Storm over the royal family, “two racists”. The revelation of the book, which is later withdrawn

Members of the British Royal Family have a name that, according to Meghan, wondered what color her skin would be before Archie was born. The Sussexes never wanted to reveal them publicly. But now, apparently, these names have emerged, at least in the Netherlands, in the translation of ‘Endgame’ – the book by Omid Scobie, the ‘hidden spokesperson’ for ‘H&M’ (as the couple came to be called by staff). Inept Carlo, intolerant Camilla, ambitious William, insecure Kate…. The book is a blunt portrait of a dysfunctional royal family and a monarchy that, according to Scobie, is doomed to collapse.

Among the various anecdotes, there is also the interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which Meghan made the explosive accusation: the duchess, whose mother is black and whose father is white, told the American talk show guru that a member of the Royal family wondered, when she was pregnant, how dark her firstborn’s skin would be. The accusation had a bombshell effect on the Windsors’ already precarious internal balance. Winfrey said Harry told her he was not Prince Philip or his grandmother, Elizabeth II. Prince Charles, now on the throne, was quick to deny the rumors that attributed his unfortunate departure. William, addressing the matter directly with the journalists who accompanied him (a case that is more unique than rare, because the Windsors do not stop to speak to reporters…) assured that “the family is not racist at all”.

The name is missing from the original English version of Endgame, released yesterday in the UK. Scobie says that after the Oprah interview, Meghan wrote a letter to her father-in-law, Charles, saying she was concerned about unconscious bias in the royal family. And she revealed the identities of “two people” involved in the exchange. In the end, according to the Sunday Times, an agreement was reached that Harry and Meghan would no longer raise the subject, neither in the Netflix series nor in the prince’s autobiography. Now in the Netherlands, publisher Xander Publishers has confirmed that it has received a request from the United States to stop selling the biography. And here’s the truth in the book: Charles III, then Prince of Wales, and Kate Middleton were the two royals who made inappropriate comments about Harry and Meghan’s son Archie’s skin color. The news was revealed by Dutch journalist Rick Evers, who on his profile X published excerpts from the book without the supposed omissions, which disappeared in the original version of the volume.