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.

repulsive?? why ? what a weird thin to say about him.

I am a Republican but wonder why it is that royal correspondents and journalists and broadcasters seem to be particularly gruesome individuals?

I imagine them all with spectacularly flash kitchens with bi-fold doors which are the fruits of their so-called labours… .

I’d like to hire a big boat and load Angela Levin, Penny Junor, Nicholas Witchell, Jonathan Dimbleby, Camilla Tominey, Omid Scobie, and that ghastly man with the awful ties (and his daughter) and push them all out to sea!

And let’s put Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson on board too for good measure!

I'm not into advance searching posters and what they've said before to be honest. I just think therein lies the way to madness!
So I apologise if I don't know how you feel about them.

Any book written about the Institution is welcomed by me.

Can we add Greg Wallace to the crew ( perhaps in the galley)? I know he’s not aRoyal Correspondent btw, he just seems to fit right in……

I imagine omid thought when writing the book that by August 2023 the Sussex’s would be riding high living their best lives and the RF would be in crisis. But it’s actually turned out to be the other way round!

it's definitely not mainstream gossip

Well ...when the likes of Angela Levin who is regularly interviewed on ITV breakfast show and This Morning, retweets or likes this kind of stuff, it does drag it mainstream somewhat

Any book written about the Institution is welcomed by me

Why do we need more books though? It's not going to tell us anything we don't already know or can't find out with a quick Google if we're interested?

What's the purpose of writing it other than for him to make money? It's like those millions of misery lit books, dull and repetitive, it not like he's got any new information we don't all know or exposing something revolutionary.

if you don't agree with the book, don't read it (I don't read any of these books)

Cherrymuffincake202

I imagine them all with spectacularly flash kitchens with bi-fold doors which are the fruits of their so-called labours…

Cor!
I've only just had an ordinary door put on one of the cupboards in my unspectacular kitchen.
Go on - what are the rest of the rooms like? <rubs thighs and pants a bit>

You can't mean that. Surely you can't.

You think the Institution is transparent? Nothing could be further from the truth. There are some great articles out there with people trying to understand and uncover what actually goes on.

I'd love to link them here but I'll be hijacking this thread somewhat

See my very long post on royal finances on another thread. (Royal report just released) It's never about what we know. It's about what we don't know. And surely you don't think we have to lie back and accept everything said about the RF by our largely sycophantic media?

Why can't I mean that? Of course the institution isn't transparent, has anyone said it is? But he has no more of an idea of what goes on than a bloke down pub so why does he need to write a book on the subject, he hasn't got anything new to say on the matter has hez hea just jumping on the bandwagon like the rest of them but pretending he's doing so impartially.

How can anyone?

That’s true Roussette - proper investigative journalism on the subject of finances, potential racism, obviously anything related to sexual impropriety, and on whether we want a monarchy at all are always welcome.

But with the press the way it is atm, we either get ridiculous speculative tittle tattle or utter obsequiousness and not much else in between.

Omid’s problem is he gets fed stuff by the Sussex’s but lacks the network / contacts to verify if any of it is true. That’s why he makes so many howling errors

The last book was a mix of score settling and rubbish and dreadful writing, and his articles have not improved in the mean time

I'd be interested in a well researched, well written book about the institution of monarchy and how it has evolved to its present day form. I'm not sure Omid Scobie, or indeed any of the royal reporters with the possible exception of Valentine Low, are the people to write that book. I mention Low because his book Courtiers has been mentioned several times here as taking a broader view.

None of the royal rota, including Scobie, seem capable of commenting objectively, they all pick sides and the ridiculous rumours told by both sides are I think demeaning to them as individuals and to their profession.

I'm currently reading Lucy Worsley's biography of Agatha Christie, maybe once she stops working for the royal palaces she could give it a go. Alternatively The Rest is History podcast did fascinating programmes on the coronation. In other words I think the subject needs historians not gossip peddlars.

Oh, is he still chirping away with his "insider" knowledge.

@Roussette i think on the balance of probabilities, it will reflect H and M’s views however time will tell !

@MrsLeonFarrell

I so agree.

I agree a historian is probably best placed to write a book that's worth reading, not least because historians usually like facts and see the value in evidence which supports their claims instead of idle gossip or third when information.

As it stands I suspect like the majority of others on this thread that this book will not offer an unbiased viewpoint and will be yet another one sided look giving no credible viewpoint on the subject it's professing to be discussing without bias.

Not sure I would read it, but it is interesting to see the responses to it. He's a royal reporter like all the others who have written books, theres been plenty of threads on the gossip contained in other books and posters who take that gossip as gospel and repeat it here all the time. I see this in the same way, only that very few royal reporters go against the royal family and the institution in this way. Its their job and they need a good enough relationship if they want to continue to write about them. Perhaps Omid won't be a royal reporter for much longer! Depending on the contents. Who knows, but to dismiss him because he is one of the only royal reporters not jumping on the anti harry and Meghan train is rather odd, to say the least. I think one of the things I have already read, from an article by him yesterday, regarding Kate going through an awful lot of press secretaries, I think it was 5? Within 6 years. It is weird this isn't reported on given the time and attention given to Harry and Meghan going through staff, as if it was out of the ordinary and somehow a mark against them. Its much discussed on this forum. Its another example of the higher standards set for Meghan in particular. I wonder why that could be.

The working title of the book was Lies, lies and more lies.

Yes, how can he have any credibility at all? He's wrong about everything, and tends to be proved wrong fairly quickly (although it took a few years for his claim that H and M wouldn't give their children titles to backfire). But the way HMLQ's body was to travel from Scotland to London? He must've just made that up, a complete guess, yet tweeted it anyway. Nobody is giving him information, so he obviously just makes it up.

His friend Marcus Anderson was just over with Meghan (photographed out hiking with Meghan when Harry was in London) so I’m sure they didn’t talk about the book 😜

Does anyone else remember when a bunch of royal reporters got tricked into commenting about the Oprah interview before it aired? Its weird theres such a focus on the board about Omid's 'lies', but the same scrutiny and criticisms aren't levelled at all the other reporters? Who are often quoted here as sources of facts or truth. A few of them are also friends with royals, remember they thanked Piers Morgan? Clarkson is a friend of Camilla's? Camilla's son works for the Mail on Sunday. Its just so odd that none of the anti M & H crowd have an issue with any of that.

I wonder how this book will be received. I was interested in Finding Freedom because I thought he was H&M’s spokesperson and had inside information. But now both have denied this and we’ve had Harry and Meghan speak their own words (and some of this contradicted Omid’s book) I’m not really interested in what he has to say any more.