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Is that this? Really? Omid Scobie’s Endgame promises to show us the dark side of the royal family, sacrificing the insightful prestige that can be achieved by “proceeding to forget about the constitutional corruption that takes place in the inner sanctum of the Palace. “”In others, I have been reluctant to reveal some of the darker truths at the heart of the establishment of the British monarchy,” he writes. “Part of this e-book is going to cut my ties forever. But truth be told, there’s No Brake. No more. We’re at the end of the game. What all this shows is that the deficient Omid does not know how to write for a madman.
But now that it’s in an uproar, what do we find? Let Charles iron his shoelaces and dispense his toothpaste across the square centimeter using a silver-crested juicer. That’s what William can’t do with his brother, that’s what Kate and Meghan have been asked to do. adopt Diana’s style, which William disagrees with his father and has a short temper. Oh, and that Meghan surely didn’t use the word “racist” when it came to those unfortunate questions about her baby’s appearance; She just didn’t like the “tone. “
On a scale of royal revelations where Princess Diana’s to Andrew Morton’s were 10, that would give a 1. 5. Or maybe a 2, as in Prince Andrew’s question, Charles “who weeps for fear of the sanity of the embarrassed duke” and it’s the difficult kind-hearted William who sought to be put out in the cold. Except some time later, we’re informed that they’re in fact “mating” (a word he likes) to Andy. We also found that Harry is very disappointed to get a uniform without the proper epaulettes for the Queen’s funeral.
And the title? Endgame is based on the concept of the royal family fearing for the future of the monarchy, now that the queen is gone. “It’s a fear we talk about normally. ” I’m still not a real watcher. Maybe I told you for free.
The substance is old. So, does Kate “cringe” at the mention of Meghan?Scobie also repeats the Times’ revelations about Charles’ donations of money to charities and doesn’t add anything that was learned in the classes.
For a royal correspondent, he is weirdly uninformed about the basics
For a real correspondent, he’s strangely misinformed about the basics. So, he makes the same old mistake of giving someone a first name in addition to a first and last name, whereas, if he had ever worked at the Londoner’s Journal, he would know. that this is only done with the sons of dukes and marquises. He tells us that Carlos “anointed” the head of the CofE; No, he anointed him king; the rite predates the Reformation. They’re just small things, but they make him look distressed.
We are told much, much more than we would like, about the strength Omid feels in the face of racism and the fact that members of the royal circle of relatives have never shown penance for the record of their predecessors on slavery, all the way up to Queen Anne. – nor have they joined the Black Lives. Yes, it would have gone extraordinarily well.
Plus someone hid the title of a painting called The Negro Page with a judicious palm when the Obamas came to visit. And he devotes pages and pages to poor old Lady Hussey asking where a black lady was from at that party. It gets us nowhere.
There’s actually a useful insight in this joke, about the Sussexes’ money scenario (he says it wasn’t reported through Meghan) and it’s as bad as you might have thought. Spotify abandoned them after signing them up; One executive called them “criminals. ” They don’t need to engage in fundraising. Meghan can simply post “anything more accessible, anything rooted in her love of detail, of conservation, of comfort, of the undeniable pleasures of life and family. ” But not being Gwyneth Paltrow, I’m not sure that will keep them in her favorite style.
If they were to sink, it would be convenient to know that Omid will be there to reconstruct his fall in immortal prose.
Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival, published via Harper Collins HQ (£22)
Melanie McDonagh is a columnist for the Evening Standard.