Doria Ragland, Meghan Markle’s mother, has helped an FBI investigation involving her former husband, Thomas Markle Sr, by telling authorities that he might be the man in photographs found in a Californian storage unit.

Ragland, 70, offered a possible identification rather than a definitive one. Her statement concerned the identity of the man pictured; it does not, by itself, establish criminal wrongdoing.

The nature of the photographs and the outcome of the investigation remain unclear. There is no response from Thomas Markle in the available account, nor any information about charges or findings against him.