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Megan Howe

Duchess of Sussex accused of copying British author in scrapped Netflix show

Meghan Markle has been accused of plagiarising a British author’s illustrations for her axed Netflix show, after the writer claimed there were “striking similarities” between the Duchess’s project and her own work.

The feminist animated series ‘Pearl’ was announced by the Duchess in 2021 and was a series following a little girl “as she learns to step into her power and finds inspiration from influential women throughout history”.

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