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King Charles’ Next Crisis

IT IS A STORY OF PETTY RIVAL-ries, scurrilous gossip and clashing egos. Yet the author of the latest book to delve into the soap opera of the British royal family insists he has a serious point to make.

King Charles III’s monarchy is being dragged down by “selfish agendas” that have blocked Prince William from supporting his father, Omid Scobie tells Newsweek—a development that he says is putting the entire institution at risk.

Scobie’s new book Endgame, published on November 28, reignited public interest in the transatlantic feud between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and the wider royal family, with revelations including an account of how there were two people involved in the now-infamous conversation about her baby’s skin tone.

Elsewhere, King Charles is quoted describing Harry as “that fool” to aides

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