Spare Crumbs

Omid Scobie's new book Endgame regurgitates Prince Harry's and Meghan Markle's recollections

Hello Dear Readers!

The moment no one has been waiting for: Sussex biographer Omid Scobie’s new book Endgame was serialized in People Magazine this week. There is nothing in his excerpts and interviews that we didn’t already know or guessed from the many interviews and documentaries over the years. But I certainly have my thoughts on two of the half-arsed “revelations.” “Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival” isn’t just a book. It’s like the season finale of a reality show where the Royals forget, or more specifically, never knew, there were hidden cameras and muffled microphones all around them. Harry and Meghan’s Royal Exit (MEGXIT/SUSSEXIT) gets the Lifetime movie treatment. It’s like a Royal “Escape from Alcatraz” but with more tea and fewer sharks. Let’s dive into it.

Harry Windsor and the Ghosted Prince

“Prince Harry was famously close with his grandmother Queen Elizabeth. But in the monarch’s final hours, he was kept in the dark about her health.

With no further information from other family members or Palace aides, the Sussexes and their team had to operate in the dark. Harry was informed that William had already secured a flight with his uncles Andrew and Edward (and Edward’s wife, Sophie), but he couldn’t get in touch with anyone about joining that flight. “It was upsetting to witness,” said a source close to the Sussexes. “[Harry] was completely by himself on this.”

Picture the scene: Prince Harry, once the Queen’s BFF, is on the royal block list. Harry and much loved, granddaughter-in-law Meghan, were kept in the dark about Granny’s declining health; despite him and much loved, granddaughter-in-law Meghan, (who was also a BFF), being in the UK at the time. Scobie suggests the royals basically ghosted Harry who flew solo to Scotland. His family hit him with the Royal version of “New phone, who dis?” And his brother seemingly left him on ‘read’. The book also alleges that Harry was forced to travel alone and leave the innocent, loving Meghan behind.

Charles had cited “protocol,” but the reality was that Kate chose to stay back to pick up the children from their first day at a new school. “They just didn’t want Meghan there,” said a former Palace aide. Meghan, a friend added, “could sense she wasn’t wanted.”

You see, this was a calculated move to exclude innocent, loving Meghan from the history books, contrasting with callous Princess of Wales’s nefarious absence, being due to her children’s first day at school.

The problem with this line of thinking is it completely eschews common sense. If Prince Harry was so famously “close” with the Queen, why did she not confide in him the news of her declining health. Leaving her allegedly favorite grandson (who she loved more than anyone else) in the dark doesn’t seem like something someone would do, does it? Why did he not ask her how she was doing in the times they spoke, which according to Harry was often? Surely she would never keep anything like that from her surrogate son grandson? And if they were so famously close, why did he not put forth the effort to see her in the last years of her life? The excerpt goes on to say: