The Dutch translation of Endgame, biographer Omid Scobie’s new book about the British royal family, is causing a scandal and has been rushed off the shelves of bookshops where it had already been installed.
The British royal family seems to have had a case of the heebie-jeebies. On 7 March 2021, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle revealed, during their explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey, that a member of the royal family had made racist remarks about the forthcoming birth of little Archie, now aged 4. At the time, the Sussexes refused to reveal his identity, insisting that it was a matter of “unconscious prejudice”. The information now seems to have leaked out.
Omid Scobie, the royal biographer close to Meghan Markle, is publishing a new book called Endgame, in which he looks back at the episode. “I know who made the comments about Archie’s skin colour,” he recently boasted on US TV show Good Morning. But the biographer chose not to reveal the name. It would, however, have appeared in black and white in the Dutch translation of the book.
Meghan Markle: these letters exchanged with King Charles III
Our colleagues in The Sun, who report on the very surprising translation accident, do not specify which member of the British royal family is mentioned in the Dutch version of the book. So the secret seems to remain complete. But how would Omid Scobie have obtained the precious information about the identity of the member of the royal family who was “worried” about the colour of Archie’s skin? “The names were mentioned in letters between Meghan and Charles that were exchanged some time after the Oprah interview,” he announced in his interview with US TV show Good Morning. “We have it on good authority that Charles was horrified to see how Meghan felt.”
While Prince Harry and Meghan Markle never wanted to give the name of the person who allegedly made the racist remarks, they were keen to make it clear that it was neither Queen Elizabeth II nor her husband Prince Philip. An important clarification for many British people.
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