Omid Scobie’s Endgame comes out in November. I honestly believe the book will be a huge story when it’s released, and it will land like a bomb inside the royal media. It will arguably be the first big, critical look at the problems facing the British monarchy post-Elizabeth, and Scobie pushed back the publication to add more stuff about what happened during and around the coronation. You can tell that the British media is scared as hell too – they think that they can smear Scobie in advance of the publication. From the way they’re ranting and raving, I would assume that at least one palace – if not multiple palaces – are running scared and briefing against Scobie. So, what’s new? Yesterday, Scobie gave us an Endgame chapter preview:
Just been told that #ENDGAME is officially at the printers! A little sneak peek for you all😄
I also hear Barnes & Noble rewards members get 25% off pre-orders until Sept 8 — and premium members get an extra 10% discount on top!
Check it out via @BNBuzz: https://t.co/9HPjohnWyl pic.twitter.com/ah2iew2Ajk
— Omid Scobie (@scobie) September 6, 2023
“The Ongoing Campaign to Make The Royals Great Again.” MRGA?? Please, the Windsors are totally a MAGA-like cult, full of delusions and lies. And the two last chapters on the list – “Gloves On: Prince William, Heir to the Throne” followed by “Gloves Off: Prince Harry, Man on a Mission.” Well, the royalists are IRKED! Victoria Ward at the Telegraph wrote a piece called “Omid Scobie sets sights on Prince William in new book.” Per the Telegraph:
One of the chapters is called, “Gloves On: Prince William, Heir to the Throne”. The decision to dedicate a whole chapter to the heir to the throne will cause consternation at Kensington Palace.
Mr Scobie’s focus on the Prince of Wales is unlikely to be favourable. He has positioned himself as one of the Sussexes’ biggest cheerleaders in recent years and it is well known that Prince Harry and his brother have not spoken for many months.
Pity she didn’t mention that Scobie himself said that William tried to have him banned from covering royal events because… Scobie treated the Sussexes fairly and he wasn’t down with William’s unhinged campaign against the Sussexes. Anyway, Scobie mocked Ward’s piece and I’m here for Spicy Scobie.
You can do better than this weird guess work, @victoria_ward. Other than the titles of nine (out of 16) chapters, I haven’t “revealed” anything. https://t.co/1Hj8hEniRM
— Omid Scobie (@scobie) September 6, 2023
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Scobie’s IG.
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- Omid Scobie, Royal well wishes mark what would have been the 60th birthday of Princess Diana. Prince William and Prince Harry unveiled a statue by Pip Morrison in honour of their late mother to commemorate the occasion. Kensington Palace, London. UK,Image: 619055995, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Michael Melia / Avalon
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- The Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Westminster Abbey.,Image: 774180249, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: Richard Pohle / Avalon
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- King Charles and Queen Camilla leave Westminster Abbey after his coronation. 6 May 2023,Image: 774204704, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jack Hill / Avalon
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla are joined by Prince William, Prince of Wales, Catherine, Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their Coronation in London, United Kingdom, on 06 May 2023.,Image: 774227092, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: Marc Aspland The Times/Sunday Times / Avalon
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- King Charles III leaves Westminster Abbey after his Coronation, London, United Kingdom, on 06 May 2023.,Image: 774228682, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: Dan Charity / Avalon
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- Britain’s King Charles III wearing the Imperial state Crown carrying the Sovereign’s Orb and Sceptre leaves Westminster Abbey after the Coronation Ceremonies in central London on May 6, 2023. – The set-piece coronation is the first in Britain in 70 years, and only the second in history to be televised. Charles will be the 40th reigning monarch to be crowned at the central London church since King William I in 1066. Outside the UK, he is also king of 14 other Commonwealth countries, including Australia, Canada and New Zealand.,Image: 774231888, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: BEN STANSALL / Avalon
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- Prince William, Prince of Wales, Catherine, Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their Coronation in London, United Kingdom, on 06 May 2023.,Image: 774233342, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: Ian Vogler / Avalon
Oooooooh!! Those chapter titles are SO GOOD!! Can’t wait for this!!
Any guesses on the names of the other 7 chapters? Serious guess, there has to be something about the next generation of kids, right? I wonder if he’s going to more specifically cover rose gardening and the super injunction, or the hypocrisy of Earthshot?
With the title of “Gloves On” for PW, I’d have to think that roses would at least be alluded to.
With the UK’s weird superinjunction thing, Scobie couldn’t talk about her directly in relation to PW without having issues selling the book in the UK. But he could talk about scandals indirectly and the fact that the media does its best to cover them up…. for *that* prince.
I hope Omid goes hard on the Windsors especially William. He knows he won’t get Spare numbers but he also knows a fluff book on the BRF won’t sell.
For all it’s flaws, FF was hugely successful; like Spare, initially published in multiple languages, etc. Right after Spare came out, Scobie congratulated Harry on Twitter and noted his book had taken over a milestone previously held by FF – but since I can’t read Twitter/X in chronological order w/o signing in, I don’t remember for sure what it was! Could have been something like, fastest one day sales, something like that…in any event, Scobie did very well with that book. He’s had some very pointed Yahoo columns this year. Fairly sure I’ve read somewhere he wants to move out of the area of royal commentary, perhaps this is the start of his farewell.
He is one of the good ones for sure. I do think you’re right about him being ready to move on from the royals. He’s not going to have any sort of access/sources in the palace after this, and he probably feels like he’s said all he has to say… especially considering that he delayed the release to add chapters.
Wishing Omid a long and successful career! He has shown that he can write and has integrity. Hopefully he will be able to pick and choose what to do next. He should be! He deserves all the best.
Hope this will be an audiobook so I can use an Audible credit for it!
It is, already pre-orderd 😉
If I pre-order, will he kick in a bonus chapter in his skin care regime? I’m very excited for both this book and the reaction to it [insert Angela Landsbury eating popcorn gif].
Go Omid! Go Omid! Go Omid!
Burn it all down. Expose all their filthy dealings!
As for this chapter “Gloves On: Prince William, Heir to the Throne”
I interpret that as how the RR have always been told to go easy on, protect or downright cover up William’s dirty laundry. While offering up Harry then Meghan as the sacrifice.
Yeah, I wonder if he’ll talk explicitly about the injunction that allegedly prevents the media from reporting on William, or the more informal “invisible contract”?
Can he even say there’s actually a super injunction? Feel like even that’s not allowed. But I think he will go into all the ways the palace has told the press that gloves must stay on when talking about William and how the press has willingly obliged.
@Jais I believe that’s the difference between a regular injunction and a super injunction – whether the press can even say there is something preventing them from talking about a topic. I agree with your take, although I’m sure there will be ways for people to read between the lines.
I’m absolutely preordering this book as soon as payday hits.
Isn’t the super injunction only relating to the affair and his claims his human rights would be violated if it was reported on?
Or does he have a super injunction (or any injunction) against reporting any negative information?
And isn’t it only for UK press (or maybe EU countries)? So couldn’t someone in another country report and publish whatever they want?
Also…what happens if someone reports the truth anyway, about his affairs or just negative information (or the thing he’s done that would make our stomachs turn if we knew, or potential crimes etc.)? Would they be arrested? Lose their press pass? Or just lose access to the royals? Does anyone know what the punishment would be?
It’s a bit shocking to me that not one foreign journalist or publisher is willing to publish what they know. And not just the vague hints people drop on Twitter or whatever.
@SussexWatcher, I have all of the same questions that you do, and find it incredibly frustrating that William has scared so many people into keeping quiet.
Ooh it sounds like Omid isn’t pulling any punches with his book or with his reply to tricky Vicky. Am looking forward to reading. The naming of his chapters are interesting let’s hope he spills the whole teapot.
I love his replies to the royal rats. He’s always so shady. It must burn them up inside that his book was so much more successful than probably all of theirs put together lol. And that’s without him even having to kiss royal ass.
@susanCollins, I REALLY hope he has spoken to Alex Tiffin, if you haven’t heard of him, just put Alex Tiffin on Prince William into Google, see how much an injunction meant to him lol. Maybe, with the title “gloves on William,” our Mr Scobie meant they were ON William to keep his delicate little fingers safe from all those thorns 😂😂
“The Ongoing Campaign to Make the Royals Great Again” is such a fantastic burn lmao. I suspect the comparison to you-know-who will offend them bigly.
They’re not going to like it at all 🤣 but I absolutely LOVE IT
😍 and I think this one is going to stick with them for a while 😍
That is easily my favorite!
I did an actual hand to mouth gasp at that one. I love it.
I went to pre-order for kindle yesterday but it was £1 more for the digital edition than the hardback which doesn’t make any sense to me. One way or another I’ll read it, Spare was my first ever royal book and this will be my second.
When your competition is so jealous they pre-smear your work…
#StayMadFlabby
I have to admit that the chapter titles are intriguing but I’ll just read the excerpts. Although Omid has been fair to Harry and Meghan, his interventions have not always been helpful and I wish he was more honest about the true nature of his relationship with them from the beginning.
+1 🙂
Amy Bee, how was Scobie dishonest? I either haven’t seen it that way or I don’t remember how he may have been dishonest about his relationship to H and M. This is confusing me. His takes are always spot on.
@Christina: He wasn’t forthright at the beginning when word of his first book came out. He let the press run with the narrative that he was writing his book in collaboration with Harry and Meghan when the truth was they didn’t want to have anything to do with the book and that it was KP and Jason Knauf in particular who endorsed the book and provided information. He made people believe that he was getting exclusives from Harry and Meghan when the reality he was not the only one who was provided with statements.
Thanks, Amy Bee. I don’t remember, but am glad that you do. Meghan did do what she was told, and Knauf had to assume that Scobie would tow the party line like the rest of the Rota. I can see Meghan not wanting to engage in that, and I’m glad she said so in writing.
Scobie has his own mind or he’d be like the others. It’s wonderful to have a mixed race reporter who can see the racism, but he is a royal reporter trying to sell books, so I can understand why he would not have gone out of his way to correct the perception that he was speaking directly to the Sussexes. A ton of people do that until they are called out.
When his book came out I repeatedly saw him deny that he had ever spoken to Harry or Meghan about his book.
Well, technically I don’t think omid spoke to them directly about his book but he was given emailed information from them via Jason Knauf. Which has always made me think that Jason Knauf played omid somehow. Meghan however was wary about sharing info with omid at that time.
@Amy Bee, it was more the publisher and the rest of the media trying to imply that M&H were involved. IMO, Omid was always honest about M&H having no direct involvement with FF.
What relationship? Jason encouraged the Sussexes to give him information on Meghan’s childhood and the white side of her family for his book. In the emails released Jason said it would be a good thing for them to clear certain things up and that’s exactly what happened. If that means the Sussexes are besties with Omid then that means every single “royal expert” who has ever written a book are besties with the entire royal family… some of them actually are.
@Ash: In those same emails, Meghan said that she didn’t want to work with Omid and that the information she provided was already given to Knauf when her relationship with Harry became public. She refused to give additional information.
She didn’t like that Omid spoke about her having a stylist when her wardrobe was the only thing she had a say in over since joining the family. She wanted to tell her friends not to talk to Omid and Knauf told her not to.
I^^ Please understand what was going on: After the royal wedding, every reporter and media outlet wanted a piece of the Sussexes. Everybody was clamoring to write a book. KP was inundated with media requests. Meanwhile, M&H simply wanted to settle into married life, start a family, and do their work within the institution. Thus, it wasn’t specifically Omid who Meg didn’t want to work with. They simply weren’t interested in having a book written about them.
It was KP & Knauf whose intent was to try and undermine and chip away at M&H by every means at their disposal. That was Knauf’s purpose behind pressuring M&H to agree to Omid & Durand writing a book. Bottom line, M&H still had nothing to do with the book. But Meg did allow her friends to speak with the writers, if they chose to do so.
FF should never have been brought into the court case. I think M&H were very upset about that. Ultimately, they realized that Omid was not involved in any of the deceptiveness by KP. I’m sure the Sussexes realize that Omid had purposely been given false information by Knauf. Thus, Omid was also undermined by palace operatives.
In the long run, KP/ Knauf and Mail Online shot themselves in the rear, and were shown up themselves, by bringing FF and the emails between Meghan & Knauf into the court deliberations.
One of Meghan’s final events in the UK in March 2020 was a gathering of students as part of her then patronage, the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Omid was one of just a few outside people invited to be there. Again, someone with access to Twitter should be able to find his post about it. FF was published a few months later, and would have been close to finished in March. As I recall he said the ACU event was very emotional, since she was leaving the UK very shortly. Hard to imagine him being invited to something like that if she was that uncomfortable with him; seems in retrospect more like a gesture to make up for something else. Maybe she got positive feedback about Omid from her friends he talked to. Or maybe she just had Knauf’s number by then and knew what KP had been doing to undermine her and Harry.
Omid is not playing. I’m excited for this book. I wonder if it’ll have an audio version at release cuz I could get into that.
Jais. He did say on his site when someone asked him about audio version and he said he was actually recording at the time the question was asked.
Woo-hoo. Thanks susan collins! Just saw ms. Cope asked the same above. Clearly craving some good audiobooks.
I am interested to see how this one turns one. Omid obviously still covers the royals but I think he both WANTS to be more critical of them and realizes that being critical of them can be lucrative. I mean it goes to the post earlier today about how younger people don’t like the monarchy as much. Omid is part of the age group (he’s 42) that is no longer quite as enamored with the royals and I think he’s writing for that age group.
Also as one of the few royal reporters who is a POC, he’s going to have a different perspective on everything that has happened both pre and post Sussexit.
It makes me crazy that more people don’t realize (or care enough?) that being critical of the RF is SO lucrative, and much more so than the same tiresome criticisms of the Sussexes.
I love how the presentation looks almost like a dinner menu – yummy!
Bon appetit!
Please talk about Rose. That will be fun. But oh noes! No chapter on Kate? What a snub to the future Kween.
He did say that this is only nine chapter titles out of sixteen.
So there’s hope for a whole chapter on coat dresses vs. pant suits? Wedges vs. Aquazzurra?
Chapter 10: Baby Brain: Princess Kate and the struggle for Easter presents
Kate’s dilemma: should I wear the blue coat dress, blue pants/sweater/jacket combo, or blue dress? With these blue shoes or these blue shoes? The blue Mulberry or the blue Smythson?
Heck, interviewing Kate’s wiglets would be a good three chapters right there. 😂
For some reason, I just don’t think he’s going to really go there. He doesn’t tend to go for unsubstantiated gossip (for the record, I think we all know it’s 100% true, but it’s not what the central problem with the monarchy is – they’ve been having affairs since the first King put a crown on himself and said, “God made me special and all these ribbons and shiny buttons prove it”). For someone so closely associated with gossip, his pieces are usually well-researched and substantial compared to all the RR, and I expect no less from this book. It’s his opportunity to make an impact, and I don’t think he’s wasting his shot with gossip about Rose (though it would be fun).
I agree. Let’s be honest, Rose is the least problematic part of Willnot.
I hope Omid goes hard on the arrested development. Wills is every research psychologist’s dream.
looking forward to the excerpts. the chapter titles have me intrigued for sure!
I guess the other royal reporters are just going to sit back and let Omid make all the cash on the fall of the house of Windsor. He’s got this!
The title page made me go from just interested to immediately pre-ordering!
Chapter 7 has them running scared! Look for many, many photo ops with POC.
It’s started already with The Other Brother’s surprise (must compete with my brother) work outing to make lattes. The photos in the other thread were quite noticeable.
Immediately after the Oprah interview, William came out with that awkward, unintelligible comment about being “a very not racist family'” well, if Omid cuts deeply enough, William will practically be speaking in tongues — “very much not”, to quote William.
The cover has gotta irk a few in the RF, with Meghan as the dominant focal point in bright red.
Gods I hope he’s referring to *cough* gardening gloves.
So what Telegraph, Ms. ward and other UK media are telling us is that being a royal biographer or speaking highly about a royal means that you are that royal’s cheerleader? So in affect Angela Levin is Camilla’s biggest cheerleader while she continues to lie and attack Harry and Meghan daily. Penny Junor and Rob Jobson are William’s biggest cheerleaders who have attacked Meghan with racist rhetoric and threats about dangling her child over a balcony. Camilla Tominey is Kate’s biggest cheerleader because she has spoken so highly about Kate and her mediocrity constantly, even going as far as to tell a racist trope of a lie for years to demonize Meghan. The list goes on for the biggest cheerleaders of the royal family, who all coincidentally have used very racist dogwhistle rhetoric when talking about Meghan or her children. The people we surround ourselves with says something about who we are. Omid speaking the truth, regardless of who the royal is, is far more upstanding than anyone who attacks a woman of color for speaking about her racists experiences and defending her children from rules, language and actions meant to take away her children’s birthrights and to dehumanize them because of their race.
Honestly, I think the truth is that Scobie had worked in entertainment journalism in the U.S. before he became a royal reporter. He was not widely known, but he knew someone within Meg’s inner circle. In 2017, not a lot of people were following M&H’s under-the-radar romance. I was following from Day 1 of Harry’s press release telling the BM to ‘back-off’ his girlfriend. So, I can recall a lot. I remember most of the chronology of events in those early pre-wedding and post-wedding years.
Scobie was introduced to us followers when his Tweets about matters pertaining to M&H began to go viral. His inside source made his Tweets more reliable. Others in the rota became envious, as he began to become more high profile as a RR. The difference with Scobie is that he’s smart, and he has integrity, in addition to being ambitious and savvy. He has experienced a hard learning curve as a RR, and he’s been navigating it well.
As far as FF, it was Carolyn Durand who approached Scobie to write a book about M&H. More about that I’ll mention separately. For now, I want to emphasize that Scobie is honest in saying he doesn’t know M&H intimately. They are not friends. He has surely had indirect contact with them through reps, for example, when he was given info post the 2019 Easter Sunday Massacre by The Times’ Tom Sykes. Scobie wrote a journalistic response in Harper’s Bazaar, with direct quotes from M&H, refuting some of the claims made by Sykes.
As well, Meg showed her belief in Scobie’s journalistic honesty when he was invited by her as one of only three reporters to cover her final working engagement at BP, in 2020, with a group of young leaders.
I never understood a lot of the vitriol directed at Scobie on Twitter because while he was fair to the Sussexes, he still covered the other royals’ engagements the same way the rest of the RR did, the way he always had.
It’s not his fault that his posts about Meghan and Harry always had the most engagement. And Sussex detractors completely ignored his coverage of the other royals and went into his H&M posts just to trash him for treating them fairly!
It showed so clearly how so many newly minted “W&K fans” were really just rabid Sussex haters. They truly ignored his coverage of their faves, and lived to trash anything he wrote about H&M.
@aftershocks – oops! Just wrote something similar up above along the lines of your last paragraph. Assume it will end up posted though hasn’t been cleared yet. Have to remember to read all the way down first! In any event, glad to see someone else remembers Scobie’s invite to that last event. It was with students from her ACU patronage. And my interpretation of his being invited was similar to yours.
I’m just hoping that scobie takes his revenge on the Wails in particular, for playing him for a fool when he was writing Finding Freedom and being fed cr@p by knauf on behlaf of Pegs.
Right @Kingston! That’s exactly what happened. 💯 Scobie was never involved in anything nefarious. He was setup by KP & Knauf. I don’t know whether Durand was also setup, or what her exact role was, since she supposedly had a lot of palace sources. I don’t tend to trust Durand. She stayed in the background so much in regard to FF. I also think she’s responsible for the poorly written parts of FF. That’s why I’m glad Scobie is going solo with his new book, Endgame.
“Baggage: the Lingering Trials of King Charles”!!!!! I almost did a spittake at “,baggage”!!!!! Omid Scobie, is a bad b now! Amazing!
That made me laugh too. So shady! I love it.
^^ 🤣😂 Omid Scobie has always been an honest, smart, bad b*$*$, but with integrity to boot! And he also possesses one of the most gorgeous speaking voices in the business.
What made the On Heir podcast great, was Omid’s integrity and his smooth, melodious voice. What made On Heir exceedingly annoying, was Emily Andrews’ scratchy, grating, clout-chasing, high-pitched, wannabe, snobby vocalizations. 🙉 I was so effin’ glad when Omid ditched the Andrews snitch, and moved on. His ABC podcast, with a nice but ditsy co-host, was okay for minute, especially when he hosted alone in certain episodes, but overall it didn’t wear well either.
Omid’s work with Yahoo has been very satisfying. If he can come up with another podcast or better yet, a video interview podcast which delves honestly into interesting royal and entertainment news, that would be so cool. 😎 I could listen to Omid’s voice all day. Same with Harry’s wonderfully deep, baritone vocal cords. 😊 🤭
Ooh, maybe Omid will voice the audio version of his new book! 🤞🗣
Scobie tweeted he was recording the narration for the book. (Audible doesn’t list the narrator yet.)
I love Scobie (his clap backs on Twitter are wonderful) and can’t wait for his book.
I’m preordering, too. Omid is the closest thing to an actual journalist among any of the reporters covering the royals.
Just pre ordered on Amazon US. Thanks celebitchy!