A body language expert has suggested Meghan Markle was in the room for her mother Doria Ragland’s interview for the former Royal’s Netflix documentary series with Prince Harry.
Body language expert Jesús Enrique Rosas analysed Doria’s appearance in the six-part docu-series, which dropped its second instalment on the streaming platform earlier this week.
In a recent YouTube video, Jesús dissected body signs on whether Meghan was in the room during Doria’s interview with the Netflix cameras and her general demeanour through the retelling.
He noted her initial nerves, as Jesús said it appeared Doria was ‘rehearsing’ her responses at the beginning of her interview.
He said: “She looks upwards and begins vocalising some words, we can’t possibly know what she was saying at that moment – maybe she was humming or singing a song to pacify herself? That would mean she was a little bit nervous.
“The gesture I wanted to point out was when she looked to her left – which she doesn't do at any other point, and she smiles. So maybe Meghan was right next to her?
“The only other two signals are a subtle lip pressure at the start and the look of being a bit concerned at the end.”
Doria told the Netflix producers the previous five years had been ‘challenging’ as she detailed witnessing her daughter’s ordeal, as she continued: “I’m ready to have my voice heard, that’s for sure. A little bit of my experience, you know, as her mom. Yeah.”
The body language expert suggested in response to the snippet of the series: “It’s worth noticing that these clips [of Doria] are heavily edited because the gesture and the posture are not the same where one ends and the other one begins. So we have to take that into account.
“This moment we have several signals of her being nervous; notice that she tries to fit herself in the seat, she has a couple of signal shoulder shrugs, her left should go up [and down].
“When she says ‘a little bit of my experience, you know, as her mom’ she looked to one side, the left in the same direction ‘as her mom’ referring to Meghan. It was highly likely Meghan was standing beside the camera and lighting.
“Another signal of her being nervous is when she repeats ‘you know, as her mom’. Well, we already know she’s her [Meghan’s] mom, it’s odd but could just be nervousness.
“These signals of nervousness, it’s important to take them into account, because if someone’s nervous, that’s a filter we have to use when we watch the following clips.”
Doria was asked about her recollections from when Meghan first started dating Prince Harry, to which Jesús said Doria had an ‘attitude of defensiveness’ with her head and chin backwards.
He added: “This is a simple question and notice how she looks to her left, it’s way to her left, not like we’ve seen before.
“This is to her left, left, so her memory bank, so she’s actually remembering the moment when Meghan told her she was dating Harry.”
Jesús noted: “It’s important to make the analysis in chronological order, you can assume at the start of the interview Doria would’ve been more nervous, and as the interview progressed she was more relaxed and talk at ease.”
