Hi, i’m Meg’s mom
duchess’s special guest at launch of first solo project
MEGHAN Markle’s mother made a surprise appearance for her girl’s first royal solo project, proudly telling guests: “Hi, I’m Meg’s mom.”
Doria Ragland was special guest yesterday as the Duchess of Sussex launched her book of 50 recipes from Grenfell Tower women.
Meghan, 37, told guests she had felt “immediately embraced” by them when she started working on Together: Our Community Cookbook.
And she spoke passionately of how the multicultural Hubb Community Kitchen made her feel welcome in the capital. It comes after we revealed that Meghan made secret trips in January to a mosque to cook with survivors of the tower-block blaze, which killed 72.
The duchess said yesterday: “I had just recently moved to London and I felt so immediately embraced by the women of the kitchen.
“Your warmth and your kindness, and also to be in this city and see in this one small room how multicultural it was.
“I felt so proud to live in a city that can have so much diversity.
That there are
12 countries represented in this one small room is pretty outstanding.” Yoga teacher Doria, 62, flew in from her home in Los Angeles to join Meghan and Prince Harry in celebrating the launch, in a tent at Kensington Palace, West London. Mum and daughter were seen laughing warmly during their first public outing since Meghan wed Harry, 34, in May. The trio chatted with guests and families affected by the fire, and made their way around four food stations, with Meghan helping to cook.
Residents left homeless by the blaze last June came together to open the Hubb Community Kitchen, but could only fund it for a short period of time.
It is hoped sales of the book, which Meghan called a “tremendous labour of love”, will help the kitchen extend opening from its current two days a week to seven for the next two years.
The duchess added: “I’m especially grateful because this is my first project, so I appreciate your support for the vision that I had for this and seeing it come to fruition.
“It truly took a village to see this through.”