Omid Scobie’s book on royal family pulled from
Dutch shelves over ‘error’
Book reportedly revealed who expressed ‘concerns’
about what skin colour Harry and Meghan’s son would have
Nadeem
Badshah
Tue 28 Nov
2023 21.26 GMT
A new book
about the royal family has been taken off shelves in the Netherlands after
reports it named the person who allegedly expressed “concerns” about what skin
colour Harry and Meghan’s son Archie would have.
Xander,
publishers of the Dutch translation of Endgame by the journalist Omid Scobie,
have put sales of the book on hold “temporarily” over what it called an
“error”.
The Duchess
of Sussex claimed in her interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 that an unnamed
member of the royal family raised “concerns” about Archie’s skin colour.
Winfrey has subsequently said Harry told her it was not Prince Philip or the
late Queen.
Xander said
in a statement: “[We are] temporarily withdrawing the book by Omid Scobie from
sale. An error occurred in the Dutch translation and is currently being
rectified.”
Scobie,
co-author of Finding Freedom, about the Sussexes’ fractious split from the
royal family, told Dutch media he did not mention a name in his new book. He
told the chatshow RTL Boulevard: “The book is in several languages, and
unfortunately I do not speak Dutch. But if there are translation errors, the
publisher will correct them. I wrote the English version. There was no version
from me in which names were mentioned.”
It
appeared, however, that a page taken from an advance review copy of the book,
which was sent to Dutch journalists, apparently reveals the royal’s identity,
the Daily Mail reported.
Scobie’s
book claims that, following the televised interview with Oprah in the US,
Meghan wrote a letter to King Charles, then the Prince of Wales, with her
concerns about unconscious bias in the royal family.
The alleged
letters are said to reveal the identity of two people the duchess claimed had
aired “concerns” about the colour of then-unborn Prince Archie’s skin.
At the time
of the allegations, Prince William told reporters: “We are very much not a
racist family.”
The royal
family said at the time that “whilst some recollections may vary”, the issues
brought up in the interview were “concerning” and would “be addressed”.
Scobie, 42,
has stressed in pre-publication interviews that he has not interviewed Harry
and Meghan for the book, nor is he a friend of the actor. But he told the
Times: “I have mutual friends with [Meghan], and that definitely helps with
getting information and breaking details.”
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