The Royal Family will be gathering in Sandringham to celebrate Christmas together, but Prince Harry and Meghan Markle won't be joining in on the fun.
03.12.2023 - 13:33 / deadline.com
Piers Morgan has explained why he felt moved to reveal the names of the British royals that appeared in the Dutch translation of Omid Scobie’s new book Endgame, with the author alleging that they participated in “concerns and conversations” about the skin colour of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s then-unborn child.
(Committed royal watchers will need no reminding that these allegations were first aired in Harry and Meghan’s sit-down with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, but with no names of the alleged speakers given.)
This week has seen the UK media dancing around the names, including the slightly surreal episode of the BBC’s flagship radio news Today Programme not identifying them in the first hour of the programme, but then naming them in the second.
Morgan, who named the two royals on his Wednesday evening TalkTV show as being King Charles and Kate Middleton, has written in this weekend’s Times newspaper, saying he felt the situation was becoming farcical, and that he believed Scobie to be a liar.
Morgan wrote:
“It seemed absurd to me that Dutch people should be privy to significant information about our royal family, but British people would be prevented from knowing it too.
“Second, because this whole farrago has gone on long enough and caused enough damage. Frankly, it’s time we were told exactly what was allegedly said by whom to who, when and where it was said, and in exactly what context. Otherwise, this deeply divisive, racially charged sore will continue to ooze its way into global public consciousness.
“Third, because in reporting the names their identities can no longer be held over them as some kind of blackmail threat by the Sussexes.
“My own firm belief, which I’m sure will be shared by most of the British
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