Did Meghan Markle copy a children’s book for her Netflix TV show? The Duchess of Sussex faces plagiarism claims

After her latest venture with the streaming service ’With Love Meghan’ was met with with a wave of negative reviews, Markle and Netflix are in the headlines once again.

Markle announced in 2021, that she was set to co-produce (along with David Furnish) an animated series called Pearl, with the show now not going ahead.

British author Mel Elliott claimed recently in an interview with the Daily Mail how Meghan’s Pearl series bore “striking” similarities to her Pearl Power children’s books.

Elliott added that her lawyers reached out to a representative for the Duchess of Sussex and Netflix on a series of occasions but never got a reply: “I would have loved to have contributed and collaborated”.

Now living in Hastings in the UK, Elliott said, “I am glad that Meghan’s Pearl show was dropped, and I hope that I had something to do with it. But what I really wanted was for it to have gone ahead, and for me to have been acknowledged or invited to work as a collaborator on the series."

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