Howls of outrage greeted a speech in 2013 by Dame Hilary Mantel in which she described Kate Middleton as “a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung”.
Howls of outrage always seem to greet Mantel when, every few years, one of our greatest novelists emerges from her study. It happened again in 2014 when she wrote a short story called The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, not a tactful title.
