Omid Scobie: ‘Harry wants a truce – he reached out to William – but the wall was completely up’

William is ‘comfortable with the Palace’s dirty tricks’, Meghan will be the next ‘Martha Stewart’, and no, he’s ’not her mouthpiece’. On the eve of the publication of his new book, ‘Endgame’, Julia Llewellyn Smith finds a defiant Omid Scobie has no regrets about causing more upset for the House of Windsor

They were once dubbed the ‘fab four’ but Omid Scobie’s new book exposes tensions that were always present and Prince Harry feels like his brother and the Princess of Wales never accepted Meghan into the family (Getty Images)

If there was ever any chance of the royal family being reunited around the Christmas tree at Sandringham this year, it’s been blown out of the water by Omid Scobie, the journalist frequently accused of being the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s “mouthpiece”.

His latest book, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival, has reportedly caused fresh havoc in royal ranks with claims Prince William “prioritised his loyalty to the monarchy over his brother”, actively leaking information about Meghan and Harry in order to undermine them. William’s “friends” have decried the claim as “outrageous”, but Scobie is sticking to his guns, insisting the Prince of Wales is “increasingly comfortable with the Palace’s dirty tricks and the courtiers who dream them up”.

Harry would like a truce, he adds, but William wants none of it. It is claimed that: “Even as recently as this year, Harry had a mutual friend reach out to his brother and see if there was space for a conversation, but the wall is completely up. It’s sad because Harry said they’d always promised each other they’d never let the petty squabbles and media briefings that tore their parents apart come in between the two of them, but ultimately that’s exactly what’s happened.”