Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were likely aware that their friends and sources close to them were speaking to Omid Scobie ahead of the publication of Endgame, as it seems “hard to believe” they weren’t, according to royal experts.
Guests on last Friday’s True Royalty TV’s The Royal Beat discussed the ongoing controversy surrounding the book, which gives a damning verdict on many senior members of the Royal Family.
Although the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have not confirmed any relationship with Mr Scobie and the author has denied he is “pals” with Meghan, she was previously forced to admit there had been a degree of collaboration with him for his 2020 book Finding Freedom.
Commenting on Endgame, the Sunday Times royal editor Roya Nikkhah said: “By his own admission in the prologue, [Omid Scobie] talks about the fact that obviously you’d expect him as a journalist and a writer to speak to people close to Harry and Meghan, and he says he’s spoken to people close to Harry and Meghan.
“Harry and Meghan do like to control the information that goes out, it’s hard to believe you’d be getting information from very close friends of theirs without them knowing.”
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Former royal press secretary Ailsa Anderson explained how the Royal Family may have felt nervous about the book’s contents, even though much of the backlash has been made against the author himself.
She told the Royal Beat: “It’s the fear of the unknown…you don’t know what he is going to say in it if he hasn’t given any indication about what he was going to write, or which avenues he was going to go down.
“And also, it comes at a time when we have COP in Dubai when the King wants to make a statement about something really important and this [book] is looming on the horizon, like a fog taking away the sunshine.
