Duchess of Edinburgh ‘furious’ over Omid Scobie’s claims she made no effort to support Meghan when she was struggling in The Firm, sources claim

The Duchess of Edinburgh is said to be ‘furious’ over claims she failed to support Meghan during her time as a working royal, sources claim.

Omid Scobie’s Endgame, published last month, claims Sophie, 58, did little to help the Duchess of Sussex, 42, as she struggled to adapt to life in The Firm.

Elsewhere in the book, Scobie labels both Sophie and Prince Edward “casually bigoted,” referring to an interview they conducted after Meghan claimed members of the royal family had raised “concerns” about the color of Prince Archie’s skin before he was born.

After the fallout from the book rocked the British royal family, friends close to the Duchess have disputed many of Scobie’s claims in the book and have gone on the defensive.

They said The sun the opposite of Scobie’s claims is true, and that Sophie in fact went out of her way to make Meghan feel included and welcome in The Firm.

Friends close to the Duchess of Edinburgh insisted that Sophie invited Meghan and Harry for a cup of tea early in their relationship to try to bond with her.

An insider described as a ‘senior royal source’ told the newspaper: ‘It was just the two of them and they talked for hours. Meghan had so many questions and Sophie, who knows what it’s like to navigate the early days of transitioning from a commoner to a royal, freely offered her advice.”

The source added that Sophie found Meghan “captivating” and told her she could call at any time.

Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, went out of her way to make the Duchess of Sussex feel welcome at The Firm, a source told The Sun

“She was quite surprised when that was the last she heard from Meghan. As she noted, it would have been nice to receive an invitation to return to Frogmore Cottage,” the source claimed.

Omid Scobie’s Endgame focused on several members of The Firm, including the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.

The royal author accused Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, of “a royal faux pas” over their response to Harry and Meghan’s interview on Oprah.

The couple, then the Earl and Countess of Wessex, spoke to The Telegraph in their first major interview together in more than two decades and jokingly asked: “Oprah who?” and ‘which interview?’ when asked if they had noticed Harry and Meghan’s bombshell.

“You know, if you don’t like chat shows, there’s no reason why you should know who she is. At least not in this country,” Sophie said about the American chat show host.

But Omid has claimed that “the comments about the world’s most successful black woman and one of the biggest faces in entertainment” have left the royal duo “stuffy or stumpy at best, and casually bigoted at worst.”

“Sophie’s blunder at Oprah is another page to add to the history of recent failures,” Scobie said.

For Scobie, Sophie and Edward’s apparent ignorance could be used as evidence that the monarchy is an “intolerant organization, steeped in bigotry and privilege.”

Elaborating further on the couple, the author said even their trip to the Cayman Islands in February this year couldn’t land them on the headlines.

According to Scobie, their excursion did not reach the Western press and was only featured in the Cayman Compass and Cayman News Service.

Scobie recalled a conversation with a “top Fleet Street editor” about Sophie and Edward, who apparently claimed: “I’d have better luck if my mother was on the front page.”

The author recapped Sophie and Edward’s trip to Antigua in March 2022, painting a picture of them supposedly ‘smiling’ and ‘waving’ at the public ‘demanding an apology and reparative justice’ for the British colonization of the Caribbean.