Book by Omid Scobie causes a stir
This is how Harry and Meghan’s confidante ticks
Omid Scobie has a close connection with Harry and Meghan.
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Omid Scobie has been a confidant of Meghan and Harry for years. Now he’s causing a stir again with his new book about the Royals…
A new tell-all book about the British Royal Family is once again causing a stir. Tomorrow, Tuesday (November 28th), “Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival” will be published again, a biography written by Omid Scobie, who is a close confidante of Prince Harry (39) and Duchess Meghan (42) applies.
The British journalist was already on everyone’s lips in 2020 when he published “Finding Freedom”, a book about the Sussexes and their resignation from the royal family. He became one of the most discussed royal correspondents and Harry and Meghan’s favorite journalist.
From celebrity journalist to royal expert
Omid Scobie grew up in Oxford, where he went to school and then studied journalism at the London College of Communications. After briefly writing for a British celebrity magazine, Scobie became head of the European bureau at US entertainment magazine Us Weekly. There he began reporting more and more frequently on the British royal family in 2011, thereby laying the foundation for his later career as a royal expert.
He then worked as a royal editor-in-chief at Harper’s Bazaar and as a royal expert at ABC News, and even appeared regularly on Good Morning America. 2021 explained he told “Tatler” magazinethat the royals are “big business” in the US.
That’s why his focus is on Harry and Meghan
Over the years, Scobie’s reporting increasingly focused on Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan. He was quickly fascinated by her story and her growing fan base. He also felt connected to Meghan through her fight against racism, as his mother comes from Iran.
Scobie was also one of only three journalists who was allowed to take part in Meghan’s last day as a working royal in spring 2020. In “Harper’s Bazaar” he wrote about their emotional encounter at Buckingham Palace. He hugged Meghan goodbye.
In conversation with the “Sunday Times” However, he recently made it clear that he was not friends with Meghan, but that they had mutual friends: “And that definitely helps with getting information and revealing details.”
The first book by Omid Scobie
In 2020, Scobie co-authored the book “Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of A Modern Royal Family” with his colleague, American journalist Carolyn Duran. The book sold more than 31,000 copies in the UK in just five days. The content was written down on paper by a third-party source with Meghan’s support.
Among other things, the relationship and marriage of Meghan and Harry were discussed, but also “Megxit” and the scandalous Oprah interview.
This is what the tell-all book “Endgame” is about
In addition to Harry and Meghan, “Endgame” is also said to be about the supposed power struggle between King Charles III. (75) and Prince William (41), but also about William’s marriage to Kate (41). In addition, should according to “The Independent” The relationship between Charles and his disgraced brother Prince Andrew (63) will be the subject of the tell-all book. Charles in particular isn’t supposed to come off particularly well. However, Duchess Meghan did not interview Scobie for the book this time.