Omid Scobie's new book Endgame is branded 'vicious' and 'poisonous' as he claims Charles, Camilla and William conspired to undermine Harry and Meghan and depicts royals as pantomime-style villains

A caller book connected nan royals was branded 'vicious' and 'plain nasty' past night.

While Buckingham Palace kept a contemptuous silence, well-placed sources described chaotic claims that Charles, Camilla and William conspired to undermine Harry and Meghan arsenic 'depressingly poisonous'. 

Omid Scobie's book besides takes purpose astatine nan Princess of Wales, branding her 'cold' and lambasting her for backing intelligence wellness causes while 'ignoring Meghan's cries for help'.

It tries to stoke a statement complete nan Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh's jokey bid to deflect questions astir nan Sussexes' bombshell Oprah Winfrey question and reply by saying: 'Oprah who?'

He says this made Edward and Sophie look 'casually bigoted'. Endgame, which was published successful Australia yesterday and hits shelves present today, paints an almost comically antagonistic position of nan monarchy, pinch royals depicted arsenic pantomime-style villains.

Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace person declined to comment, believing they person thing to summation from engaging pinch nan claims. Charles and William were some alternatively retired connected nationalist engagements adjacent to their hearts – nan King hosting a world finance acme and his boy attending nan Tusk Conservation Awards.

Those successful royal circles picture nan book arsenic 'plain nasty', 'vicious' and a 'skewed' retelling of family events 'in nan Sussex style'. Endgame claims:

• Charles's 'ineptitude' successful handling Harry and Meghan – and refusal to springiness them nan apology they demanded – has turned them into 'disruptors';
• Harry tried to 'reach out' to his begetter aft nan publication of his vitriolic memoir, Spare, earlier this twelvemonth by calling his father, but felt nan King's consequence was 'cold and brief';
• Senior royals turned a unsighted oculus to aides leaking specifications astir nan Sussexes arsenic portion of their powerfulness games and subjected them to 'institutional cruelty';
• William and his begetter are astatine loggerheads astir nan early of nan monarchy and nan handling of family issues;
• Their 'distrust and simmering animosity' resulted successful Charles deriving 'schadenfreude' from his son's supposedly disastrous circuit of Caribbean past year;
• William is 'colder' – but besides inexplicably much 'hot-headed' – than his begetter and 'has nary problem taking prisoners connected nan way';
• Camilla colluded successful stories being leaked astir different royals and has 'no relationship' pinch Harry. The book says she has 'great sympathy' for what Meghan went done but 'no respect' for nan measurement nan Sussexes handled themselves;
• The King was truthful indecisive astir really to dainty his beleaguered relative Andrew that William had to measurement successful to insist he suffer his privileges;
• Charles 'stumbled' done his first 100 days arsenic King and Queen Elizabeth had truthful small religion successful him she made a erstwhile spymaster her 'CEO'.

Despite Scobie's claims to beryllium independent from nan Sussexes, they are nan only ones spared his crisp words, rumours and tittle-tattle. He claims elder royals were suspicious of Harry and Meghan's occurrence and undermined them.

Meghan suffered because she was excessively dynamic, he says, 'insufficiently reverential' arsenic a female of colour moving successful an 'entitled, exceedingly achromatic space' and reminded nan royals of Princess Diana.

As a consequence he says palace aides refused to take sides her against nan antagonistic stories that had begun to look astir her, while being happy to return action against a publication that suggested Kate had undergone 'baby Botox'.

By opposition Queen Elizabeth liked nan truth that 'Katie Keen' – a moniker said to person originated connected societal media – was 'coachable' arsenic a early royal.

Yet Scobie claims her deficiency of patronages, engagements and insistence connected spending clip pinch her 3 young children successful nan schoolhouse holidays makes her technically a 'part-time moving royal'.

Scobie says nan connection pursuing Harry and Meghan's Oprah question and reply that 'recollections whitethorn vary' was deliberately drafted to 'plants seeds of uncertainty successful people's minds' astir their claims.

Wiliam, meanwhile, displays 'indifference', 'harshness' and continues to 'stonewall' Harry erstwhile each his relative wants is 'honest conversations and accountability'. William's attempts to beforehand group harmony are branded 'opportunistic' giving his refusal to talk to Harry astir 'unconscious bias' successful his ain family.

The book says Charles and Meghan discussed nan rumor successful an speech of letters – successful which she named 2 group she claims expressed concerned astir her boy Archie's tegument colour – but William has grounded to respond to nan King's requests for him to talk astir it pinch Harry too.

While aides had expected nan book to beryllium a 'hatchet job' based connected Scobie's antecedently flattering tome astir nan Sussexes, Finding Freedom, it has still upset many.

One root said that while overmuch of it is simply a 'rehash' of well-known events from a 'decidedly Sussex skew', nan almost pantomime quality of nan protagonists calls overmuch of what Scobie claims into question.

Another said location was a 'fairytale' aerial to nan book. 'It conscionable shows really small he really knows. It's rather embarrassing really,' they remarked.

The book does nevertheless incorporate immoderate insights complete nan letters exchanged by Charles and Meghan and connected nan Sussexes' regular family routine.