How The Palace’s “Scottish Summit” Spin Fell Apart

Forgive me for doing that annoying journalist thing of banging on about my scoop, and how I “first reported” something, but this is important.

Readers of this Substack have known since last week that Prince William’s visit to Scotland, pitched by the palace as an intensive strategy retreat with the king, was nothing of the sort.

In fact, as I revealed on The Royalist, the Prince of Wales didn’t even stay at his father’s home, Birkhall, instead being lodged at Balmoral, and spent far more time shooting grouse with his friends on the moors of Balmoral than he did hunkered down with his dad.

This weekend, the London Times confirmed a crucial part of my story. In an article about the Eugene Levy interview on AppleTV+, the paper noted, “Last month William travelled to Scotland without his wife and children to visit the King and catch up with friends, staying at Balmoral while Charles was at Birkhall.”

The palace has been aggressively trying to discredit my detailed and accurate reporting, which reveals significant differences of opinion and tensions between Prince William and his father in recent weeks.

This follows a spat I had with the king’s communications secretary, Tobyn Andreae, after describing King Charles’ cancer as “incurable.”