Omid Scobi, the journalist so close to Meghan and Harry that England (and Buckingham) is angry

Inside the walls of Buckingham, her name is as taboo as Meghan’s and Harry’s. Back End of the reign (Shem), journalist Omid Scobi publishes his latest book against the House of Windsor, which he says is on the verge of collapse, this Tuesday, November 28. He describes King Charles III, who suffers from unpopularity, the closed-minded Queen Camilla, the scheming Prince William, who is thirsty for power and the murderous Kate Middleton, who only smiles kindly for the photographers. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, according to him, the atmosphere is completely different. Life is good in Montecito, and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have a bright future. Their portrait is so flattering that we are hardly surprised to read; “They lived happily and had many children.”

Reading these pages we understand the anger of a section of the English press who are so inclined to attack the Sussexes. Across the channel, tabloids weren’t waiting for the book’s release to launch hostilities. For Daily Mail:, this work turns “conspiracy theories into fact” when others see it as Harry’s final stab. Omid Scobi claims to have recovered the truth. But what is it really? Should we see a sign of Meghan Markle, who is said to be so close to this royalty specialist, in these 400 pages? No, assures the main stakeholder. in the columns of Times , hits him, he is not “his friend”. No offense to evil tongues.

“I have mutual friends with Megan”

If today, three years ago, the name of Omid Scobi is mentioned everywhere in English newspapers, nobody knew him. But in early 2020, when Meghan and Harry announced their abdication, she became a privileged observer of the crisis besetting the Windsors. From London, where he lives and works Harper’s BazaarA reporter takes advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to cover the heartbreaking departure of a sulphurous prince couple who were already close. He signed a contract with American Caroline Durand in August 2020 Finding freedom, an exciting and very (too?) well-informed story behind the scenes of Megxit. It’s enough to make the many royal correspondents in the UK jealous of H&M (nicknamed the Sussexes).

First, Meghan Markle will confirm, no, she did not participate in the post Finding freedom. But in November 2021, during the trial against Mail on Sunday In an invasion of privacy, the duchess will admit to providing “briefing notes” to an aide before meeting the two authors. There is no doubt in London that Omid Scobi has established himself as a close friend, even a friend, of the former American actress. Which has the potential to irritate the main stakeholder who is mostly working Harper’s Bazaar et ABC News. “I am very aware that I am not liked very much in Britain. Everything they say about me is like I’m the worst person,” he laments Times, November 25. However, he admits that he communicates with the “H&M” circle. “I have mutual friends. [Meghan]and it definitely helps me get information and details.”

A fan or a professional?

As we delve into Omid Scobi’s career, we understand more about the journalist’s chemistry with Meghan Markle. She, like him, grew up in a middle-class family, and he, like her, is the result of a mixed marriage; his father is Scottish, his mother is Iranian. From reporter Laura Pullman TimesThe Oxford Briton recalls that as a mixed-race royal expert, he was intrigued by the Meghan-Harry couple for their love story, which he describes as “most touching”. “I worked hard to make sure I was close to every person in their lives and to become someone that people in the House looked to as someone they could go to when they needed to correct information in an article.” As for journalistic ethics, we’ll get back to that… But this support made her the target of anti-Meghan trolls on the Internet. “Honestly, I’ve really struggled with it. “Sometimes I wanted to disappear.”

Before becoming an H&M fan, Omid Scobi had already reported on Kate and William but had “no personal interest in the royal family”. Not just since 2016 and the arrival of a nasty actress anyway Suits In the life of “Dirty Harry”. At the time, he was covering Windsor news for an American magazine Us Weekly, whose London office he opened. He resigned in 2017 to join Harper’s Bazaar, as the editor-in-chief of the royalty department. A position he still holds today alongside columns for ABC News and the show Good Morning America.

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Shame on the Windsors

As for his personal life, we don’t know much about Omid Scobi. Except that he’s “desperately lonely,” that he enjoys the company of his French bulldog, Yoshi, and that he was once passionate about K-Pop (he even launched a website dedicated to Korean pop culture in 2012). Apart from this, her detractors do not hesitate to note her distinct physical transformation. In about twenty years, the journalist’s face is almost unrecognizable. Which leads some to say that Scobie indulged in cosmetic surgery. He denies it Times. “People are obsessed with this,” he sighs. “I didn’t go under the knife, I didn’t do anything crazy.” Really? OK, she admits she’s only tried Botox, but that was “many years ago.” Plus, she likes Ultherapy, a non-surgical, ultrasound-assisted facelift. Anyway, Omid Scobi seems to have found the secret of eternal youth at the age of 42.

In any case, Omid Scobi is not done talking about him. with the publication of End of the reign, he attracts the wrath of all England. Over the course of the pages, he gives a scathing assessment of “The Firm” (the name given to the British Crown), whose downfall he predicts. There is no doubt for the journalist, the end of the Windsors has come soon. William is a businessman. a “hot head” who “feels better about the dirty tricks of the palace and the courtiers who invent them”. While Charles III is maligned, he is portrayed as “a flawed father and unstable husband who destroyed Princess Diana’s life.” Basically, Scobie describes, a “power struggle worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy” develops, “between a beloved prince and an unloved king.” He probably forgets to mention one character, that of a journalist hated by the crown, sowing trouble, but carrying unspeakable secrets.