Is the war of the Windsors about to blow up again?

The name ‘Omid Scobie’ must be one of the least popular ever uttered in Buckingham and St James Palaces. Not only was the royal reporter’s bestselling 2020 book Finding Freedom a firmly partisan account of Harry and Meghan’s quasi-abdication – and, it later transpired in court, assisted by someone close to the Duchess, so that her ‘true position…could be communicated to the authors to prevent any further misrepresentation’ – but now the man known, without affection, as ‘Meghan’s mouthpiece’ has returned with another certain-to-be-controversial book.

Entitled Endgame – probably not a reference to the Samuel Beckett play – Scobie has stated that the book is not designed to be a sequel to Finding Freedom, and that the Sussexes only play a relatively minor role in it. Instead, he has claimed that it is a no-holds-barred look at the certain state of the Royal Family, stuffed full of would-be scandalous revelations.

Scobie will no doubt be crying all the way to the bank when Endgame sells the expected vast number of copies

Thanks to what has been released into the public domain prior to publication tomorrow, we now know that the Prince of Wales is eager to inherit the throne and to ‘do things the Cambridge way’; that he reportedly believes his younger brother has been brainwashed by ‘an army of therapists’; that the King has, it is said, been struggling with a personal desire to bring Prince Andrew back into the royal fold, to a point of being tearful at his continued exclusion; and that two members of the Royal Family allegedly questioned what colour Harry and Meghan’s first child would be when it was born.