How Rose Hanbury Affair Rumors Brought William And Kate Closer Than Ever

The infidelity speculation was never spoken about by any of the parties potentially involved.  Omid Scobie, a journalist focused on the royals, penned the tell-all “Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival.” In a November 2023 interview with Entertainment Tonight shortly after its publication, Scobie mentioned how he didn’t believe the rumors about Prince William cheating had any weight to them — but not bringing them up meant the gossip would persist. Rumors about the Rose Hanbury affair have started up again and again.

“They never addressed it,” Scobie said of the alleged affair, “so those rumors will never go away even though there’s no truth to suggest that they are true.” He included the affair gossip in his book but was cautious with how he approached it. “For legal reasons, there are so many things that one can’t go into, but I thought it was really important, even if a rumor is a rumor,” Scobie said. “And I really don’t see proof that there is more to this than just a tittle-tattle, you know.”

However, even if there was never an affair, just the speculation about it can be hard to deal with. Scobie added, “It probably looks even worse, actually, that there was a kind of willingness to throw Harry under the bus simply to make these things disappear.”