Aangirfan: William & Kate

Monday 30 October 2023

William, Kate Middleton struggle to upkeep façade of ‘crumbling’ marriage

William, Kate Middleton struggle to upkeep façade of ' ...

At 30 October 2023 at 05:23 , Anonymous said...: Kate, the 'plastic princess'

“The award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel has [described] the Duchess of Cambridge as a ‘shop-window mannequin’ with no personality whose only purpose is to breed …

“Mantel said: ‘Kate seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character.

"’She appears precision-made, machine-made …’

“Mantel … said she saw Kate becoming a ‘jointed doll on which certain rags are hung’.

“She added: ‘In those days [Kate] was a shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore …’”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/19/kate-duchess-cambridge-hilary-mantel