King Charles, Princess Catherine named in new Omid Scobie book Endgame all a bit too convenient
Unlike her accusers, Princess Catherine has shown impeccable judgment and was always wary of Meghan Markle. The ‘accidental’ truth bomb speaks volumes of the Sussex camp.
It is all a bit too convenient isn’t it?
There are two royals Meghan Markle has accused of having “unconscious bias” in relation to the skin colour of Archie: King Charles and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, according to the Dutch version of Omid Scobie’s book “Endgame”.
Controversy continues to swirl around how the Dutch edition contained the two bombshell additional paragraphs that were not in the English version, and the book editor insisted all she did was translate “in black and white what was in front of her”.
Mr Scobie, who has mutual friends with Meghan, insists he only wrote the English version, where conveniently he heavily criticises Catherine as “Katie Keen” who was “cold” to Meghan.
Others may beg to differ. Catherine, who appeared on Thursday night at the Royal Variety performance ignoring journalists shouting questions about being named in the book, has shown impeccable judgement and like her husband was rightly wary of an American actress and the haste with which Harry was determined to get married.
And Charles? The man who walked Meghan down the aisle, who was so gracious and welcoming to the only family member Meghan had at the wedding, her mother, Doria?
Inexplicably, for we still dont know how it happened, the Dutch edition of the book refers to a letter Meghan wrote to Charles in 2021 about unconscious bias and says, in Dutch: “In those private letters an identity was confirmed: Charles”.
Later in the book — which has been withdrawn from sale and is being pulped, it says that Charles and Catherine participated in “such conversations about Archie”.
The claims of racism/unconscious bias in the Royal Family, levelled by Prince Harry and Meghan, have rumbled on for years.
It’s been the Sussexes chief gripe in their constant whingeing against the royal family, one which initially caused Oprah Winfrey to nearly fall off her chair with incredulity.
Meghan’s “truth bomb” back in 2021, was that a member of the Royal family had referred to Meghan’s then unborn child with “concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born”.
Remember Meghan’s remark when she declined to name the royal involved — at that point it was only one — saying it “would be very damaging to them” to do so.
At the time it was all very confusing because Harry, who was interviewed separately, seemed to indicate this had all happened well before Meghan was pregnant and his version was different to Meghan’s.
But the lasting impression from them was that the family they had breathlessly escaped from, and who had left them almost penniless after being cut off from Charles’ largesse, was so crass as to not want to welcome a baby by a mixed-race mother.
Given the wholehearted embrace of Meghan by the British public at her extravagant 2018 Windsor Castle wedding and the excitement in the country about the new royal baby, this appears highly unlikely.
For nearly two years the Sussexes had plenty of opportunities, but didn’t correct any of the worldwide headlines about their racist accusations.
It was only in January this year when Harry released his book “Spare” that we learned they never made racist claims — that was the fiction of the British press apparently — but rather it was an issue of “unconscious bias”.
And now we learn that it wasn’t one royal, but two, and that the names have emerged because of a letter Meghan wrote to Charles immediately after delivering the thunderbolts to Winfrey.
Meghan loves a letter doesn’t she?
She penned a “meticulously worded “missive to “Daddy” after Thomas Markle’s heart attack and no-show at her royal wedding, carefully wording it to “pull at the heartstrings” with the understanding it could be leaked.
Her communications secretary Jason Knauf said under oath to a court that Meghan “asked me to review the text of the letter, saying ‘obviously everything I have drafted is with the understanding that it could be leaked.’”
But oh dear, Meghan forgot she had briefed Mr Knauf to give Mr Scobie and his co-author various briefing notes with her knowledge for his earlier book, “Finding Freedom”.
For that she had to apologise to the court for not remembering the exchanges, having earlier sworn in testimony she had not cooperated in any way with the authors.
It also emerged in email correspondence Harry was desperate to be not seen as helping with information for the book.
Yet Meghan won that case which centred around the expectation of privacy of a private letter.
Now that these accusations have been raised against Charles and Catherine, they could, but probably won’t, use the judicial system to discover how Mr Scobie obtained access to such a confidential letter. I am sure they have their suspicions.
They will refuse to give any oxygen to the revelations. But as for Meghan?