Omid Scobie on Meghan, Harry, Kate and why the royals are tearing themselves apart

Scobie didn’t help himself when Finding Freedom came out by claiming to be six years younger than he really was in an interview, before being “found out” by someone on the internet. “I’m 42,” he tells me when I ask about the episode. “I work in an industry where I’m surrounded by people who are, let’s say, conservative with telling their age, particularly in television,” he explains, saying it was “par for the course” to “swipe” a few years off. Scobie says he had a “little insecurity” about turning 40, and gambled that “no one would ever know” or care about him enough to check. “You learn from those mistakes. I can’t do much more than own it,” he says sheepishly.