“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 …’”
Kate, the 'plastic princess'
ReplyDelete“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