Harry and Meghan’s cheerleader Omid Scobie announces new book Endgame

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s cheerleader Omid Scobie today announced he will release a new book on the monarchy on November 21. 

The author’s previous title, Finding Freedom, covered the Duke and Duchess of Sussexes’ decision to step down as senior royals.

Revealing the publication date today, Scobie said his new book would be a ‘penetrating investigation’ into the future of the Royal Family.  

He tweeted: ‘Endgame, a penetrating investigation into the future of the Royal Family, will be released globally on November 21, 2023. 

‘Can’t wait for you all to read this.’

Omid Scobie announced the release of Endgame last year but revealed the publication date today

Scobie (pictured in London in June this year) rose to prominence after writing Founding Freedom, a laudatory biography about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Announcing the book last year, he said Endgame would ‘pull back the curtain on an institution in turmoil—exposing the chaos, family dysfunction, distrust and draconian practices threatening its very future’. 

According to a statement released by the publisher: ‘On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing.

‘Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family, and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British monarchy begin to resurface. 

‘Now, with unique insight, deep access and exclusive revelations, journalist Omid Scobie pulls back the curtain on an institution in turmoil—exposing the chaos, family dysfunction, distrust and draconian practices threatening its very future. 

‘This is the monarchy’s endgame. Do they have what it takes to save it?’

Mr Scobie, who is the royal editor of US website Harper’s Bazaar, has been a firm cheerleader for Harry and Meghan over recent years, having co-authored a highly sympathetic biography of the couple in 2020.

He is one of the closest journalists to Harry and Meghan since their move to America. 

Scobie says his new book Endgame (pictured) will ‘pull back the curtain on an institution in turmoil’

 It comes at a difficult time for Harry and Meghan, with Spotify announcing earlier this month that it was dropping the Duchess’s podcast, Archetypes. 

Meanwhile, Netflix is reportedly planning to can their deal with the couple when it expires in 2025 – after rejecting several of their ideas for shows.

In a bid to revive their flagging fortunes, Harry and Meghan are developing a Netflix show called ‘Bad Manners’, based on a feminist version of Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations – according to the Wall Street Journal.

Meanwhile, a YouTube star has threatened legal action against the couple after accusing them of ‘defaming’ and ‘slandering’ her in their bombshell Netflix documentary. 

Shallon Lester, from California, came out guns blazing against the Sussexes in a new video posted to her account on Tuesday, in which she railed against Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, for allegedly ‘mischaracterizing’ her in the six-part Netflix series.

Back in December, Lester branded Harry & Megan ‘a festival of bulls**t’ after a clip from her YouTube account was shown in their documentary, implying that she was part of a coordinated trolling campaign against the couple.

The outspoken influencer has now hinted that she may pursue legal action against them – noting in her video that her ‘lawyer is going to be mad’ at her for mentioning it – and is vowing to ‘nail their a** to the wall’ over the allegations.

‘Believe me when I say I’m pursuing every opportunity to nail their a** to the wall for this,’ she raged in the video. ‘It’s defamation, it’s slander, it’s mischaracterization. And you know what else it is? Misinformation.’