The Duchess of Sussex just can't catch a break - after a series of high-profile missteps and cancelled projects, she has now been accused of plagiarising a Majorcan town’s coat of arms. This week, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, announced the relaunch of her lifestyle brand, , revealing via Instagram that it would now be known as "As Ever." The original brand faced regulatory hurdles when Meghan attempted to trademark the company's name last summer.
The application was rejected in August due to filing issues, with officials ruling that she could not claim exclusive rights to American Riviera - a widely used term for the Californian region where she and Prince Harry reside in Santa Barbara. Now, the former Suits actress' newly rebranded "As Ever" has already been hit with controversy - this time from Spain. The mayor of Porreres, a town in the Spanish island of Majorca, has accused Meghan's company of copying their historic coat of arms in its logo, which features a palm tree and two birds.
“We don’t want our coat of arms to be perverted because it belongs exclusively to Porreres. The only difference with their logo and our coat of arms is that theirs shows two hummingbirds and in ours are either swallows or pigeons - historians cannot agree," Francisca Mora Veny, the mayor of Porreres, told The Sun newspaper. She added: "We will ask Meghan to remove the logo from their website.
” Local reports also indicate that Porreres officials are considering legal action. The "As E.