Omid Scobie publishes book “Endgame”: This is Harry and Meghan’s confidante

A new tell-all book about the British Royal Family is once again making headlines. On November 28th, “Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival”, another work written by Omid Scobie, who is considered a close confidant of Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan, will be released.

The British journalist was already on everyone’s lips in 2020 when he published “Finding Freedom”, a book about the Sussexes and their resignation from the royal family. He became one of the most discussed royal correspondents and Harry and Meghan’s favorite journalist.

Omid Scobie worked as a royal expert for Us Weekly

Omid Scobie was born in Wales in 1981 to a Scottish father and a Persian mother. He grew up in Oxford, where he also went to school. After graduating, he studied journalism at the London College of Communications. After briefly writing for the British tabloid magazine Heat, Scobie became head of the European bureau at the US entertainment magazine Us Weekly. There he began reporting more and more frequently on the British royal family in 2011, thereby laying the foundation for his later career as a royal expert.

He then worked as a royal editor-in-chief at Harper’s Bazaar and as a royal expert at ABC News, even appearing regularly on Good Morning America. In 2021, he told British magazine that the royals were “big business” in the US.

That’s why his focus is on Harry and Meghan

Over the years, Scobie’s reporting increasingly focused on Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan. He first met Meghan in 2015 at the Toronto Fashion Week when she found success as an actress in the series “Suits.” A year later, the relationship between Meghan and Harry began – this story and that The couple’s growing fan base fascinated Scobie. He also felt connected to Meghan through her fight against racism, as his mother comes from Iran.

Scobie was one of only three journalists allowed to attend Meghan’s final day as a working member of the Royal Family. In spring 2020 he met her at Buckingham Palace. He wrote about the emotional encounter in “Harper’s Bazaar” at the time. He hugged Meghan goodbye.

However, in a recent conversation with her, he made it clear that he was not friends with Meghan. Before the release of his new book “Endgame” he also wrote on But Scobie acknowledged that they have mutual friends: “That definitely helps in getting information and providing details.”

This is what Omid Scobie’s book “Endgame” is about

In 2020, Scobie co-authored the book “Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of A Modern Royal Family” with his colleague, American journalist Carolyn Durand. The hardcover edition of the book sold more than 31,000 copies in the UK in just five days. The content was written down on paper by a third-party source with Meghan’s support.

Among other things, the relationship and marriage of Meghan and Harry were discussed, but also “Megxit” and the scandalous interview with Oprah Winfrey. Scobie lost credibility when he cheated on his age during an interview with The Times in 2020. He is 32 years old, he says on the occasion of the publication of his first book. It later turned out that he was actually already 38 years old. “That was unfortunate and naive of me. You live and learn,” .

In Scobie’s new book “Endgame”, in addition to Harry and Meghan, the supposed power struggle between King Charles III is also said. and Prince William play a role. The marriage of Prince William and Princess Kate will also be discussed. In addition, the relationship between Charles and his disgraced brother Prince Andrew will be shed light on. Charles in particular isn’t supposed to come off particularly well. Duchess Meghan herself is said to have not provided any information for Scobie’s book this time.