Is this it? Seriously? Omid Scobie’s Endgame promises to show us the dark side of the royals, to sacrifice the insider status which you can only get “by continuing to ignore the ongoing constitutional corruption in the Palace’s inner sanctum”. “In the past I, like others, have held back on revealing some of the darker truths at the heart of the institution of the British monarchy,” he writes. “Part of this book will burn my bridges for good. But to tell the full story, there’s no holding back. Not anymore. We’re in the endgame.” The one thing all this does reveal is that poor Omid can’t write for nuts.
But now he’s letting loose, what do we find? That Charles has his shoelaces ironed and his toothpaste dispensed by the inch from a silver crested squeezer. That William can’t be doing with his brother, that Kate and Meghan were told to channel Diana’s style, that William sometimes sets himself at odds with his father and has a bad temper. Oh and that Meghan absolutely didn’t use the word “racist” when it came to those unfortunate queries about what her baby would look like; she just didn’t like the “tone”.
