Tony Blair's account of what was said when he went to kiss hands with the Queen in 1997 has led to accusations of plagiarism. Screenwriter Peter Morgan suspects the former prime minister took a line for his memoirs, A Journey, not from his actual conversation with the Queen, but the Oscar-winning film about her starring Helen Mirren. In his memoirs, Blair claims that the Queen said to him: "You are my tenth prime minister. The first was Winston. That was before you were born." In Morgan's script to the 2006 film The Queen, the Queen tells Blair: "You are my tenth prime minister, Mr Blair. My first was Winston Churchill." Morgan insists he made up those lines. "Either I guessed absolutely perfectly, which is highly unlikely, or Blair decided to endorse what I imagined as the official line, or he had one gin and tonic too many and confused the scene in the film with what had actually happened, and this I find amusing because he always insisted he had never even seen the film," Morgan surmised. Stephen Frears, who directed The Queen, laughed when told of the coincidence. "Now people will accuse us of bugging them," he said.
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