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  3. Hilary Mantel Speech Dissects Royal Bodies

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  4. Mantel's Speech On Duchess Causes A Storm

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  5. Mantel's Speech On Duchess Causes A Storm

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  6. George di Cambridge non sarà mai re: lo dice Hilary Mantel

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  1. Kate speech, hate speech and Hilary Mantel's dissection of Royal Bodies

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  2. Hilary Mantel on Duchess of Cambridge's 'perfect plastic smile'

    Extracts from a speech in which Hilary Mantel made observations about the Duchess of Cambridge, played on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

  3. Hilary Mantel · Royal Bodies

    Some of Hilary Mantel's assertions about the two daughters of Henry VIII reiterate the conventional but increasingly suspect dichotomy between them (Letters, 11 April).Although an ambassador's report did describe Mary as 'not tall', that does not endorse Mantel's view of her as an 'undergrown child', and I am unaware of any evidence that does.

  4. Listen to Hilary Mantel's Duchess of Cambridge speech

    Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel has branded the Duchess of Cambridge a "shop window mannequin" with no personality, whose only purpose is to breed. Her comments were made as part of London ...

  5. Mantel's Speech On Duchess Causes A Storm

    Mantel's Speech On Duchess Causes A Storm Hilary Mantel's speech on the public's relationship with royalty has been branded an attack on the Duchess of Cambridge. Tuesday 19 February 2013 01:03, UK

  6. Hilary Mantel: I've nothing to apologise for over 'plastic princess'

    Novelist Hilary Mantel has insisted she has nothing to apologise for after describing the Duchess of Cambridge as "a shop-window mannequin with no personality of her own".

  7. David Cameron criticises Hilary Mantel over Duchess of Cambridge speech

    David Cameron has criticised Hilary Mantel as "completely misguided and completely wrong" after the Booker prize-winning author described the Duchess of Cambridge as a "plastic" princess.

  8. Book News: Hilary Mantel Has 'No Regrets' About Kate Middleton ...

    Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel is defending widely criticized comments she made in a speech earlier this year in which she compared Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton to a "jointed ...

  9. Author Hilary Mantel defends Kate Middleton comments

    Mantel, who won the Costa Book of the Year Award for Bring Up The Bodies. added: "I do think that the Duchess of Cambridge is an intelligent young woman who, if she cares to read my essay, will ...

  10. Hilary Mantel: 'Monarchy is a trap

    As her novel The Mirror and the Light hits the stage, Hilary Mantel talks breaks with Europe, Afghanistan and why there is still mileage in Thomas Cromwell ... When she spoke about the Duchess of ...

  11. Kate Middleton 'crafted by committee' says author supporting Mantel speech

    The British tabloids have adopted a stance of outrage after author Hilary Mantel, in a speech on 'Royal Bodies', said that the Duchess of Cambridge's role is primarily to give birth. Mantel's ...

  12. Hilary Mantel attacks 'bland, plastic, machine-made' Duchess of

    Hilary Mantel has called the Duchess of Cambridge a bland, ... Whilst Ms Mantel's speech was "brilliantly written," Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, said she was being ...

  13. 'I was set up as a hate figure': Hilary Mantel defends criticism of

    Award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel ... "My lecture and the subsequent essay was actually supportive of the Royal Family and when I used those words about the Duchess of Cambridge, I was ...

  14. Hilary Mantel wasn't attacking the Duchess of Cambridge

    The Duchess of Cambridge and Mantel are included in the 100 most influential people ... Hilary Mantel writes about historic royalty in its full, ugly glory. ... But Mantel's speech is not the ...

  15. Hilary Mantel stands by her criticism of Duchess of Cambridge's

    Hilary Mantel, the award-winning author, says she stands by controversial remarks she made last year about the Duchess of Cambridge By Nicola Fifield 16 May 2014 • 11:49pm

  16. Hilary Mantel vs Kate Middleton

    The British tabloids have adopted a stance of outrage after author Hilary Mantel, in a speech on 'Royal Bodies', said that the Duchess of Cambridge's role - as ordained by the royal family - is ...

  17. Hilary Mantel

    Dame Hilary Mary Mantel DBE FRSL (/ m æ n ˈ t ɛ l / man-TEL; born Thompson; 6 July 1952 - 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985.She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a personal memoir, and numerous articles and ...

  18. Dame Hilary Mantel dies aged 70 leaving behind unfinished novel

    Dame Hilary was unafraid of controversy, and in 2013 was criticised for giving a lecture in which she likened the Duchess of Cambridge to "a shop-window mannequin" and "a jointed doll on ...

  19. Hilary Mantel vs Kate 'controversy': No reading required

    Lakshmi Chaudhry February 20, 2013, 13:38:55 IST. The controversy surrounding the Booker prize novelist's speech reveals far more about the act of reading than the Duchess of Cambridge. What we read, how we read, and who decides the same. Advertisement. The maelstrom of outrage sparked by Hilary Mantel's remarks on Britain's most beloved ...

  20. Hilary Mantel portrays Duchess of Cambridge as a 'shop ...

    Hilary Mantel, the award-winning author, has been accused of making "incredibly unkind" comments after she described the Duchess of Cambridge as "painfully thin", a "shop window ...

  21. Statues of military figures could be removed from square

    Statues of military figures could be removed from a Glasgow square over their links to slavery. The council launched a review of public artwork following Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, and a ...

  22. Heroism of RAF medic Richard Rycroft who landed on D-Day's bloodiest

    Heroism of RAF medic who landed on D-Day's bloodiest beach 'by mistake' Flt Lt Richard Rycroft was the only doctor on Omaha Beach on June 6 fearlessly attending to wounded soldiers while ...

  23. Two years into the full-scale invasion, how is Ukraine's economy faring?

    David is Head of Audio Development at The Telegraph, where he has worked for over three years. He has reported from across Ukraine during the full-scale invasion. Dominic Nicholls. Dom is ...