royal weddingandthe birth of their first child, son Archie, in 2019. Doria stayed with the couple at Frogmore Cottage to assist them during their early days as parents.

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Since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved to California in 2020, Doria is a fixture in the lives of Meghan and Harry as well as their two children,Prince Archie, 4, andPrincess Lilibet, 2.

Doria Ragland, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in 2018.Ben STANSALL / POOL / AFP via Getty

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (C), her mother, Doria Ragland (L) and Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex take part in the launch of a cookbook with recipes from a group of women affected by the Grenfell Tower fire at Kensington Palace in London on September 20, 2018

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Doria spoke out publicly for the first timein theNetflixdocuseriesHarry & Meghan, which debuted in December.

Recalling how Meghan, 41, first told hershe was dating the member of the royal family, Doria said, “We were on the phone and she says, ‘Mommy, I’m going out with Prince Harry,’ and I start whispering, ‘Oh my God.’ "

“And so it was from the beginning, it was very sort of, ‘Oh my God, nobody can know,’ " she continued.

Of Prince Harry, 38, Doria said she noticed he was “handsome” and “really nice” upon first meeting him,with “really great manners.” She added, “And they looked really happy together.”

However, Doria also admitted that it had been “challenging.”

“I felt unsafe a lot. I can’t just go walk my dogs. I can’t just go to work. There was always someone there waiting for me,” she explained.

Doria Ragland, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2023.Kevin Mazur/Getty

Doria Ragland, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex attend the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awards: Celebrating Generations of Progress & Power at Ziegfeld Ballroom on May 16, 2023

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During her speech at the event, Meghan recalled seeing the diversity in the pages ofMs.magazines.Her mom, Meghan said, “had a subscription and having these pages in our home, it signaled to me that there was just so much more than the dolled-up covers and the images that you would see on the grocery store covers.”

“It signaled to me that substance mattered,” the Duchess of Sussex added.

source: people.com