{"id":65939,"date":"2013-02-19T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=65939"},"modified":"2014-01-08T00:26:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T22:26:50","slug":"uk-hilary-mantel-kate-is-a-plastic-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/02\/19\/uk-hilary-mantel-kate-is-a-plastic-princess\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Hilary Mantel: Kate Is A ‘Plastic Princess’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hilary Mantel & Kate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Award winning author Hilary Mantel has launched a scathing attack on the Duchess of Cambridge, describing her as “designed by committee”, in a lecture at the British Museum.<\/p>\n

The 60-year-old author, who won the Man Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012, compared Kate to Anne Boleyn, Marie Antoinette and Princess Diana during the lecture entitled Undressing Anne Boleyn.<\/p>\n

In it, she said: “It’s rather that I saw Kate becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung.<\/p>\n

“In those days she was a shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore.<\/p>\n

“These days she is a mother-to-be, and draped in another set of threadbare attributions … her only point and purpose being to give birth.”<\/p>\n

She also described the Duchess as having a “perfect plastic smile” and said her first official portrait, unveiled last month, revealed “her eyes are dead and she wears the strained smile of a woman who really wants to tell the painter to b***** off”.<\/p>\n

The lecture for the\u00a0London Review of Books\u00a0<\/strong>was given on February 4, but the full version of her speech will be published in the latest edition of the review on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Mantel, author of Thomas Cromwell novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, said Kate was not like Anne Boleyn who was a “power player, a clever and determined woman”.<\/p>\n

It comes as the Duchess will show off her baby bump for the first time when she visits a project for women recovering from substance dependence.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old will visit Hope House, a project run by\u00a0Action On Addiction\u00a0<\/strong>of which she is a patron.<\/p>\n

The engagement in Clapham will be the Duchess’ first solo engagement of 2013.<\/p>\n

St James’ Palace has also announced the details of her next public engagement on March 5 when she will visit the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby.<\/p>\n

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Sky News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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