UPDATE 12/16/2025, 12:55 p.m. ET: A spokesperson for Team Sussex has weighed in after U.K. network GB News issued an apology for a broadcaster’s recent comments about Meghan Markle‘s mom.
“Broadcasters have a responsibility to inform, not inflame,” read a statement shared with Us Weekly. “This lie was conclusively debunked more than two years ago, yet it continues to be recycled by irresponsible commentators, causing recurring harm. Ms Ragland proudly raised her daughter and has never been in prison. GB News did not apologize voluntarily, but only to escape a defamation lawsuit — and it speaks volumes that GB News removed any trace of that apology within 24hrs of making it.”
Original story below:
U.K. news network GB News has issued an apology after airing a false claim that Meghan Markle’s mother, Doria Ragland, was once imprisoned.
Broadcaster Carole Malone apologized on air Monday, December 15, after alleging earlier this month that Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, “brought her up while her mother was in jail.”
On Monday, Malone, 71, said, “On Thursday, December the 4th, 2025, I stated that Thomas Markle, the Duchess of Sussex’s father, brought Meghan up while her mother, Doria Ragland, was in prison.”
“I believed this to be the case based on what I now understand to be misinformation I had seen online,” Malone continued, per footage posted on X. “I was questioned about the validity of this claim during the broadcast and I repeated this belief, which I now understand to...
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