Scobie’s royal blunders

THE Duchess of Sussex’s biographer and cheerleader Omid Scobie does not appear to be a details man.

The Finding Freedom author has provoked a flood of complaints after making a string of factual errors on American television.

Talking about the arrangements for the Queen’s coffin, he suggested that Scotland was not part of the United Kingdom and that there was a fleet of royal trains.

The Queen, the ‘royal expert’ loftily told viewers, ‘will end up laying at rest at the smallest palace in Edinburgh before [ the coffin] makes its journey on one of the royal trains over to the UK’. In fact, there’s only one royal train.

Scobie later described his UK comment as a ‘slip of the tongue’.