2023-12-04 00:17:17
DOMINIC LIPINSKI / AFP Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Prince William, Prince of Wales are at the heart of the book “End of Reign”.
DOMINIC LIPINSKI / AFP
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Prince William, Prince of Wales are at the heart of the book “End of Reign”.
ROYALTY – The royal family’s end-of-year celebrations may have a bit of a bitter flavor this year. Charles III, Camilla, William and Kate will have to deal with a new unwelcome “guest”: the book End of Reign. Where the British monarchy is going: the latest scandals revealed. Released across the Channel on Tuesday November 28, and in France Friday December 1, the new investigation by journalist Omid Scobie should shake them up.
The very day of its release, the book was already at the heart of a controversy. The Dutch version released on the morning of November 28 included important information: the names of the two members of the royal family who, when Meghan Markle was pregnant with Archie, would have raised questions about the skin color of the future. child. The book was immediately removed from the shelves for re-release. These names, although kept secret for years, journalist Piers Morgan hastened to reveal them on air and on his social networks.
In response, a source at Buckingham told AFP: “We are considering all options”. According to the Daily Telegraph, the palace is considering legal action. Omid Scobie assured that he never submitted a manuscript on which these names appeared.
The objective of this book as he clarified during an interview with the British channel ITV is indeed not about pointing fingers. For him, End of reign intended to ” generate conversations about the purpose, legitimacy and future of the royal family today. If certain topics discussed make some people uncomfortable, the fact remains that these are discussions that we must have » .
A book against the clan of “William”
In the table of contents of this book which will be published by Seuil this Friday, December 1, we discover an inventory of current relations between the different members of the royal family. And the author is clear: for him, reconciliation between Prince Harry and the rest of the family is completely impossible.
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As our colleagues at Vanity fair US, he returns to numerous episodes which have marred the royal family in recent years, and specifically those concerning Harry and Meghan since the death of Elizabeth II. Starting with the circumstances in which Charles and Diana’s youngest son learned of his grandmother’s death: namely, on the BBC.
Omid Scobie largely targets Prince William, current Prince of Wales and future king, whom he describes as power-hungry and intransigent. Which is not to the taste of the British press. THE Telegraph for example, does not hesitate to describe the work as “pro-Sussex propaganda”.
His investigation, enriched by numerous interviews with employees of the royal family, also highlights the links that exist between the Crown and the media in a vast communications enterprise. THE New York Times further explains that in his work aimed at questioning the very existence of the royal family and its foundations, the author “takes no prisoners”.
New revelations about the royal family?
The New York Times specifies, however, that the majority of the “revelations” announced on the back cover are not in reality earth-shattering. In his first book Harry and Meghan, freeOmid Scobie had in fact already largely swept away the few gray areas still hovering over the royal family.
Prince Harry himself had done much of the remaining work with his autobiography The Substitutereleased in January 2023, and the Netflix documentary series Harry et Meghan. Finally, the Netflix series The Crown has also not hesitated since 2016 to get to the heart of the matter, under the cover of fiction certainly, but without taking gloves.
Time bomb, or collection of anecdotes enough to make Charles III grind his teeth, End of reign completes a dull year for Buckingham.
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