Loose Women: Panelists discuss new Royal book

Omid Scobie has come under attack from Queen Elizabeth II’s former press secretary after being accused of “trashing” the Royal Family in his book, Endgame.

The book, which was released this week, makes a series of claims against the Royal Family, with the likes of King Charles III, Prince William, and Princess Kate in the firing line.

Dickie Arbiter, who was the Queen’s former press secretary from 1988-2000, spoke to GB News about some of the claims made in the book.

GB News host Camilla Tominey asked him: “You’re in the book as well. Are you trashed? What’s said about you?” Arbiter replied: “I can’t remember, I skipped over it so quickly, let’s move on.”

The Queen’s former press secretary took a swipe at Scobie, saying: “I think he’s done this book, because after Finding Freedom, published in 2020, the barrier was down at Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace,

“He wasn’t getting any entry there, getting anything out of them, and therefore he had to find another source of income, and this is it.”

“It’s very unfair. He seems to be trashing — the King, Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales, they are his Benoît — he is having a go at everything that they do, that they are, allegedly the future of the monarchy, but unless they change their ways, there isn’t going to be a monarchy.

“He’s actually trashing the organization that made him a very lucrative living.”

He brings up the recent Dutch debacle, and said: “It’s breaking news on this. It’s in Holland. They had to halt the publication there because it names whoever was the royal who talked of Archie’s skin color.”

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Arbitar wondered: “Now I’m a bit confused, was it a royal? Or somebody in the royal household?”

Tominey replied: “Or was it royals? Plural? Because Omid is giving these interviews saying, ‘Well, I know who they are, but I haven’t put them in the book, but then Tom Bower said, he did put them in the book, but we’re not going to mention any names here.”

Tominey also queried whether the royals should refute what Scobie has been saying of them.

But Arbiter disagreed, and said: “Let’s go back to Margaret Thatcher, when she was having a go at the media, over all that publicity of the IRA, saying, “Do not give them the oxygen of publicity.’ The same applies to this.”

He added: “I’ve only read a third of the book, I’ve been working today, and snatching time between, and this third of the book is rehashing stuff that’s been in the newspapers for the past 15 years.”

“It ain’t old until it’s told, but it’s been told time and time again. There’s nothing new so far.”

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