A children’s author has dismissed claims that Meghan Markle copied her work with her newly announced children’s story, The Bench. The duchess announced on 4 May that she was publishing a children’s book based on a poem she had written for Prince Harry shortly after the birth of their son, Archie, in 2019. But the book was trolled by some critics who claimed that she had copied Corrinne Averiss’s The Boy On The Bench in both its cover and.