Omid Scobie has appeared to admit that he did write the names of the senior royals implicated in a race row in an early draft of his book Endgame.
Last month it emerged that a Dutch edition of the book was published with claims that the King and his daughter in-law, the Princess of Wales, had made remarks about Archie’s skin colour while Meghan Markle was pregnant. The translation of the book has since been pulled from the shelves.
