Best-selling British author Omid Scobie has made an impressive fortune over the years. His net worth, profession, and how he related to the Royal Family explored.
Omid Scobie‘s bombshell new book Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival tells a behind-the-scenes story of Buckingham Palace.
But who is he and how much is he worth? From his career to his links to the royal family – here’s everything you need to know about Omid Scobie.
Who is Omid Scobie and why is he famous?
Omid Scobie is a famed British journalist and writer who was born in July 1981, in Wales, United Kingdom.
co-authoring the book Finding Freedom. Scobie’s work focuses on the British royal family.
He gained prominence for co-authoring the book Finding Freedom. His publications focus on the British royal family.
His parents are Iranian and British. His mother is a social worker and his father is a British marketing director.
He grew up in Oxford with his younger brother.
He studied at the prestigious fee-paying Magdalen College School, where a single term in 2023 will set you back £7,259, or £21,777 per annum. Well-known alumni of the institution include Skyfall director Sam Mendes.
He then went on to study at The Cherwell School — another fee-paying school where total costs can tally up to more than £30,000 — before studying journalism at the London College of Communication.
Aside from his career, Scobie has also opened up on his dating life.
In the interview with the Sunday Times this weekend, he said that he is “hopelessly single” but has his French bulldog, Yoshi, for company.
What does Omid Scobie do for a living?
After graduating and pursuing a career in his chosen field of study, Mr Scobie for a time worked at Heat magazine and US Weekly where he stayed for ten years as the European bureau chief.
Part of his role at the publication was to report on the Royal Family, something which became a keen interest and was transferred to his role as royal editor-at-large at Harper’s Bazaar.
A job at ABC News also presented itself, this time as a contributor writing and producing pieces on the royals, as well as separate work appearing on Good Morning America offering royal analysis and a spot on the network’s royal podcast, the HeirPod.
As a writer, he is best known for co-authoring Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of A Modern Royal Family – a biography by Scobie and Carolyn Durand, revolving around the married lives of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
The work, which was published in August 2020 by HarperCollins, sold more than 31,000 copies in five days and was number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list.
Finding Freedom lays bare many private details about the Sussexes and their time as working royals, from the beginning of Harry and Prince William’s alleged feud, Meghan’s struggle to adapt to her new life, and allegations of racist comments made.
Despite claims the Sussexes did not help him with his first book, a High Court case last year was told they did brief favourable stories via an aide.
He insists that he was not in direct contact with Harry and Meghan over the book and sources close to the Sussexes deny they are ”affiliated” with it.
Does Omid Scobie know Meghan Markle and Prince Harry?
Scobie, who has been dubbed “Meghan’s Cheerleader” reportedly first met the Duchess of Sussex at Toronto Fashion Week in 2015, before she was dating Harry — at least not publicly.
He said for this reason he did not realise the significance of the encounter.
Scobie later wrote a now famous account of the Sussexes’ final engagement as working royals in 2020 when Meghan offered him “a big farewell hug” beneath the “malachite candelabras” at Buckingham Palace.
During the last meeting, he was one of only three journalists invited, and has since been dubbed “Meghan’s Cheerleader”.
This weekend, in an interview with the Sunday Times, Mr Scobie said he was “hopelessly single but has his French bulldog, Yoshi, for company.
What has Omid Scobie published?
Aside from co-authoring Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of A Modern Royal Family with American journalist Carolyn Durand in 2020, Scobie has also gone on to work on other titles.
His latest book Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival, will be released in the UK on November 28, 2023.
It promises to look “inside” the royal family and the monarchy’s “fight for survival”.
Scobie has already made some startling claims in Endgame, including attempts to portray a rift between King Charles and eldest son Prince William.
Some of the claims made in Endgame also include that the Palace lied by saying Camilla would not be Queen – despite Queen Elizabeth II saying it was her “sincere wish” in 2020.
The book also claims that Princess Kate and Meghan Markle last spoke four years ago.
The author published excerpts of the book before its publication in the French gossip magazine Paris Match.
What is Omid Scobie’s net worth?
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s biographer, Omid Scobie has accumulated an impressive fortune over the years that rakes in millions of dollars.
The British writer has a staggering net worth of between £800,000 and £4,000,0000, per Express UK. The millionaire accrued his money from being an author, and journalist.
An instant hit, Finding Freedom sold more than 31,000 copies in the first five days of its publication, topping bestseller lists across the UK.