“I saw Kate becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung, 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, so different from Diana. She was a shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore. These days she is a mother-to-be, and draped in another set of threadbare attributions. Once she gets over being sick, the press will find that she is radiant. They will find that this young woman’s life until now was nothing, her only point and purpose being to give birth.” – Two-time Man Booker Prize winner (and style goddess) Hilary Mantel on the Duchess of Cambridge, at a recent lecture at the British Museum in London. (via the CS Monitor)