Kate Middleton is "machine-made" princess, says acclaimed author Hilary Mantel
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Prince William's (left) wife Catherine is pregnant with their first child, St James's Palace said on Dec 3, 2012, in an eagerly awaited announcement about a baby destined to be Britain's future king or queen. Double Booker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel labelled the Duchess of Cambridge a "machine-made" princess "designed by committee". -- FILE PHOTO: AFP
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British author Hilary Mantel, writer of Bring Up The Bodies poses for photographers as she arrives for the 2013 Costa Book Awards in London on Jan 29, 2013. Mantel, 60, also accused the pregnant 31-year-old princess of being a "shop window mannequin" with a "plastic smile". She gave the comments in a lecture, entitled Royal Bodies, on Feb 4 for the London Review Of Books at the British Museum. The lecture will be published in the latest edition of the review on Thursday. -- FILE PHOTO: AFP
Prince William's (left) wife Catherine is pregnant with their first child, St James's Palace said on Dec 3, 2012, in an eagerly awaited announcement about a baby destined to be Britain's future king or queen. Double Booker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel labelled the Duchess of Cambridge a "machine-made" princess "designed by committee". -- FILE PHOTO: AFP
British author Hilary Mantel, writer of Bring Up The Bodies poses for photographers as she arrives for the 2013 Costa Book Awards in London on Jan 29, 2013. Mantel, 60, also accused the pregnant 31-year-old princess of being a "shop window mannequin" with a "plastic smile". She gave the comments in a lecture, entitled Royal Bodies, on Feb 4 for the London Review Of Books at the British Museum. The lecture will be published in the latest edition of the review on Thursday. -- FILE PHOTO: AFP
LONDON (AFP) - Double Booker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel labelled the Duchess of Cambridge a "machine-made" princess "designed by committee".
Mantel, 60, also accused the pregnant 31-year-old princess of being a "shop window mannequin" with a "plastic smile".
She gave the comments in a lecture, entitled Royal Bodies, on Feb 4 for the London Review Of Books at the British Museum. The lecture will be published in the latest edition of the review on Thursday.
She said Kate, 31, had neither the personality of Princess Diana, mother of her husband Prince William, nor the presence of historical heavyweight Anne Boleyn, who features heavily in Mantel's decorated novel Wolf Hall.
