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Just hours after a phone call from Prince Harry to his father King Charles, wishing him a happy birthday, extracts from ‘End Game’ by biographer Omid Scobie, who previously released a biography on the Sussexes titled ‘Finding Freedom,’ said Prince Harry and his wife Meghan had ‘no idea’ the Royal Family were preparing for the Queen’s death. 

It’s believed the call between estranged father and son was the first in six months, and that they have arrange to speak again next week. Megan was also reported to have spoken to the King wishing him a happy birthday, as well as a video recorded by the Sussexes of their children Archie & Lilibet singing happy birthday sent to the King.

But now another salvo of claims from biographer Scobie’s new book ‘End Game’ have been leaked with more damming claims. The book makes explosive claims that Harry was ‘kept in the dark’ about the Queens health in the hours before she died. Other extracts leaked from the new book claim that ‘there is no going back’ for Harry & William as the Prince of Wales see his brother as a ‘defector’. the leaked extracts also go on to say William ‘doesn’t want to know’ his younger brother, who he feels has been ‘brainwashed an army of therapists’.

Extracts around the queens death, go on to say how the Sussexes had visited the UK for a number of engagements in September 2022 when the palace announced that Queen Elizabeth had been advised by her doctors to rest, and ‘By the next morning, the Sussexes had no idea that Buckingham Palace was already planning for the Queen’s final hours and the first days of the monarchy’s new era, until the Duke’s phone started ringing with an unknown number. He usually ignored those.’

Meghan told her husband to pick up the phone and he accepted the call ‘just before it stopped’, the author wrote. 

The leaked extracts go on to say ‘Harry hadn’t spoken to his father much that year, but this was not the time for any father-and-son tension. Charles told him he and Camilla were about to leave Dumfries House for Balmoral, where Princess Anne was already by the Queen’s side. He told Harry to make his way to Scotland immediately.’

Harry sent a text message to his brother William asking how he and Kate planned to Scotland and whether they could travel together but got no response, Mr Scobie claims. 

He was later told Harry had managed to secure a flight with his uncles Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.

‘It was upsetting to witness,’ Mr Scobie claims he was told by a source close to the Sussexes. ‘[Harry] was completely by himself on this.’ 

Mr Scobie alleges that Palace ‘sources’ briefed certain newspapers that Charles had personally shared the news of the Queen’s illness with his son. He quoted a friend of the duke who said this left Harry ‘crushed’.

There are expected to be many more claims in Mr Scobie’s new book Endgame, published on November 28, is likely to cause more friction between the Sussexes & Buckingham Palace.