She divorced Thomas Markle in 1975, four years before he married Doria Ragland, the Duchess’s mother, in 1979.Meghan was born in 1981, the only daughter of Thomas Sr and Miss Ragland. In a statement on the 2019 letter released on Saturday, the Met said: “Following a thorough review of Met Police systems and records, we have confirmed that in January 2019, we received a letter containing a number of claims about alleged offending outside the United Kingdom.“It was sent to the MPS Protection Command to raise concerns in relation to the security of the Duchess of Sussex.