Omid Scobie writing tell all book

[CosmosQueen]

The biographer of the Duke and Duchess of Sussexwarned that his next book will reveal moments that the Royal family should be “ashamed of”.
Omid Scobie claimed he was one of few journalists writing about the Royal family whose work was impartial and “spin-free”
As such, he said his forthcoming book, provocatively titled Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival, would focus on the negative as much as the positive and would shine a light on “unsolved mysteries”
“Endgame not only looks at the successes of our Royal family but also the failures; the things to be proud of and those they should be ashamed of,” he wrote in the I newspaper

Just when will this end? I feel so sorry for their poor children who will have to live with the knowledge that their parents and his obnoxious individual were prepared to do anything to make money.

So why did Harry include it in his book ?

I don't understand. Are you saying H&M have provided pics to the Mirror and Daily Mail to generate all these negative articles?

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but maybe if Meghan had taken her time , accepted support from Sophie/ Camilla / whoever rather than “ hit the ground running” things MIGHT have been different.

See that? Enthusiasm for the task at hand are bad things. In any other field it would be considered a positive for someone to want to hit the ground running but not the RF.

She has definitely been quiet recently so thank goodness Backgrid were on hand to take photos of the family at an Independence Day event ! I wonder if they will sue the American tabloids for not pixalating the children faces ?

Goodness - why would she call the same people with whom she had a very public tiff? They may well be successful - they were successsful before in suing.

Perhaps not if they didn't know what they were doing. Perhaps the Queen was aware of the difficulties previous royal brides faced when marrying into the family. Perhaps she was aware that diving straight in, thinking she knew the ropes was perhaps not the best way of learning the job. Even people in business who 'hit the ground running', learn a few things first, don't think they know everything, take the time to get to know the other employees and how the business works, take a little advice from those with experience..

What they are saying is that there is no interest in H&M alone to allow for the paparazzi to be taking their pictures organically, therefore Meghan calls the paparazzi herself to generate the interest. Therefore any and all pictures you have of them will always because she herself has caused them.

Perhaps she was aware that diving straight in, thinking she knew the ropes was perhaps not the best way of learning the job.

But literally that's not what someone who says they are hitting the ground running means - they mean that they are ready, prepared and bringing their A game. When I interview people and ask them how they see their first weeks, months and then their 5 year plan - if someone says that they will hit the ground running ready to take on the challenge, I certainly don't walk away from them thinking that they said they already know everything there is to know and that they won't take on advice from people with organisational experiecene and memory - I walk away feeling that the person will be enthusiastic and be working hard to get up to speed. I do note however that culturally in the context of women entering the RF this concept of having agency and drive is really not a good fit.

People who 'hit the ground running ' are usually experts in the field they're entering though. Not the case here by the longest of long shots.

Re twitter, if you don't have an account you can still use it, search hashtags etc just not post or interact obviously. So that way you get more of a range of opinions,

I disagree, whatever your role or whatever your job, that just means you're willing and eager to get started. Wherever the start is. It's normally taken as a positive when someone starts work, no matter how much they have to learn. If someone were to say to me in an interview, I am going to take a very relaxed slow start to this, slowly slowly does it, I'll be relying on everyone else to guide me non-stop', then I do no think they would get the job!

I did see that a journalist called Shallon Lester is going to sue Meghan and harry for defamation following claims on the Netflix documentary that she was behind many of the negative social media articles on them. Bot Sentinal has already been discredited as has its founder over fake twitter accounts so it will be interesting to see what OS puts in his book re the so called fake articles.

It depends, if you were offered an induction like Meghan and was refused it, you’re a liability rather than an asset in many jobs.

if you refused induction/training in many jobs they’d rescind the offer.

maybe that’s why they wanted Meghan to stick to acting

I think that the phrase "hit the ground running" shows how little Meghan knew about the BRF.
I'd imagine that Hollywood assistants do things immediately but in the RF, there's protocols to be checked as well as cross referencing plans with what others (especially the more senior members) are doing so things happen at a snail's pace, especially if you're not the monarch.

I don't think they ever said "stick to acting", rather that they said if she wanted to continue acting, that would be possible.

The enthusiasm which lies behind "hit the ground running" is commendable, but unlikely to be positive if you haven't taken the time to understand the event you're running in. Also setting off too fast is, in running terms, a real pitfall in terms of managing to finish over long distances
(you may be able to tell that running is rather on my mind right now as I await the email with ballot result for the London marathon!)

What's happened with Bot Sentinal? I saw that the account has been suspended, after being discredited. Was it managed by Christopher Bouzy (sp?), because I think he's also been suspended. He was aggressively defensive of H and M, and wasn't he going to prove something, but then his proof was all manipulated and fake? Twitter really is nuts, you can't believe anything on there.

Bouzy was heralded as some sort of guru on here and was on H&M’s documentary

I’m guessing Omid will have to remove any references unless he wants to end up back in court

@SidekickSylvia I've not seen any recent updates on Christopher bouzy but I know Bot Sentinals assertions on the Netflix show were discredited by Twitter (who after all are the ones with real data on their platform and have no axe to grind) and also that CB had posted multiple tweets that were malicious to will and kate. So hardly a reliable or neutral witness on the Netflix offering. A lot of what was on there has been proven unreliable.

@Howsimplywonderful I think OS will be busy making a few amendments if a lot of his book is about H&M but if it's just a character assassination re the RF then it's just another pointless book headed for the dustbin of history

Thanks costacoughee, I didn't watch the Netflix show so don't know much about him, but he seems quite an unpleasant character.

I think you also need to consider the type of ground you are running on, what sort of shoes and equipment you need, and what the actual end result is likely to be considering fitness levels!

Hit the ground running was just another meaningless word salad in this context. How on earth would an American actress have a clue about the rigid dress/action/communication etc codes of the BRF? The most she could have run with was how to find a camera and smile at it. She couldn't even manage that with her infantile tongue poking and 'unusual' posing which was totally Hollywood and not boring and decorous royal. Even her clothing choice was not considered appropriate for a royal tour.

Sadly harry made no attempt to prepare her for royal life and she herself stated she wanted to be a rebel princess so clearly only wanted to hit the ground running to her own agenda.

Goodness how many greatest hits can you fit into a couple of paragraphs 🤣?

I really don't think there is a time limit on lies though. I don't just look at how a person is today - the past is relevant imo.

I don’t know how Harry could have prepared her because her life was one that was very alien to him at the time. If you’re brought up in a goldfish bowl and all the people you know are also in goldfish bowls, how do you teach a wildcat to be a goldfish? Or something like that.