The name ‘Omid Scobie’ must be one of the least popular ever uttered in Buckingham and St James Palaces. Not only was the royal reporter’s bestselling 2020 book Finding Freedom a firmly partisan account of Harry and Meghan’s quasi-abdication – and, it later transpired in court, assisted by someone close to the Duchess, so that her ‘true position…could be communicated to the authors to prevent any further misrepresentation’ – but now the man known, without affection, as ‘Meghan’s mouthpiece’ has returned with another certain-to-be-controversial book.