Mantel: 'Machine-made' Middleton 'defined by what she wore'

Award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel has attacked the Duchess of Cambridge as a “shop-window mannequin” with no personality, whose only purpose is to breed.

During a lecture at the British Museum, the double Booker Prize winner criticised Kate as appearing to have been “gloss-varnished” with a perfect plastic smile in contrast to Princess Diana, who she described as awkward and emotionally incontinent.