Omid Scobie claims King Charles gloated over William and Kate’s ill-fated Caribbean tour after his offers to help organise the trip were refused
- Prince William and Princess Kate were accused of colonial insensitivity
- King Charles is said to have taken pleasure from the PR mishap
- Omid Scobie said the pleasure came after the King offered to help them
The book Endgame claims King Charles derived a certain pleasure from Prince William’s ill-fated tour to the Caribbean in March last year.
The Duke and Duchess of Wales were accused of colonial ‘insensitivity’ and author Omid Scobie’s states his father had a ‘schadenfreude’ – pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune – from the PR disaster.
This allegedly came after William refused Charles’ offers of help in organising the trip.
Kate and Prince William rode standing in an open-top Land Rover during the Commissioning Parade in Jamaica.
This was deemed controversial by some commentators and critics, who claimed it echoed Britain’s colonial past.
The Duke and Duchess of Wales (pictured) rode standing in an open-top Land Rover during the Commissioning Parade in Jamaica
The trip was deemed controversial by some commentators and critics, who claimed it echoed Britain’s colonial past
Prince William and Princess Kate were accused of colonial ‘insensitivity’ and author Omid Scobie states his father had a ‘schadenfreude’ – pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune
Omid Scobie (pictured) also claims that Charles saw the idea of changes as something his son was ‘dangling’ in front of him like a carrot that he could never achieve personally
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Charles is also said to have been ‘furious’ over his son’s ‘effrontery’ when William claimed, in an attempt to make amends, that he planned to ‘rip up the royal rule book’, abandon his family’s ‘never complain, never explain mantra’ and instigate ‘the Cambridge way’.
At the time, William was Duke of Cambridge.
William also spoke about how he planned to modernise the monarchy, cut the number of staff and create a more cost-effective, less formal team.
His father is said to have seen this as ‘disrespectful’ and an attempt to ‘upstage’ him.
Scobie also claims that Charles saw the idea of changes as something his son was ‘dangling’ in front of him like a carrot that he could never achieve personally given the set-up at Clarence House, while failing to explain how he would himself deliver it.
The author was not on the trip but claims what happened is an example of the ‘distrust and simmering animosity’ of their working relationship.
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