He’s at it again: new book by Meghan’s mouthpiece attacks ‘unpopular King and power-hungry Wills’
OMID SCOBIE, the unofficial mouthpiece for Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex, has made an astonishing attack on the Royal Family in promotional material for his new book, branding Prince William ‘power-hungry’ and King Charles ‘unpopular’.
Scobie, 42, revealed the cover of Endgame last week, with the publisher’s blurb calling it ‘a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy – an unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to dangerous lengths to preserve her image and a prince forced to start a new life after being betrayed by his own family’.
A source told The Mail on Sunday: ‘I’ve been told this is bad, very bad. It is unlikely that Royal aides will comment, but if there are charges of racism they will, of course, be robustly rebutted.’
The Duke and Duchess famously told US TV host Oprah Winfrey in 2021 that when Meghan announced her pregnancy an unnamed Royal asked how dark their son Archie’s skin was likely to be.
The Sussexes repeatedly denied co-operating with Scobie on Finding Freedom, the 2020 bestseller he wrote with co-author Carolyn Durand about the Royal couple, but Meghan was later forced to admit in the High Court she authorised an aide to brief the pair secretly.
Endgame, published on November 28, is likely to cause further disquiet at Buckingham Palace.
It is unknown whether the Sussexes had any input this time, although the author boasts that he interviewed family members.
The book, subtitled ‘Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival’, is billed as an ‘explosive’ look into events surrounding the late Queen’s death. The blurb, which can now be read on Amazon’s listing for the book, states that this ‘ruptured the already fractured foundations of the House of Windsor – and dismantled the protective shield around it’.
Scobie claims to have interviewed ‘current and former Palace staff, trusted friends of the Royals and... family members themselves’.
The Mail on Sunday has learned that the book will be serialised in a US magazine, but not in the UK.
A US publishing source said: ‘The word is this is going to have bombshell after bombshell. Some are even speculating it may name the person who questioned what colour Archie’s skin would be. Everyone knows Omid is the Sussexes’ unofficial mouthpiece, so it’s fair to say there will be a huge deal of interest in this on both sides of the Atlantic.’
Chapter headings include: ‘Shaky Ground: The Queen is Dead, the Monarchy Faces Trouble’, ‘The Fall of Prince Andrew: Scandal, Shame and Silencing Jane Doe’, ‘Race and the Royals: Institutional Bigotry and Denial’, and ‘Gloves Off: Prince Harry, Man on a Mission’.
Publisher HarperCollins has said it will ‘have the world talking’, and Scobie has warned it will reveal moments the Royals should be ‘ashamed of’. In Finding Freedom, he wrote in detail about the first night Meghan, 42, and Harry, 39, spent together and recounted seemingly verbatim discussions between the Sussexes and senior Royals.
This week, he took a dig at the King and Queen for walking on a red carpet laid out for them over bare ground in Kenya last week.
Writing on X, formerly Twitter, he said: ‘Even if this was a choice made by the hosts (and it probably was), the optics of the King and Queen walking on a red carpet to avoid soil at Nairobi National Park are pretty
‘There will be a huge deal of interest in this’
‘Charges of racism will be robustly rebutted’
ridiculous and out of touch. A cluedup Palace aide could have easily asked for it to be removed.’
But Kenyan journalist Joseph Wakhungu replied: ‘That’s just how all visiting heads of state... are treated when they land in Kenya.’
Responding to a fan on social media who wrote of Endgame, ‘I hope it goes further and deeper than Finding Freedom’, Scobie responded: ‘They’re worlds apart.’
Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace declined to comment last night.