Meghan Markle posted a pair of Instagram videos from her Montecito home on Thursday showing off her chicken coop and a fleeting appearance from Princess Lilibet, just hours after King Charles was filmed feeding hens during a visit to a community project in New York. The brief clips, shared on the Duchess of Sussex's personal account, immediately prompted fresh comparisons between Markle and the king's well-documented love of rural life.
The timing of the videos raised eyebrows because of the royal backdrop. Earlier in the day, King Charles had toured Harlem Grown, a community organisation in Upper Manhattan that converts derelict plots into urban farms, where he was pictured gently tossing feed to a flock of chickens alongside local schoolchildren. The images, distributed across news and social media, were widely picked up before Meghan's almost synchronised poultry content landed on her stories.
