Omid Scobie would like to make one thing very clear. The British journalist turned author is not, and never has been, good friends with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
As the shockwaves from his book about the royal family, Endgame, reverberate around the world, and he cops flak for some of the negative things he’s written, in particular about the King and the Prince and Princess of Wales, he wants to point out that the book is his take on the royals based on 13 years of writing about them and information from the many contacts he has made in that time.
Meghan and her husband Prince Harry didn’t collaborate with him on the book, and he isn’t their unofficial spokesperson, he’s at pains to point out.
“I know nobody is going to believe me when I say that we’re not best mates,” sighs Omid, whose previous book focused on Meghan and Harry’s decision to leave their senior royal roles. “I could do without being known as the Sussexes’
