If 2023 started with an explosive book about the royal family—Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir, Spare, was released on January 10—then it will close with one, too, in the form of Omid Scobie’s latest, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival, out today. The book’s description calls it “a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy—an unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to dangerous lengths to preserve her image, and a prince forced to start a new life after being betrayed by his own family,” and says Scobie “pulls back the curtain on an institution in turmoil to show what the monarchy must change in order to survive.” It also asks the question, in the immediate aftermath of Queen Elizabeth’s 70-year reign, “This is the monarchy’s endgame. Do they have what it takes to save it?”
