“These days, warts-and-all tell-alls seem to be as integral to the Windsor brand as weddings, jubilees and blockbuster funerals,” panned The New York Times. Though Scobie claims his new book, “Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival,” has the potential to “burn bridges” but early critics argue it is not the bombshell he promised - “the royal tea spilled here isn’t exactly hot,” wrote The Washington Post.

British journalist Omid Scobie is back on the royal radar with big promises: to share what the royal family is truly like behind the scenes “completely without favor or fear,” he told Vanity Fair.