Just like a desi susral, the Royal Family had to step in to look over some aspects of Meghan’s professional life.
According to the show creator Aaron Kosh, the royal family weighed in on some of the dialogues in the show and even omitted one.
“Not many things, by the way, but a few things that we wanted to do and couldn’t do, and it was a little irritating”, recalled Kosh.
The particular word that was scrubbed from the show was ‘poppy cock’ and the reason is astounding:
“My wife’s family, when they have a topic to discuss that might be sensitive, they use the word, ‘poppycock,’” Aaron explained. “Let’s say you wanted to do something that you knew your husband didn’t want to do, but you wanted to at least discuss it, and in just discussing it, you wouldn’t hold him to anything he said, you’d be like, ‘It’s poppycock.’ So, in the episode, Mike and Rachel were going to have a thing, and as a nod to my in-laws, we were going to have her say, ‘My family would say poppycock.’”
But Aaron explained the Royal Family didn’t want the future Duchess Of Sussex to say this, in fear of someone editing the clip and using the term ‘cock’ so they completely removed it.
“They didn’t want to put the word ‘poppycock’ in her mouth. I presume because they didn’t want people cutting things together of her saying ‘cock.’ So, we had to change it to ‘b*‘ instead of ‘poppycock,’ and I did not like it because I’d told my in-laws that [poppycock] was going to be in the show. There was maybe one or two more things, but I can’t remember.”
But here’s the shocking part: Aaron was not the one who gave his scripts to the Royals, and he doesn’t know who did either.
“I was aware that they were reading them because I got the feedback, but I don’t remember the process by which they got them.”
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