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| Her highness (left) and Ms Mantel |
Celebrated author Hilary Mantel has has launched a withering attack on the Duchess of Cambridge, the pregnant wife of Prince William, branding her a “shop-window mannequin” with a plastic smile whose only role in life is to breed. The remarks have scandalized Britain with the Prime Minister, David Cameron, taking time on a visit to India to say that Mantel is “misguided” for comparing Kate Middleton to a “machine made” doll, devoid of personality. Some have defended Mantel saying her words had been taken out of context from a long analysis of society’s centuries-old obsession with the appearance and fertility of royal wives that ended with a plea to “back off and not be brutes” to them. “I saw Kate becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung,” Mantel said in a lecture at the British Museum in London earlier this month in which she spoke about her changing view of the princess.
