Omid Scobie describes the fallout of a royal family race row sparked by his latest book Endgame

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00:00 Yeah, what a series of events, right?

00:02 And what a frustrating experience for me

00:05 for a book that was so heavily vetted,

00:08 legaled, I's dotted, T's crossed,

00:11 and a book that I was extremely proud of

00:13 now completely overshadowed by an event

00:15 that has caused me a lot of frustration as well.

00:17 We have a full investigation going on

00:20 into this series of events that happened.

00:22 Of course, when it first happened,

00:24 I'd only found out on social media.

00:26 I was in back-to-back interviews on the day.

00:28 We saw that there was one name in the book.

00:30 And so the Dutch publisher told us

00:32 there was a translation error.

00:33 And so you get on with the day

00:35 and then it sort of unfolds from there.

00:37 So I'm looking forward to finding out more about it

00:40 because the English version of the book,

00:41 the only one I know, the version that I signed off on,

00:45 that is the book that is out there today.

00:47 That's the book that has no names in it.

00:49 And I make it very clear because ultimately,

00:53 to write the names, it's a show-and-tell situation.

00:57 there's no ability to show, so there was never an attempt to name.