A Sussex silence even more damning than the ‘royal racist’ stink bomb: MAUREEN CALLAHAN’s devastating takedown of Harry and Meghan’s cowardly refusal to denounce lying Scobie’s noxious slurs

Harry and Meghan are playing their most dangerous game yet.

These two cowards, who set off this slow-release stink bomb of racist accusations two-and-a-half-years ago — yet still have no problem hypocritically trading on their titles, that most tenuous association with a royal house they have trashed as bigoted — must now say something.

It is Day Three since the odious Omid Scobie’s ‘Endgame’ hit shelves, revealing, in the Dutch version, the so-called royal ‘racists’.

Since then we’ve seen a smug, unbothered Scobie insist that he never wrote those names in any draft, that their inclusion must have been the fault of translators.

Here’s the thing: You can’t mistranslate something that was never there.

How hubristic of Scobie, in a British morning show appearance on Thursday, to yet again insist that his manuscript never contained the names.

Hours later, the translator who worked on the book confirmed to the Mail: ‘The names of the royals were there in black and white. I did not add them.’

It doesn’t get more explicit than that. 

Let’s hope Scobie’s enjoying this ill-gotten round of media hype. Blaming one’s publisher for such an egregious, possibly litigious error is a great way to ensure no other publishing house will ever work with you again.

Indeed, a source told the Mail that ‘I understand the palace is considering all options open to them’.

Piers Morgan, not a little controversial, divulged the names of the accused royals – who the Mail has chosen not to reveal at this stage – on his show last night.

His stated reason was that if the names are out there somewhere, the public deserve to know.

It is a decision that some have described as reckless. But Morgan has now removed the final arrow from Scobie’s — and by extension, Harry and Meghan’s — quiver.

On Wednesday, Scobie went on TV to say — threaten, really — that at some point, he may choose to reveal those identities. That has now been taken from him. How satisfying. How deserved.

Not so much the morning sun rises over their idyllic Montecito mansion — to paraphrase Scobie’s florid description of House Sussex in ‘Endgame’ — as does the blast radius from this most noxious explosion.

As if we needed more proof that anything related to H&M redounds to their own seedy striving, their own perverse definitions of thriving, relevance, freedom. And, of course, the truth.

The Dutch publisher, Xander Uitgevers, has been alarmed enough to pull and pulp all extant copies.

As for Scobie’s ludicrous protestations that he never wrote those names, note the stark difference in the English-language version of ‘Endgame’: ‘Laws in the United Kingdom’, he writes, ‘prevent me from reporting who they were’.

Meanwhile, Uitgevers’s official line has been to dodge Scobie’s ‘mistake of translation’ excuse.

As their statement read: ‘[We] temporarily removed the book from sale due to an error that occurred in the Dutch edition’.

‘Error’. Not ‘mistranslation’.

Sloppy, reckless and accusatory – which just about sums up Brand Sussex.

One would think that if Harry and Meghan truly had nothing to do with this ugly, viperish book and its horrific claims, they would have denounced it immediately.

One would think if they believed the royals aren’t racist — as Harry retroactively insisted this year, while plugging his own memoir ‘Spare’ — they’d have been out front with a strongly-worded statement.

Here in the US, no less an A-lister than Chris Rock mocked Meghan’s tale of racist woe in his 2023 Netflix special ‘Selective Outrage’.

‘Some of that s**t she went through was not racism’, Rock said. ‘It was just some in-law s**t. Because she’s complaining, like — what the f**k is she talking about? ‘Oprah they’re so racist, they wanted to know how brown the baby was going to be.’ That’s not racist! Even Black people want to know how brown the baby is going to be’.

Recall that the original story, as relayed to Oprah in 2021 by Meghan, referenced a single senior royal.

One. Now, suddenly, it’s two.

But even during the ninety-minute sit-down with Oprah, the Sussexes couldn’t keep their story straight.

Meghan – at this point alone with Oprah – said she wouldn’t name the accused royal as it would be ‘very damaging to them’, but she did divulge that there were ‘several conversations’ about what color Archie would be while she was pregnant.

Later in the interview, joined by Harry, Oprah asked the prince about the claims.

He also declined to identify the family member – but note this key difference: ‘That conversation [singular] I’m never going to share… but that was right at the beginning [of our relationship]… before we even got married.’

Not, in other words, when Meghan was pregnant.

It was classic Harry and Meghan: Moving the goalposts, changing specifics, shambolic and dissembling.

If this sorry saga really took place as they allege — if it were as traumatic and earth-shaking as they’d have us believe — you’d think they’d remember every single detail and never once waver.

Yet here was Harry telling Tom Bradby in January this year that neither he nor Meghan have ever said that any member of the royal family was racist: ‘The British press said that’ Harry said. ‘Did Meghan ever mention, ‘They’re racists’?

That’s how slippery these two are. Even the sympathetic Bradby looked stunned.

Let’s be clear: While Meghan may never have said the word ‘racist’, she certainly sat there with the gravest expression, dropping this claim — one of the most disgusting and damaging imaginable — and nodding as Oprah overdid her shocked-and-appalled reaction.

Harry did nothing to disabuse her either.

Surely it’s not coincidental that Oprah – once a Sussex BFF – has since kept a very public distance from the pair.

Funny that this allegation never came up in Meghan’s one-season, since-cancelled ‘Archetypes’ podcast. Or the couple’s six-part Netflix doc — you know, the one in which Meghan savagely mocked her curtsy to the Queen. Or in her acceptance speech at this year’s ‘Women of Vision’ awards in New York City, which was followed by what an H&M spokesperson called a ‘reckless’ two-hour, high-speed chase in Manhattan that night, one even New York’s mayor Eric Adams said was ‘hard to believe’.

For so many of us, Harry and Meghan are fabulists at best, reputation destroyers at worst.

Scobie, too, has a penchant for falsehoods: Once lying about his age — in 2020 he told an interviewer he was 33 when he was actually 40 – and, earlier this month, while promoting ‘Endgame’, claiming to another journalist that he had never flown private, only to be asked about a photo from his own Instagram of… him flying private.

‘Okay, that was a private jet’, Scobie admitted. ‘But that was only going from L.A. to Palm Springs. It was very short’.

You see: truth is fungible, facts are subjective, and accountability is for other people. Scobie may have written the book, but something or someone else is at fault for adding those names. Right?

It throws the credibility of the entire book into question.

A book which seethes with a fury painfully similar to that of Harry and Meghan, two spoiled brats who will never be satisfied and seethe with resentment at being also-rans.

Here’s Scobie on why the royal family loves Kate Middleton: ‘Like Diana, Kate became a sparkling showpiece for the Firm, a symbol of refined beauty and those white, English Rose genetics the British newspapers love so much’.

Now who’s racializing the royals?

As for Scobie’s assertions that he has not been fed any information by the Sussexes — well, who provided the contents of the private letters between Charles and Meghan in which they named the accused ‘royal racists’?

It certainly wasn’t the Palace – a senior source confirmed as much yesterday.

It’s no coincidence that Scobie viciously assails every member of the royal family in his book except for Harry and Meghan, who are given quite the halo effect. They are faultless. If anything, their stars shine too bright for the existing royal firmament.

We’re not stupid.

If Harry and Meghan have an ounce of self-preservation left, they’ll speak out, dispel confusion, and clarify where they stand.

Then again, after saying the royals are bigots-but-not-racist-at-all — who would believe them?