British Royal Female Bodies – How Hilary Mantel Lit Up the Media

In a speech given at the British Museum, Brooker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel, comments on the way that the British Monarchy suppresses and the media interprets its women: (glamorously) seen but not heard and largely unknown.  Athough her perceptive statements about “their Kate” were savagely criticised by all forms of the media and by the Prime Minister himself, sales of her books reportedly soared.  After a few days, more rational analysis prevailed including this one by Donna-Marie Bohan on politics.co.uk  (25 Feb) at http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2013/02/25/comment-team-mantel-or-team-middleton-the-real-issue-is-the   WfaAR applauds Hilary Mantel as a woman who speaks her mind and expresses her own opinions in the public domain in whatever voice and form she chooses.  She is 100 percent correct about the British monarchy, reinforcing how unsuitable they are to provide the Australian monarch. Click on the link below to access Hilary Mantel’s original article published in the London Review of Books.

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