Kate, Duchess of Cambridge: Mannequin or Role Model?

Award-winning British author Hilary Mantel has caused a firestorm in Britain with comments she made about Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge.

Mantel compared the Duchess to a ‘shop-window mannequin’.

The World’s Alex Gallafent reports on the context in which Mantel’s words were framed: a critique of hereditary monarchy.

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