Omid Scobie’s new explosive book, Endgame, has been receiving damning reviews since its release today with one branding it a “pro-Sussex propaganda”.
According to the synopsis, Endgame is a self-proclaimed “investigation” into the current state of the British monarchy, comprising “an unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to dangerous lengths to preserve her image, and a prince forced to start a new life after being betrayed by his own family.”
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have distanced themselves from the explosive book and said they are not “affiliated” with it – but they are known to have helped Scobie with the publication of his first royal book, Finding Freedom.
Newspapers have given a dismal view of the book, with The Telegraph giving it just two stars out of five.
Arts and entertainment editor, Anita Singh, blasted the novel saying “the reporter’s much-trailed study of the Royal Family is laughably partial, devoid of insight and bizarrely misogynistic”.
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She added Scobie’s latest effort is “a hit job that reads like a Mumsnet post about the world’s worst in-laws”.
Singh also slammed the author saying that even though he claims he’s not Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s “mouthpiece” his book says otherwise.
Meanwhile, The Times branded Endgame “not so much an incisive look at why he thinks the monarchy is doomed, more a mishmash of ancient history.”
Even The pro-Sussex New York Times gave a scathing review and said Endgame “reads like a press release cooked up by ChatGPT”, adding it does them “no favours” and does “little to shed light on them as humans”.
Radio and podcast producer Eva Wolchover claimed much of the book is focused on “setting the record straight” for the Sussexes, while she branded Scobie’s predictions as a “tad hyperbolic”, adding tht the book brings nothing new to the table compared to Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare.
She said: “Readers hoping for a final death blow of gossip will be disappointed. We’ve heard much of it before.
“These days, warts-and-all tell-alls seem to be as integral to the Windsor brand as weddings, jubilees and blockbuster funerals.”
Elsewhere, The Independent gave it three out of five stars and claimed Scobie “paints Meghan and Harry in a relentless saintly light”.
Writer Anna Pasternak added that he is “unfailingly sympathetic to the Sussexes”.
She said: “He does not hold them accountable for anything – he does not, as I had anticipated, demonise Charles or denounce Camilla.
“I was expecting something different – him possibly laying into evil monarch King Charles and wicked stepmother, Queen Camilla. The real royal villain here is William.”
