The Netflix series by Meghan Markle, “Pearl”, faces accusations of plagiarism

Meghan Markle’s Netflix Canceled Pearlis criticized by an author for children who claims the concept plagiarized his.

The animated series of the Duchess of Sussex Pearl was one of the first ideas provided as part of her several million dollars agreement from her husband and her husband Prince Harry in 2020. People.

According to the point of sale, the British author Mel Elliott recently declared The Daily Mail How Meghan’s series had “striking” similarities with his children’s books, called Pearl power. Elliott said that she and her lawyers had contacted a representative of Meghan and Netflix several times, but have never heard of one or the other of the parties.

“I would have liked to contribute and collaborate,” said Elliott The Daily MailAdding that similarities were “too great for me to ignore”.

From 2018 – Three years before Pearl was announced and the same year, Meghan married in the royal family – Elliott intended to transform his three books into an animated series. Each episode would open with Pearl presenting a school project on an inspiring woman before leaving in a shared adventure; The first episode, for example, was to present the legend of tennis Billie Jean King.

Meghan PearlFor his part, focused on a little girl who “learns to enter her power and finds the inspiration of influential women through history”, according to People. Elliott’s books “did not initially present famous women in history,” reported the point of sale, but “was focused on the empowerment of women and equity”.

“Meghan is a feminist who is held for other women, so I was disappointed and confused to see how similar Netflix’s show is similar Pearl was mine Pearl powerwhich had been created seven years earlier, ”said Elliott The Daily Mail.

She added that, even if she “cannot know if someone in her team had seen and was inspired by”, the similarities were great. “The world of the arts and the media is very competitive, and I fear that it is fairly common for powerful people to tear the work of less known creatives – although I do not say that this is what happened here,” said Elliott.

She added that she had not taken the public from her plagiarism claims at the time “to avoid examination of the public”, People reported. “She was also in the middle of a health battle, having received a diagnosis of breast cancer in 2019.”

Elliott said The Daily Mail She was “happy that Meghan was Pearl The show was abandoned and I hope I had something to do with it. But what I really wanted is that he had done before, and for me to have been recognized or invited to work as a collaborator in the series. »»

“”Pearl Was my dream project and now, boring, if I resumed my own creation, it will seem to have copied the idea of ​​someone else, ”she continued.

While Meghan did not address these statements, in the new episode of her podcast confessions of a founding woman, the founder As Ever Ever evoked the name of the lifestyle to American Riviera Orchard while speaking with the guest (and founder of Highbrow Hippie) Kadi Lee.

“I had obtained a name as a name in 2022,” she said in the episode of April 22. “And then it all started to evolve last year and to bring in a partner the size he was”, referring to Netflix, she declared that the American Riviera Orchard “became this word salad”.

“I don’t like it so much,” she added.

Then, Meghan said, she said to herself: “” Okay, well, let’s go back to the thing I have always loved. Let us use the name I had protected for a reason that had been somehow in Wraps. ‘”

“We were able to focus in peace,” said Meghan. “And put our heads and build on something that no one was sniff to see. It was really, really very useful to have this quiet period.”