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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were reportedly hoping to enter a “new era” when a new book about the couple and the Royal Family was published last year.
Endgame, written by journalist Omid Scobie, who reportedly is on friendly terms with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, focused on the monarchy’s existing role and how much this has changed over recent years, especially since Harry and Meghan quit royal life in 2020.
Within the book’s pages, support was shown for the duke and duchess, who were fully settled into life in Montecito by this point, while criticisms continued to be aimed at other royal relatives.
Although some people may believe Harry, 40, and Meghan, 43, were fans of the book and its content, one royal commentator claimed this was not true.
Daily Mail royal editor Rebecca English said the book dug up issues and scandals from months and years ago that the Royal Family, including the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who would have preferred not to be back in the spotlight.
Appearing on the Mail+’s programme Palace Confidential previously, Ms English said: “It’s raised uncomfortable situations that the family were really hopeful of trying to bury, and I include Harry and Meghan in that.
“I remember after the whole furore around Spare, and before that the Netflix documentary and all of the interviews, one member of their team briefing very grandly that this was the end of their ‘look-back projects’.
“Part of me thought, who gives you the right to say this is our programme of look-back projects?
“But that’s what they said: we are entering this new era, and now we are focusing on our future, our own self-generated stuff rather than stuff about the Royal Family.
“And they haven’t done any Royal Family-related project, so I get the impression they were really hoping to start to move forward, slightly naively, I think.”
When journalist Omid Scobie published Endgame last year, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had already released their Netflix docuseries almost a year earlier, along with Harry’s own memoir Spare in 2023.
In both of these, the couple did not hesitate to slam certain Royal Family members and expose personal and private conversations.
This is believed to have been the source of the rift between Prince Harry and his brother Prince William, 42, whom he is no longer on talking terms with. Since the release of Harry’s memoir Spare, the couple have not spoken publicly about the Royal Family.
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