It was the “what” heard around the world. When Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, together with her husband Prince Harry, revealed in last week’s headline-making television interview that a member of Britain’s royal family had expressed concern about how dark the skin tone of their first child would be, Oprah Winfrey helped give an event interview the signature moment history will deem it deserved. “What?” asked Oprah. “Who is having that conversation with you?” That initial “what” is near perfect, a wide-eyed piece of punctuation that created a moment for the shocked audience to comprehend what they’d just heard. Oprah – a member of the so-famous-a-surname-is-surplus club – understood that speeding up the Wild World of Windsor narrative, to claw for revelations, was the wrong approach. Instead she slowed it down. The “what” made viewers reflect, before the follow-up “who” set them off again.