Omid Scobie: Here's how the royal expert knows Prince Harry and Meghan

Omid Scobie is known for reporting on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. He is sometimes referred to as Harry and Meghan’s‘cheerleader-in-chief', as per Daily Mail. You may be wondering how Omid Scobie came to be a royal author for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Before becoming a ‘royal expert’ Omid Scobie was already in the journalism industry but allegedly did not like the environment. So what did Scobie do before and what is his net worth?

What did Omid Scobie do before becoming a royal expert?

As mentioned above, Omid Scobie has long been in the journalism industry. Indeed, according to Daily Mail, he studied journalism at the London College of Communication. After he left university at the of 21, Scobie worked at Heat magazine for 11 months.

According to Scobie, Heat was a ‘toxic workplace’ and he ‘quickly grew to hate it’. He then made several accusations on X (formerly known as Twitter) claiming his boss had used ‘racial slurs’ against June Sarpong and Alison Hammond.

...not one person there, including the publisher's HR department, gave a damn. "That's just [their] humour," I was told by one superior at the time.

He added:

Despite people's intentions, I'm not ashamed of that job. At 21-years-old, it was a blast covering red carpets every day and doing celebrity interviews.

What is Omid Scobie’s net worth?

According to Popular Networth, Omid Scobie’s net worth is estimated to be around $800,000, which is around £633,480.

A lot of Scobie’s estimated fortune would be from the sales of his first book, Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, which he co-wrote with Carolyn Durand and was published in August 2020. In August 2023, Omid Scobie released his second book, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival.

You may be wondering how Omid Scobie knows so much about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. According to Daily Mail, Scobie started covering the Royal Family in 2011 and then when Meghan and Harry’s relationship was the focus of all media, he took a big interest.

Omid Scobie to The Times that he was going to do everything to get close to them:

I was going to work my damn hardest to make sure I was close to every single person in their lives, and become someone that, at the very least, people at the palace feel they can come to when they need to correct a story.

He then added that when Meghan left the UK for her last solo trip as a working royal, she gave Scobie a ‘goodbye hug’. He then added:

Their high-energy work ethic and passion for social justice attracted a new, more diverse demographic of royal watcher. As a young(ish), biracial royal correspondent, the change was exciting. And as their popularity grew around the world, so did a new golden era for the House of Windsor.

Read more:

⋙ Prince William and Kate Middleton: Omid Scobie strikes back at rumours he attacked the couple

⋙ Prince Harry and Meghan: Could they spend Christmas at Sandringham?

⋙ Prince William and Prince Harry: Omid Scobie's new book gives bleak prediction for their relationship

Sources used:

Daily Mail: ‘Who is Omid Scobie? Meet Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's biographer who founded a now defunct K-Pop site and hit nightclubs with Katie Price's rival Jodie Marsh’

Popular Net Worth: ‘Omid Scobie’