King Charles and Kate Middleton were named as the two royals alleged to have made remarks about the skin colour of Prince Archie in a Dutch translation of Omid Scobie’s new book, Endgame.
The controversial royal author has insisted the names mentioned in the Dutch books are a “translation error”.
However, Buckingham Palace is thought to be consulting senior advisers over the next week on the Royal Family’s next step, with “all options”, including legal action, set to be considered.
One leading royal expert, Richard Fitzwilliams, has repeatedly called on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to speak out on the row.
The Sussexes’ silence is the elephant in the room, according to Mr Fitzwilliams, who took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to question the California-based couple.
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He tweeted that the silence from the couple is “totally unsatisfactory”.
Mr Fitzwilliams added: The ‘mouthpiece’ of the Sussexes causes a sensation as names are leaked. They are still silent. Hypocrisy surely?
“When will we hear from the Sussexes?”
The royal expert continued: “The grotesque Scobie ‘error’ has become a bizarre farce which will have damaging consequences for the RF (Royal Family).
“They have won legal cases before.
“Anything they do gives oxygen to this poison, to do nothing means it sticks.
“The Sussexes are silent. This speaks too. Courtiers are often portrayed as faceless.
“I feel deep sympathy for them faced with the duplicitous Sussexes, the dissembling Omid Scobie & and a world rapacious for royal news.”
Sources close to the Duchess of Sussex, who allegedly wrote down the names of the two family members in letters to King Charles, have insisted that she “never intended for them to be publicly identified” according to the Telegraph.
They added that the letters were “not leaked to Mr Scobie by anyone in her camp”.
One source close to the Royal Family told the Telegraph that the couple had to speak out.
They said: “For the couple that talked about ‘death by a thousand no comments’, the silence at this point is deafening.”
