Meghan Markle's mother has gone back to Los Angeles after spending more than two months in the U.K. Doria Ragland, 62, has been seen walking her dogs in the neighborhood.
The Daily Mail had photos of Ragland in Los Angeles doing her usual stroll with her pets. Royal watchers now wonder who's helping the Duchess take care of her two-week-old son since Meghan and Prince Harry reportedly didn't want to hire a nanny for Archie Harrison.
A source from Grazia said that Ragland had been an indispensable help in the Sussex household since Archie was born. The first-time grandmother is expected to make frequent visits to the U.K., and she has her suite at the royal couple's Frogmore Cottage home.
However, Ragland has a job in Los Angeles that she was not yet ready to give up. Reports stated that she intends to enroll in a grandparenting class among other Hollywood moms.
"Doria is very important to Meghan and vice-versa. So, I'm sure she wants to be a big part of her life, and her baby's life. She'll be a wonderful grandmother," Ragland's stepmother Ava Burrows told the press.
Meanwhile, reports revealed that the Duchess' best friend Jessica Mulroney has arrived in the U.K. to meet baby Archie for the first time. Mulroney was seen at the Pearson International Airport in Toronto boarding a flight to the U.K. with her five-year-old daughter, as per Hello!
Before she left, Mulroney posted on her Instagram that she was taking a mother-daughter trip. She didn't reveal where she was headed though, but she expressed her excitement about leaving that her followers guessed she would be flying to the U.K. to see the Duchess.
Meanwhile, royal biographer Angela Levin said that the Duchess of Sussex is still not quite welcome among Prince Harry's circle, as per another report on the Daily Mail. In the documentary Meghan and Harry Plus One, Levin said that Harrys's friends think she is the one "running the show" and they cannot warm up to her for speaking her mind.
The documentary, which aired on CBS, featured many of Meghan's close friends who defended the former actress from all the negative press she's getting from the British tabloids. Her friends said that Markle is quite low-maintenance despite reports that she's demanding.
"I think that the racist overtones are still there," one royal watcher said in the documentary. "I think that the sexist and misogynist overtones are still there."
The Buckingham Palace issued a statement, however, on behalf of the royal family to address the documentary: "The Duchess has not had any involvement in the CBS special, nor requested or given permission to friends to participate."
