By Jessica Green For Mailonline
Published: 13:17 BST, 22 April 2019 | Updated: 13:17 BST, 22 April 2019
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She's the 16-year-old schoolgirl who inspired a series of classroom walkouts when her message for faster action on climate change spread from Sweden across the continent.
But while Greta Thunberg spoke to an animated crowd of Existence Rebellion demonstrators at Marble Arch, London, yesterday, reports emerged claiming the teenager's rise to fame was more orchestrated than first thought.
Six months ago an unknown 15-year-old Miss Thunberg camped outside Sweden's parliament next to a hand-written sign that read 'Skolstrejk för Klimatet' (School strike for the climate).
Activist Greta Thunberg addresses hundreds of Extinction Rebellion during a rally at Marble Arch on day seven of protest action
Reports claim the Swedish teenager's rise to fame is more orchestrated than first thought, with both PR consultant Ingmar Rentzhog (left) and her mother well known opera singer Malena Ernman (right) helping her find fame
Miss Thunberg skipped school every Friday to sit on the steps of the Riksdag and soon became a global success following her first TED talk - which now has more than a million views.
But doubts have been raised as to whether the teenager's newfound shift into the spotlight is really the creation of a carefully laid out public relations campaign.
PR consultant Ingmar Rentzhog's We Don’t Have Time climate change PR agency used Miss Thunberg's image to gain funds for his firm, according to The Spectator.
But the publication said the teenager's family deny being aware that she would be used in this way, and have since cut ties with Mr Rentzhog’s organisation.
Miss Thunberg said: 'I was briefly a youth adviser for the board of the non profit foundation We