GB News host Ben Leo has made a shock revelation about Meghan Markle on GB News, following accusations of "plagiarism" against the royal by children's author Meg Elliott.The Duchess of Sussex has been called out for allegedly having "striking similarities" between her now cancelled Netflix show "Pearl" and Elliott's book, called Pearl Power.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00To the Mail on Sunday's editor-at-large, Charlotte Griffiths, an all-round royal scoop-getter
00:04to get the latest on Harry and Meghan, Charlotte, they're back in the headlines.
00:08What's going on? There's a crisis, apparently.
00:11Yes, well, Tom Bauer has just got the most incredible way with words.
00:15So he said that they're in crisis because basically they come from completely different schools of thought
00:21about where they're going with their lives.
00:23Harry doesn't particularly know what it's like to need money because, of course, he's born into royalty.
00:28But yet, as Tom Bauer says, he's never had a penny in his pocket.
00:31And that's so true about the royal family, especially Harry.
00:35When he met Meghan, he was living in Nottingham Cottage.
00:37He was living quite a frugal life in some ways because the royal family don't carry lots of cash in their pocket.
00:43And they're always trying to at least present as very frugal people because they know they're funded by the taxpayer.
00:49Then he meets Meghan, who just wants cash, cash, money, money.
00:52And what Tom Bauer is saying, she's desperate to be a billionaire.
00:55And Harry just doesn't really get it.
00:57And he also doesn't get what it's like not to have status and fame because he was born with status and fame.
01:02And he'll never really not have that.
01:04So what Tom Bauer is saying is incredible sort of leap from his next book, which I think will be a brilliant read,
01:10is that they're in crisis because they're coming from two completely different places about where their future lies.
01:16Wow. Do you know what?
01:17If this came from any other source than Tom Bauer, I'd probably say, yeah, OK, yeah, whatever.
01:23I don't really trust it. But Tom Bauer is such a respected legend of the royal game, isn't he?
01:29He's written so many books about the royal family.
01:32He wrote, what was the book about Meghan from a couple of years ago?
01:35I've forgotten the title.
01:36Lots of claims in there, which she never disputed.
01:40So he is very well connected.
01:42So do we think then, Charlotte, that because of the I mean, Meghan wants to be a billionaire, did you say?
01:48That's what Tom Bauer is saying.
01:49She wants to be a billionaire, although I don't understand how she's going to do that,
01:52because her jams are fourteen dollars and are already sold out.
01:57I mean, even at fourteen dollars, you have to sell a lot of jams to become a billionaire.
02:01And her website is it's a kind of it's called a shop my website.
02:05So she's got her as ever website, which sells ten things, one of which is jab, as we know.
02:10And she's got this other shop, which is called Shop My.
02:12It's quite a low rent, you know, it's not sort of website.
02:17It's not this amazing, sensational capitalist dream.
02:20I don't see how she's become a billionaire.
02:22And of course, any moment now we're going to find out whether her Netflix deal is going to go ahead and be renewed.
02:30I just I personally just can't see how it will be.
02:33And there's been revelations in the mail on Sunday today about how one of her ideas,
02:37which was an animated series called Pearl, it looks very likely that it got dropped
02:42because it was lifted from an author who's claimed that Meghan plagiarized her book.
02:49So it doesn't feel like the Netflix deal is going smoothly.
02:53I haven't. This is the first time I've heard about.
02:55Well, I knew about this story a couple of years ago and I've been sitting on the emails,
03:00I think probably from the same author.
03:02The first time I've heard this from you tonight, I didn't know it was in the mail on Sunday today.
03:06I have emails from somebody who sent me a plan of her own idea for a film, transcripts,
03:13the scripts and everything, which looked very, very similar to Pearl.
03:18This lady, I can say this now, this lady sent it to Meghan and her team at Archwell and never heard back.
03:26And then suddenly the sort of brief of Pearl came out.
03:30And this lady who I spoke to said, goodness me, that's pretty uncanny.
03:35Well, it had the same title, Ben, if you remember.
03:38You know, both books are called Pearl.
03:40No, this is this is a massive surprise to me.
03:43I'm going to have to check my emails and get this story back out.
03:45But yeah, I've been sitting on this story for a long, long time.
03:48And the lady didn't want to carry through.
03:50She didn't want to do the story, basically.
03:52She didn't want to upset Meghan, didn't want to upset Archwell.
03:54And it's just been sat in my inbox for a couple of years.
03:57But I've got the transcripts still.
03:58Maybe we can regurgitate it next week.
04:00I'm really keen to see the mail on Sunday now.
04:02It's interesting.
04:04Yeah, you missed a scoop, Ben.
04:05Yeah, well, I tried.
04:06I tried.
04:07It was a big one.
04:08I was working on it for a while.
04:09Tell us about the Easter Sunday service.
04:12William and Catherine missed it, didn't they?
04:14Why did they miss the Easter sort of, I'd say, celebrations, but commemorations?
04:20Well, I'll give you William's version and my take.
04:24My take begins with Prince Andrew.
04:27So Prince Andrew was in Windsor with the rest of the family.
04:30But William chose to stay in Norfolk and be with his family and not walk into the church
04:36with Prince Andrew.
04:38I mean, of course, William would say, well, I just want to be, you know, with my kids.
04:42It's their Easter holidays.
04:44I personally think if he wanted to put on a show of unity for his uncle, then he could
04:49have made the effort.
04:49He could have flown in by chopper.
04:51But clearly, he doesn't want to be seen walking into church with his uncle.
04:56And in September 2024, William, after much wrangling behind the scenes and a bit of a
05:02mistake, essentially, got pictured driving to church with his uncle and was apparently
05:07very, very furious about this.
05:09I believe he doesn't want a repeat of this at the moment because we all know that Andrew
05:13is murdered in controversy.
05:16So, you know, of course, he wants to be in Norfolk.
05:18It's Amna Hall is where they spend Easter and it's William's sanctuary with Catherine.
05:22But if he wanted to, he probably could have shown up at Windsor Castle, Windsor Easter
05:29church service today, but he chose not to.
05:32Carla, it's been fascinating speaking to you.
05:34I am frantically Googling the mail on Sunday story to see if I can get some more detail
05:39on Pearl.
05:40I wonder if Harry and Meghan have longed together in this world and all the signs are there.
05:46And as I said, Tom Bauer, hugely respected author.
05:48So...