That question was about her family and her history, having parents from two different worlds. According to Andrew Morton, author of 2018 book ‘Meghan: A Hollywood Princess’, having an African-American mother from LA and a white father from Pennsylvania “added to the confusion”. Meghan has made history as the first biracial American to marry into the Royal Family and is considered by many to be bringing The Firm into the 21st Century.

However, she has been known to look back at her past and wonder about her ancestors.

Mr Morton said: “For years, she was troubled by a nagging question at the back of her mind.

“Where does my family come from? What is my history?

“For Rachel Meghan Markle, known as Bud and Flower by her family, it was an endlessly perplexing issue.”

He added: “She felt she had to find her place where she belonged, in both the black and white world.” 

The Duchess of Sussex even told L Magazine in 2015 that she had a “longing to know where I [had] come from”.

Through her mother’s side, Meghan is descended from slaves so there are not many records of her ancestors.

She told L Magazine she believes one ancestor chose the surname Wisdom when he was freed from slavery.

However, her first documented Ragland ancestor was born in Jonesborough in 1830, a man called Richard Ragland.

He spent much of his live in slavery but his son Steven, born in 1848, lived to see the emancipation in 1865.

After the American Civil War, he became a sharecropper and as the years went by her family members made a life for themselves.

Meanwhile, through her father Thomas Markle, Meghan in fact has links to the Royal Family of Scotland.

According to Mr Morton: “It is possible to trace a direct line through 25 generations to Robert I of Scotland, perhaps the most colourful of all Scottish Kings.”

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