Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s relationship with the Royal Family is at “rock-bottom”, a royal commentator has claimed. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not join senior members of the Royal Family for Christmas in the UK.
The couple instead chose to celebrate the festive period in the US, where they have been based for the last three years. Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams pointed to the release of Omid Scobie’s book Endgame as a hammer blow to the couple’s relationship with the monarchy. Fitzwilliams said: “Endgame clearly illustrates how utterly irresponsible the Sussexes are. “The Sussexes are totally untrustworthy in my view. “They are best staying away in Montecito.”
He added regarding their relationship with the royals: “Frankly, it is at rock bottom.” The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have distanced themselves from Scobie’s explosive royal book and have stressed no one in their camp has leaked to the journalist. Endgame was published on November 28 2023 and contained a plethora of scathing attacks on senior members of the Royal Family. The royal author claims that he does not speak to the Sussexes but has sources close to the couple.
Scobie previously co-wrote Finding Freedom, a biography of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s time in the Royal Family. In 2021, the Duchess of Sussex apologised in court for failing to remember authorising a senior aide to brief Scobie and his co-author Carolyn Durand when they were working on Finding Freedom. Meghan submitted a statement saying she could not remember emails she had sent to her press secretary, Jason Knauf, about the unauthorized book.
The Duchess’s statement said: “I accept that Mr Knauf did provide some information to the authors for the book and that he did so with my knowledge, for a meeting that he planned for with the authors in his capacity as communications secretary. “The extent of the information he shared is unknown to me. “When I approved the passage … I did not have the benefit of seeing these emails and I apologize to the court for the fact that I had not remembered these exchanges at the time. “I had absolutely no wish or intention to mislead the defendant or the court.”
