This image provided by Harpo Productions shows Prince Harry, left, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in conversation with Oprah Winfrey. "Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special" airs March 7, 2021. Britain’s royal family and television have a complicated relationship. The medium has helped define the modern monarchy: The 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was Britain’s first mass TV spectacle. Since then, rare interviews have given a glimpse behind palace curtains at the all-too-human family within. (Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions via AP, File)
The funniest thing to me about the Harry and Meghan interview last night was the self-congratulatory “rescue” of the chickens in their back yard. I realize I am just a poor sharecropper’s son from the sticks, but I always figured chickens were for EATING, and have always marveled ( and delighted) at their many gastronomic applications. It never occurred to me that they were sentient beings, worthy of being rescued. I mean, I might feel a smidgetly tinge of guilt about roasting up Foghorn Leghorn or the Widow Hen, but they are CARTOONS!
Does anybody really think that H and M flew to one of Frank Perdue’s chicken farms and screamed “STOP!!!” right before the hatchet was to befall on the Widow Hen’s neck? “We must SAVE this cute lil chicken!”