Prince Harry’s desperate plea to Charles as he rushed to see dying Queen
Prince Harry was ‘ completely by himself ‘ and ‘ remained in the dark ‘ about his beloved grandmother’s health before she died, an explosive new book has claimed.
Omid Scoobie, a friend of Harry and Meghan and a royal biographer, claims that Prince William ignored his brother’s texts and calls while frantically planning his trip to Balmoral while rushing to be by the dying Queen’s side. In an excerpt from his book, Endgame, which is due to be released later this month, Omid says the brother’s painful feud has shifted to a troubling new phase, hardening “into something colder and more immovable, says Scobie: indifference”.
Prince Harry admitted in his own book Spare that he had to travel alone to Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, where the late Queen was staying on September 8, 2022 because her health had deteriorated rapidly. Recently, new allegations have been made about those fateful hours. According to Omid’s book, reports at the time that King Charles had personally informed his son about the Queen’s death were innacurate. Instead, the Duke of Sussex’s “team literally begged for the palace to wait for his plane to land, and they reluctantly agreed to retrace the statement for a short while.”
The excerpt also mentions Harry’s inability to contact his older brother William when it came to making arrangements to travel together to Scotland, and he was instead forced to board a separate flight from the rest of his immediate family.
It was during this time that, Scobie writes, a “tug-of-war between the Sussexes ‘ team and Buckingham Palace over whether to announce the news without Harry being informed” commenced, and the Prime Minister had already been told the news about the Queen’s death. The Palace claimed Charles tried to call Harry, but sources later told me there was never any proof that there was no longer any room for delay.
When Harry started flying over two hours after Scobie’s claim that the Queen had passed away at 3.10pm, he was still unaware when, according to Scobie, bad weather conditions further slowed his flight.
The Buckingham Palace press office’s staff members were unable to wait any longer, according to the book, who received a text from Meghan urging him to call right away after the news broke that the Queen had passed away.
Endgame has been described on Amazon as “a perceptive investigation into the current state of the British monarchy,” and will be available in full later this month. The book’s description has added: “An unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to dangerous lengths to preserve her image, and a prince forced to start a new life after being betrayed by his own family”.
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