The original draft of this email was sent to Style section columnists Margaret Sullivan and Monica Hesse at the Washington Post after they respectively gushed over Oprah’s interview with the “oppressed” and “silenced” ex-Royals, Meghan and Harry.
Ladies,
Your apparent sympathy for All-American self-dealer Meghan Markle speaks volumes about your woke gullibility [“Oprah Proved She Is Greatest Celebrity Interviewer of All Time” and “Meghan Markle and Her Majesty’s Human Resources Department,” C1, Mar. 9]. Because more sensible observers see her manipulative relationship to the Windsors as that of Yoko’s to the Beatles, only this time around it’s hapless Prince Harry, not John, playing the “Fool on a Hill.”
In any case, Oprah’s interview just started the clock on Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes. So the ex-Royals best enjoy their fleeting time in the spotlight best they can before the public grows weary of crybaby multimillionaires and, like a metaphorical Mark David Chapman, suddenly ends their fairy tale of victimhood, spun from the verdant gardens of a California mansion. Fallen futures as spokesmodels for Jenny Craig and the HairClub will be all that’s left for them.
Your favorite filthy commoner,
Darren McKinney
Washington, D.C.