Royal journalist Omid Scobie has told critics of Meghan and Harry’s latest online venture to “move on”.
The royal pages are dominated by the news that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have launched a new website. Many a column inch is consumed with outrage that the couple have used their Sussex title and royal crest. Others have derided the self-aggrandising ‘About’ page, which states that Meghan “has been named one of the most influential women in the world,” and she and Harry are “shaping the future through business and philanthropy.” But Scobie, who wrote the controversial royal biography Endgame, thinks everyone needs to calm down.
“The fact that a fairly simple homepage has spawned dozens of moaning op-eds, and furious pearl clutching from commentators, proves that many here literally have nothing better to do. Move on! Touch grass. Find an interesting story. This is all so tediously boring,” he wrote on X.
Scobie became renowned for his first book about Meghan and Harry, Finding Freedom, which tells the story of their departure from the royal family. Scobie’s detractors have called him “Meghan’s Mouthpiece,” as the pair seemed to have a personal relationship, but he has denied that he is friends with couple.
Sussex.com will provide news and updates about the Duke and Duchess’s work. It was announced yesterday that Markle would be recording a new podcast with production company Lemonada, after her $20 million deal with Spotify came to an end. Spotify cancelled Markle’s first podcast, Archetypes, after one season. “Some of it has worked, some of it hasn’t,” said Spotify’s CEO at the time.
