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Gabbing with Gib

Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and The Future of the Royal Family with Omid Scobie

Gabbing with Gib

Gibson Johns

Tv & Film

4.7713 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Best-selling author and longtime royal correspondent Omid Scobie joins "Gabbing with Gib" to talk about his explosive new book, "Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival" (https://amzn.to/4aJol5Z), the controversy it's courted and the British press' insistence on making him part of the story. He also discusses whether Meghan Markle ever had a chance with Prince Harry's family, the core issues that plague the royals, the hurdles that face Kate Middleton and Prince William as they prepare for William to take the throne, what he really thinks about Meghan and Harry's moves since they moved to America and much more. Order "Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival" here: https://amzn.to/4aJol5Z Subscribe to "Gabbing with Gib" on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/471D8Gb Follow "Gabbing with Gib" on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3StiCtY  Follow "Gabbing with Gib" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/gabbingwithgib Follow "Gabbing with Gib" on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gabbingwithgib  Follow Gibson Johns on Instagram: https://instagram.com/gibsonoma Follow Gibson Johns on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gibsonoma Follow Gibson Johns on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gibsonoma Subscribe to Gibson Johns’ Newsletter: https://gibsonoma.substack.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gabbing-with-gib/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:29.2

Okay, so today is one of those episodes of Gabby with Gid, where we're going to veer outside of the Bravo universe for a second.

0:31.0

But I still hope it's a topic that enough of you are interested in, because I know it's

0:34.1

an area of pop culture that I've always found fascinating, the royals.

0:37.4

I don't remember the first time I became aware of the British royal family as a kid growing up in America,

0:41.7

but I do remember the Princess Diana Beanie Baby.

0:44.3

That really is my first kind of memory associated with anything royals.

0:48.8

I remember adults' fascination with Diana in general, and my mom loves the royals,

0:52.8

but my own personal interest wasn't really

0:54.9

peaked again until 2011 when Prince William married Kate Millison. I remember watching their

0:59.3

wedding on TV and some teachers live streaming the news during school as they replayed footage

1:03.8

from their instantly iconic wedding. And I remained interested after that, but not intensely so,

1:08.4

until I spent the first five years of my career working at entertainment news, where anything involving the Royals clicked extremely well. So we leaned fully in

1:15.9

and covered them a lot. And those years of covering pop culture in that sort of day-to-day, 24-hour

1:21.5

news cycle sense coincided almost exactly with the introduction and subsequent fascination with

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