Kate Middleton Wants ‘Nothing to Do’ With Meghan Markle Amid Royal Racism Claims

After days of controversy, we finally know Kate Middleton’s response to “royal racists” being named in an alleged translation of Omid Scobie’s new book, Endgame.

According to a new report by Us Weekly, the princess was not happy to find herself at the center of resurfaced royal racism claims stemming from an alleged conversation about her nephew Archie’s skin color before his birth in 2019.

“Kate was 100 percent not one of the people who discussed it,” a source told the outlet on December 1, 2023. “She is saddened that her name got pulled into this because she had nothing to do with it.”

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The insider went on to reveal that this controversy has complicated the already strained relationship between Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle. “This has closed the door on any reconciliation with Meghan as far as Kate is concerned,” the source shared. “She has had enough of Meghan’s antics and wants absolutely nothing to do with her. She will never make up with her.”

Us Weekly’s report comes just days after royal journalist and writer Omid Scobie’s new book, Endgame , was pulled from shelves in the Netherlands due to claims that the Dutch version of the book named members of the British royal family who allegedly had “concerns” over “how dark” Archie’s skin might be when he was born. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle first shared these claims during their 2020 tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, however, they did not reveal the names of the royal family members who made the alleged comments.

“I think that would be very damaging to them,” Meghan said at the time. Prince Harry added, “That conversation, I am never going to share. At the time it was awkward, I was a bit shocked.”

After Scobie’s book was pulled from shelves, British broadcaster Piers Morgan discussed the controversy and revealed the names of the royals identified in the Dutch version of Endgame. “I’m going to cut through all this crap,” he said during the November 29, 2023 episode of his show, Piers Morgan Uncensored. “I’m going to tell you the names of the two senior royals who are named in that Dutch version because if, frankly, Dutch people wandering into a bookshop can pick it up and see these names, then you, British people who actually pay for the British royal family—you’re entitled to know too.”

He went on to add, “Then we can have a debate about his whole farrago because I don’t believe any racist comments were ever made by any of the royal family and until there is actual evidence of those comments being made, I will never believe it. But now we can start the process to find out if they ever got uttered, what the context was and whether there was any racial intent at all.”

“The Royals who are named in this book are King Charles and Catherine, Princess of Wales,” Morgan said.

Scobie, for his part, has denied ever including the names in Endgame. “I never submitted a book that had those names in it,” he said in an interview on ITV’s This Morning on November 30, 2023. Meanwhile, no names appear in the English translation of Endgame.

Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival by Omid Scobie

Endgame, the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, is a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy—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.”

Queen Elizabeth II’s death ruptured the already-fractured foundations of the House of Windsor—and dismantled the protective shield around it. With an institution long plagued by antiquated ideas around race, class and money, the monarchy and those who prop it up are now exposed and at odds with a rapidly modernizing world. Relying on his vast experience as a royal reporter and over a decade of conversations and interviews with current and former Palace staff, trusted friends of the royals and even the family members themselves, Scobie pulls back the curtain on an institution in turmoil to show what the monarchy must change in order to survive.

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