Who Is The Royal Racist? Piers Morgan Allegedly Just Spilled The Beans
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His new biography was just pulled from shelves for a misprint, and everyone is wondering who is the Royal racist that questioned Meghan Markle and Prince Harry over the potential color of their son Archie’s skin.
In their explosive 2020 interview with Oprah, Meghan and Harry claimed that, while she was pregnant with Archie, various royal family members expressed “concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he is born.” Meghan continued, “There are several conversations, potentially and what that would mean or look like.” When Oprah pressed Meghan to reveal the names of the royal family members who had these concerns, the Duchess of Sussex declined. “I think that would be very damaging to them,” Meghan said. Harry added: “That conversation, I am never going to share. At the time it was awkward, I was a bit shocked.”
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Buckingham Palace said the claims were “concerning” and that “recollections may vary” but they would address the claims privately and to this day, we’ve never known the identity of the royal who would ask such a question. The moment is discussed in biographer Omid Scobie’s new book ENDGAME: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival, its author had previously said that libel laws prevented him from naming the senior figure of The Firm. Now, Scobie’s book has been swiftly pulled from the shelves, and everyone is wondering who the royal racist is.
Who are the Royal racists?
According to controversial TV host Piers Morgan, the names of the two royals are King Charles III and Princess Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William, Harry’s older brother. “I’m going to cut through all this crap,” he said during an episode of his show Piers Morgan Uncensored. “I’m going to tell you the names of the two senior royals who are named in that Dutch version because if, frankly, Dutch people wandering into a bookshop can pick it up and see these names, then you, British people who actually pay for the British royal family—you’re entitled to know too.”
He continued: “Then we can have a debate about his whole farrago because I don’t believe any racist comments were ever made by any of the royal family and until there is actual evidence of those comments being made, I will never believe it. But now we can start the process to find out if they ever got uttered, what the context was and whether there was any racial intent at all. … The Royals who are named in this book are King Charles and Catherine, Princess of Wales.” Of course, StyleCaster nor other members of the media can independently confirm whether this is true.
The royals’ identity was accidentally revealed in Dutch copies of the book but Xander Publishers confirmed to Page Six that it received a request to abruptly halt sales on the biography and a statement on the publisher’s website confirmed the book would be rereleased during the first week of December.
“The corrected edition of Endgame by Omid Scobie will be available in bookstores on Friday, December 8. Xander Uitgevers was forced to temporarily withdraw the book from the market because an error had occurred in the Dutch edition.”
A spokesperson for the publishing house told the Daily Mail said: “I can’t talk about the details. We have, however, received a request to put the title on hold and that is what we have done. We have, however, received a request to put the title on hold, and that is what we have done,” the rep continued. “We are awaiting further instructions. I do not know how long this will be.”
An early copy sent to Dutch journalists did include the person’s identity and members of the media who did view the book told Page Six it does match previous claims released by royal biographies from last year.
The published passage reads, “Even after Meghan and Charles by letter discussed about probable unconscious bias within the family after it was revealed that [redacted] took part in such conversations about Archie, [redacted] has avoided discussing the subject with [redacted].”
How has Kate Middleton and Buckingham Palace reacted?
Like so many other royal scandals, Kate Middleton nor Buckingham Palace have made any official statements. According to The Telegraph, though, a source said: “We are considering all options,” including legal action, against Piers Morgan, who revealed the names of the royals who allegedly questioned the color of Archie’s skin while Meghan Markle was pregnant.
What was Omid Scobie’s reaction to the leak?
Omid Scobie has since had to defend himself amid a flurry of chaos, insisting that he did not name the royal in question and blamed a “translation error” for the misprint. “The book is in several languages, and unfortunately, I do not speak Dutch. But if there are translation errors, I’m sure the publishers will have it under control,’ he told Dutch chat show RTL Boulevard.
“I wrote and edited the English version. There’s never been no version that I’ve produced that has names in it.” Referring to letters written between Meghan and the King discussing the issue, it reads: ‘But in those private letters [the identity] was confirmed: ….’ [the Mail has redacted the name concerned]” per the Daily Mail.
On November 29, the day after the first scandal broke, reports surfaced that a second royal was named in the Dutch translation of the book. Dutch royal journalist Rick Evers, who has read the translated version, said on ITV’s Good Morning Britain that the first name was “very specific”, while the second one was “a little bit vague”, per The Independent.
Evers said he doubted Scobie’s “translation error” defense, saying: “I can’t believe that it was a translation error,” he explained. “We saw some passages were missing in the English version. Like five sentences between the first and third part that wasn’t in the English version. So something has been erased during the work that has been done for the book.” He added that the names were in Scobie’s original manuscript but “legal agents” advised against them being included in the final copy.
In the book, Scobie wrote that he did know the identity of the Royals who made such comments about the color of Archie’s skin but “laws in the United Kingdom prevent me from reporting who they were”.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the author said: “I hope that people understand that despite press coverage, this is not a book about Harry and Meghan. This is not Finding Freedom part two. It’s a really important look at the current state of the British royal family written in a way I don’t think anyone has ever done before at a time when I think is more important than ever. And I hope that rather than trying to ignore or reject this kind of dialogue that it’s embraced because I think that ultimately it always leads to better things.”
He continued: “Britain is changing at a rate the royal family could never understand because it is a slow moving institution, and it is not a reactive institution. It puts them in a very different time to what they’ve known in the past, but they are confronting the issues that are raised in front of them, such as the race issues, slavery in the past, the relationship with the press, the darker things that go on behind the scenes with the treatment of family members. These things that can all be addressed and improved on and worked on moving forwards.”
Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival
Endgame
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Endgame, the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, is a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy—an unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to dangerous lengths to preserve her image, and a prince forced to start a new life after being betrayed by his own family.”
Queen Elizabeth II’s death ruptured the already-fractured foundations of the House of Windsor—and dismantled the protective shield around it. With an institution long plagued by antiquated ideas around race, class and money, the monarchy and those who prop it up are now exposed and at odds with a rapidly modernizing world. Relying on his vast experience as a royal reporter and over a decade of conversations and interviews with current and former Palace staff, trusted friends of the royals and even the family members themselves, Scobie pulls back the curtain on an institution in turmoil to show what the monarchy must change in order to survive.
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