Hilary Mantel defends calling Kate Middleton a “shop-window mannequin”

Two-time Man Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel has defended comments she made in which she called the Duchess of Cambridge a "a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung" and  "a shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own." Though the comments were framed within a larger lecture around the media's portrayal of Royal figures, the quotes sparked outrage across England, causing even Prime Minister David Cameron to call Mantel  "completely misguided."