{"id":181916,"date":"2023-11-27T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=181916"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:08:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:08:14","slug":"omid-scobies-new-book-is-branded-vicious-and-poisonous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/omid-scobies-new-book-is-branded-vicious-and-poisonous\/","title":{"rendered":"Omid Scobie&apos;s new book is branded &apos;vicious&apos; and &apos;poisonous&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Omid Scobie&#8217;s new book Endgame is branded &#8216;vicious&#8217; and &#8216;poisonous&#8217; as he claims Charles, Camilla and William conspired to undermine Harry and Meghan and depicts royals as pantomime-style villains<\/h1>\n<p>A new book on the royals was branded \u2018vicious\u2019 and \u2018plain nasty\u2019 last night.<\/p>\n<p>While Buckingham Palace kept a contemptuous silence, well-placed sources described wild claims that Charles, Camilla and William conspired to undermine Harry and Meghan as \u2018depressingly poisonous\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Omid Scobie\u2019s book also takes aim at the Princess of Wales, branding her \u2018cold\u2019 and lambasting her for backing mental health causes while \u2018ignoring Meghan\u2019s cries for help\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It tries to stoke a row over the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh\u2019s jokey bid to deflect questions about the Sussexes\u2019 bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview by saying: \u2018Oprah who?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He says this made Edward and Sophie seem \u2018casually bigoted\u2019. Endgame, which was published in Australia yesterday and hits shelves here today, paints an almost comically negative view of the monarchy, with royals depicted as pantomime-style villains.<\/p>\n<p>Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace have declined to comment, believing they have nothing to gain from engaging with the claims. Charles and William were both instead out on public engagements close to their hearts \u2013 the King hosting a global investment summit and his son attending the Tusk Conservation Awards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/22\/78298547-12797675-image-a-29_1701124327970.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Royal sources described wild claims that Charles, Camilla and William conspired to undermine Harry and Meghan as \u2018depressingly poisonous\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/22\/78272977-0-Omid_Scobie-a-16_1701123642597.jpg\" height=\"497\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/22\/78272961-0-Omid_Scobie_s_new_book_Endgame-a-17_1701123642608.jpg\" height=\"497\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Omid Scobie&#8217;s new book Endgame about the Royal Family is set to be released on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>Those in royal circles describe the book as \u2018plain nasty\u2019, \u2018vicious\u2019 and a \u2018skewed\u2019 retelling of family events \u2018in the Sussex style\u2019. Endgame claims:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles\u2019s \u2018ineptitude\u2019 in handling Harry and Meghan \u2013 and refusal to give them the apology they demanded \u2013 has turned them into \u2018disruptors\u2019;<\/li>\n<li>Harry tried to \u2018reach out\u2019 to his father after the publication of his vitriolic memoir, Spare, earlier this year by calling his father, but felt the King\u2019s response was \u2018cold and brief\u2019;<\/li>\n<li>Senior royals turned a blind eye to aides leaking details about the Sussexes as part of their power games and subjected them to \u2018institutional cruelty\u2019;<\/li>\n<li>William and his father are at loggerheads about the future of the monarchy and the handling of family issues;<\/li>\n<li>Their \u2018distrust and simmering animosity\u2019 resulted in Charles deriving \u2018schadenfreude\u2019 from his son\u2019s supposedly disastrous tour of Caribbean last year;<\/li>\n<li>William is \u2018colder\u2019 \u2013 but also inexplicably more \u2018hot-headed\u2019 \u2013 than his father and \u2018has no problem taking prisoners on the way\u2019;<\/li>\n<li>Camilla colluded in stories being leaked about other royals and has \u2018no relationship\u2019 with Harry. The book says she has \u2018great sympathy\u2019 for what Meghan went through but \u2018no respect\u2019 for the way the Sussexes handled themselves;<\/li>\n<li>The King was so indecisive about how to treat his beleaguered brother Andrew that William had to step in to insist he lose his privileges;<\/li>\n<li>Charles \u2018stumbled\u2019 through his first 100 days as King and Queen Elizabeth had so little faith in him she made a former spymaster her \u2018CEO\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite Scobie\u2019s claims to be independent from the Sussexes, they are the only ones spared his sharp words, rumours and tittle-tattle. He claims senior royals were jealous of Harry and Meghan\u2019s success and undermined them.<\/p>\n<p>Meghan suffered because she was too dynamic, he says, \u2018insufficiently reverential\u2019 as a woman of colour working in an \u2018entitled, exceedingly white space\u2019 and reminded the royals of Princess Diana.<\/p>\n<p>As a result he says palace aides refused to defend her against the negative stories that had begun to emerge about her, while being happy to take action against a publication that suggested Kate had undergone \u2018baby Botox\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast Queen Elizabeth liked the fact that \u2018Katie Keen\u2019 \u2013 a moniker said to have originated on social media \u2013 was \u2018coachable\u2019 as a future royal.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Scobie claims her lack of patronages, engagements and insistence on spending time with her three young children in the school holidays makes her technically a \u2018part-time working royal\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Scobie says the statement following Harry and Meghan\u2019s Oprah interview that \u2018recollections may vary\u2019 was deliberately drafted to \u2018plants seeds of doubt in people\u2019s minds\u2019 about their claims.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/22\/78272997-12797675-William_Harry_Meghan_and_Charles_speak_together_at_Westminster_A-a-30_1701124357272.jpg\" height=\"474\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>William, Harry, Meghan and Charles speak together at Westminster Abbey in March 2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/22\/78278787-0-image-a-18_1701123918441.jpg\" height=\"615\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wiliam, meanwhile, displays \u2018indifference\u2019, \u2018harshness\u2019 and continues to \u2018stonewall\u2019 Harry when all his brother wants is \u2018honest conversations and accountability\u2019. William\u2019s attempts to promote racial harmony are branded \u2018opportunistic\u2019 giving his refusal to talk to Harry about \u2018unconscious bias\u2019 in his own family.<\/p>\n<p>The book says Charles and Meghan discussed the issue in an exchange of letters \u2013 in which she named two people she claims expressed concerned about her son Archie\u2019s skin colour \u2013 but William has failed to respond to the King\u2019s requests for him to talk about it with Harry too.<\/p>\n<p>While aides had expected the book to be a \u2018hatchet job\u2019 based on Scobie\u2019s previously flattering tome about the Sussexes, Finding Freedom, it has still upset many.<\/p>\n<p>One source said that while much of it is a \u2018rehash\u2019 of well-known events from a \u2018decidedly Sussex skew\u2019, the almost pantomime nature of the protagonists calls much of what Scobie claims into question.<\/p>\n<p>Another said there was a \u2018fairytale\u2019 air to the book. \u2018It just shows how little he actually knows. It\u2019s quite embarrassing really,\u2019 they remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The book does however contain some insights over the letters exchanged by Charles and Meghan and on the Sussexes\u2019 daily family routine.<\/p>\n<h3>Latest on Omid Scobie&#8217;s Endgame release<\/h3>\n<p>Omie Scobie takes aim at &#8216;cold&#8217; Kate in first bombshells<\/p>\n<p>Omie Scobie claims he knows identity of royals who &#8216;commented on Archie&#8217;s skin colour&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Omid Scobie accuses Prince Edward and Sophie of &#8216;a royal screw up&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Camilla has &#8216;no relationship with Prince Harry&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>King Charles was &#8216;cold and brief&#8217; in &#8216;awkward&#8217; phone call with Prince Harry\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York Times gives withering verdict on Omid Scobie&#8217;s &#8216;Endgame&#8217; in one of first reviews<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12797675\/omid-scobie-endgame-criticised-royal-family-depicted-villains.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omid Scobie&#8217;s new book Endgame is branded &#8216;vicious&#8217; 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