"This is the one time where I feel like the reporting is written without fear or favor," says author Omid Scobie. As a journalist who's spent over a dozen years covering the royal family, Scobie has had a first-row seat for some of the biggest moments in the modern British monarchy, from the marriage of Prince William and Catherine to the notorious 2020 Megxit of "spare" Prince Harry and Meghan, through the death of Elizabeth II and the reign of the new king, Charles. And now with his new book "Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival," he says, that he was determined to "shine a light in the darkest places, even if that meant burning my bridges along the way."
The book has already made headline news in the U.K., where Scobie's backstage insights into the famous family's feuds and power plays has seemingly ruffled royal feathers. But "Endgame" isn't a celebrity gossip tell-all — it's a thoughtful assessment of the tumultuous present state and questionable future of what Scobie reminds us remains, at its heart, "a publicly funded institution" deeply entwined in the lives of millions of individuals around the world.
