Meghan Markle gets accused of plagiarism for children's TV show

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry signed a Netflix deal for $100 million a few years ago, which would allow them to produce various content for the streamer. This included documentaries and scripted programming, as well as children's TV. Some of the projects have yet to be released, and one has recently gotten Markle into trouble.

There is no proof yet that Markle is guilty of the accusations against her. She might be guilty of producing some non-quality viewing, such as her recent passion project, With Love, Meghan. That doesn't make her a bad person, though. It simply means she might need to work on how well her work turns out.

Whether she committed plagiarism when working on a children's TV series called Pearl is a different question altogether. Again, there is no proof yet that she did. An author named Mel Elliott, though, is saying Pearl seems an awful lot like her series of Pearl Power books. The name "Pearl" is the same for both, but there needs to be more evidence to support a plagiarism accusation.

Meghan Markle accused of plagiarism for unproduced Netflix children's show

According to the Daily Mail, Elliott says Markle's series has "striking similarities" to what she produced. Markle's show follows a young girl who learns to understand her own power after finding inspiration from historical influential women.

This could mirror something Elliott did, but we have no evidence of this. The premise sounds so general that it would be easy to find similarities between that and many other works. The use of "Pearl" in itself is not alone strong enough to support the lawsuit that Elliott has brought forth in a UK court as plagiarism.

How Elliott found out about the possible premise of Markle's show, who knows? The author claims she sent legal letters to Archewell Productions, a production company that helps produce content for Markle and Prince Harry on Netflix, about possible copyright issues, but received no response.

In other words, more is likely to come from the lawsuit. Maybe the whole thing is a coincidence. For Meghan Markle's sake, Netflix viewers should hope so.

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