Prince William is ‘hot headed company man’ and Charles ‘does not have vision to be King’, claims book by Meghan’s ‘pal’
A BOMBSHELL book written by Prince Harry and wife Meghan’s “favourite reporter” was last night blasted as a hatchet job on the Royal Family.
Endgame, by Omid Scobie, attempts to portray a rift between King Charles and eldest son Prince William by claiming they are on a “collision course to become rivals”.
The book — to be released on Tuesday — also quotes an unnamed source who reportedly says heir to the throne William views his dad as a “transitional monarch”.
Scobie describes the pair as having “clashing approaches and opinions”.
One extract states: “Their views, their outlooks, are very different, and I can see that becoming an issue over the years ahead.”
It claims Charles is a lavish spender who makes “gobsmacking” demands — and smears Princess of Wales Kate as “pliable”.
Dai Davies, the former head of royal protection for the Met Police, said: “This is clearly a hatchet job. I don’t know the relationship between father and son but they have always seemed close to me.
“I wouldn’t trust a word this Scobie says — and where he gets his sources from is debatable.
“People like this know it’s very rare for the royals to comment and we’ve had enough from Harry’s camp for a lifetime. This is just another publicity-seeking stunt.
“This sounds like an attempt to drive a wedge between the King and William.”
Royal expert Ingrid Seward said Scobie’s new book Endgame “weaves a narrative that King Charles and eldest son William are increasingly at odds.”
Scobie co-wrote Finding Freedom, the sympathetic bestseller about Harry and Meghan, and has been dubbed the couple’s “cheerleader-in-chief” but denies this.
In an interview with The Sunday Times magazine this weekend, Scobie repeated his scathing attack on The Firm.
He said last night: “It would take a lot to dismantle the British Royal Family. But could William be the last king as we know it? Absolutely.
“The book isn’t hammering the final nail in the coffin. It’s just a reality check.”
Scobie also claimed William had been behind briefings to the Press that brother Harry was “mentally fragile”.
It had looked like the relationship between the Sussexes and Charles was thawing when it emerged they spoke to him on his 75th birthday and played a video of grandkids Archie, four, and two-year-old Lilibet singing Happy Birthday.
And it was claimed that Harry and Meghan made it clear they would accept an invitation to Sandringham for Christmas.
But the leaked version of the book, which is being serialised in a French magazine, blasts Charles.
It accuses him of being pampered and alleges the late Queen would repeatedly complain about his “extravagantly luxurious lifestyle”.
It reports a rumour that Charles has a servant squeeze his toothpaste — but The Sun on Sunday understands that the King just needed help during a short period after breaking an arm in a polo accident.
Scobie writes that when Charles had to produce a urine sample his advisor Michael Fawcett held the cup.
And damagingly, it alleges Buckingham Palace aides said before the Queen’s death that Charles did not have “the moxie or the vision to be king”.
Scobie attacks the monarchy more broadly too, describing it as an “anachronistic, intolerant organisation steeped in bigotry and privilege”.
William is said to be a hot-headed “company man” and “an heir increasingly comfortable with the Palace’s dirty tricks and the courtiers who dream them up”.
Meanwhile in one section describing Kate, Scobie writes: “Unlike strong-minded Diana who, saddled with a cruel and taxing marriage, proved to be a woman unwilling to fully submit to the royal cause, so far Kate has been a much more teachable, pliable future Queen.”
And he hints that the future Queen is hypocritical for advocating on mental health causes while supposedly ignoring Meghan’s “cries for help” while she was a working member of the family.
There are claims that Scobie was heavily briefed to by the Sussex camp.
But he insisted last month on X, formerly known as Twitter: “It’s not ‘Harry and Meghan’s book’, I’m not ‘Meg’s pal’, the Sussexes have nothing to do with it.”
Scobie reportedly first met Meghan at Toronto Fashion Week in 2015, before she was dating Harry — at least not publicly.
He said for this reason he did not realise the significance of the encounter.
He later wrote a now famous account of the Sussexes’ final engagement as working royals in 2020 when Meghan gave him “a big farewell hug” beneath the “malachite candelabras” at Buckingham Palace. He was one of only three journalists invited.
And, despite claims of independence, Meghan was forced to admit in 2021 in High Court evidence that she and Harry cooperated with Finding Freedom, about the couple’s decision to leave the royal family.