Kate Middleton and King Charles will make their first joint engagement since the Omid Scobie race when they attend the Buckingham Palace reception tonight

King Charles and the Princess of Wales will join forces tonight for their first public event since Omid Scobie’s new book sparked a firestorm over ‘racist royals’.

His Majesty and the Princess of Wales, along with other members of the Royal Family, are expected to host more than 500 guests at the annual pre-Christmas diplomatic reception at Buckingham Palace.

The event will be the first time the senior royals will meet publicly since they were named among the royals who reportedly raised “concerns” about Meghan Markle’s skin color and Prince Harry’s son Archie’s skin.

British journalist Omid Scobie, whose work often focuses on The Sussexes, sparked a media storm last week after their names appeared in the Dutch translation of his new book Endgame.

Omid has since denied submitting an official manuscript mentioning the royal family, and has offered no explanation as to how this version of Endgame ended up on shelves in the Netherlands.

King Charles and Kate Middleton will meet tonight for the first time since being put at the center of a colossal racing row in Omid Scobie’s new book (Photo: His Majesty at the COP28 in Dubai on November 30)

The event, which was chaired by the late Queen Elizabeth before her death, will also include Prince William and Queen Camilla as guests and will take place in the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace.

The King will welcome more than 500 members of the Diplomatic Corps as he supports the work of British diplomacy both here and abroad.

It comes as Meghan Markle was spotted for the first time since the controversy broke last week when she stepped out in Santa Barbara in workout gear.

And she appeared to extend an olive branch to her father-in-law by wearing a bracelet gifted to her by the king in her first public appearance since the royal racism row reignited.

The Duchess of Sussex, 42, stepped out in Montecito on Monday wearing an array of casual luxuries including Princess Diana’s Cartier bracelet and watch and a diamond tennis bracelet from Bentley & Skinner – a gift from the King worth at least £ 4,900.

First worn on the eve of her wedding to Prince Harry, the piece was first created by royal warrant holders Bentley & Skinner and features ninety-two round brilliant-cut diamonds.

The bracelet, which was last worn in public in May during a walk in California, could be the duchess’s subtle nod to her family 5,000 miles away.

Her appearance comes as Scobie, who is seen as the couple’s unofficial spokesperson, is still grappling with the fallout from his new book.

An early draft of the book, given to Dutch translators, named two senior members of the royal family – King Charles and the Princess of Wales – who Meghan said spoke of their “concerns” about the color of the woman’s skin. her son Archie while she was pregnant.

Meghan first made her accusations about the conversation in her television interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021.

Harry and Meghan issued a statement saying it was not the late queen or her husband Prince Philip, but declined to name the royals who made the comments.

Scobie’s book marks the first time they are named.

British journalist Omid Scobie, whose work often focuses on The Sussexes, sparked a media storm last week after the King and Kate were named as the alleged perpetrators of apparently racist comments in the Dutch translation of his new book Endgame

Sisters in conflict! Sisters-in-law Kate and Meghan have yet to make public statements about the media furor (Photo: The Duchess of Cambridge and Duchess of Sussex attend Christmas Day church service at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham estate in 2018)

And despite the author’s denials, his British agent sent a draft manuscript of Endgame naming the two ‘royal racists’, to be translated into Dutch, it is claimed.

The revelation reveals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s “cheerleader-in-chief” saying he “never submitted a book that had those names in it.”

A source said that The Times United Talent Agency had previously sent a draft version of the book to publisher Xander Uitgevers, which included the names.

However, a final proof of the 400-page tome was later sent, but it is clear that the translator had been working from an earlier version.

Buckingham Palace is considering whether to take legal action after King Charles and the Princess of Wales were named as the senior royals who allegedly made comments about Archie’s skin color before he was born.

Mr Scobie, 42, has refused to apologize to Charles and Kate for the embarrassing accident which led to the explosive book being removed from shelves in the Netherlands.

Omid (pictured) has stepped up to defend Endgame and refused to take the blame for the racism scandal

The under-fire author has shrugged off criticism by claiming the names had been “known for a long time”, while laying the blame on the Dutch publishing house, stating: “I have never submitted a book in which those names appear.” ‘

Yet the Dutch translator Saskia Peeters continued to insist that Charles and Kate’s names were in the book.

On Thursday she told MailOnline from her home in Arnhem: ‘As a translator I translate what is in front of me.

‘The names of the royals were there in black and white. I didn’t add them. I just did what I was paid to do and that was translate the book from English to Dutch.’

The second translator, Nellie Keukelaar-van Rijsbergern, then told The Sun: ‘We are professionals and we have been doing this for years, both of us. It’s not fair.’

Mr Scobie initially blamed a ‘translation error’. Anke Roelen, director of publisher Xander, said a rectified edition of the book would be back on shelves on December 8 and simply blamed “an error” for its withdrawal.