Yes, beauty and is skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone. Hilary Mantel should know.

Hilary Mantel takes steroids for an illness and that has wreaked havoc with her appearance. Poor dear. But that doesn´t excuse her nastiness toward Duchess Kate, who seems a kind young woman. Ignore the mean girl, Kate.

And Hilary - I tried to read Wolf Hall. I did not succeed.

I tried to read Mantel and found her to be windy. Meh.

No wonder she is fixated on the Duchess´s smile. Look at those ugly yellow teeth. She´s sort of a Hillary look-alike.

No medication did this. Hillary has fame and acclaim but hates her mirror so lashes out at beautiful young Kate:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/Hilary-Mantel-Booker.jpg

And yes, I guess Hilary would think Kate was "painfully thin":

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/16/1350413532110/Hilary-Mantel-010.jpg

Here´s why she could be jealous of a young woman who can bear children:

During her twenties, Mantel suffered from a debilitating and painful illness. She was initially diagnosed with a psychiatric illness, hospitalised, and treated with antipsychotic drugs. These drugs paradoxically produced psychotic symptoms, and as a consequence, Mantel refrained from seeking help from doctors for some years. Finally, in Botswana and desperate, she consulted a medical textbook and realised she was probably suffering from a severe form of endometriosis, a diagnosis confirmed by doctors in London. The condition and necessary surgery left her unable to have children and continued to disrupt her life. Continued treatment by steroids caused weight gain and radically changed her appearance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Mantel

A read of her bio reveals she´s had a lot of physical and mental problems. An unhappy woman, lashing out.

Mantel should stuff a sock in it! Kate is beautiful, elegant, classy and most importantly clearly in love with William.

They represent the proper order of things, fall in love, get married and then have a baby that you raise together.

And there is nothing wrong with calling it a baby bump! It´s been called that for years affectionately by pregnant women.

Hilary who?

I, too, hate the word, baby bump. Sounds so trivial and slick.

Now about that old heifer, Mantel. She has to be ´insanely jealous´ of Kate to go on about her this way. Kate is a beautiful woman and some women can´t handle it.

And Ms. Mantel - Jealousy and envy are extremely unattractive traits - especially so in you. Try to get over it because if your attitude continues and gets worse, it´s only going to cause you greater pain and ridicule. You sound and appear to be a hate-filled old bag. For your sake, don´t make it any worse.

Hey, chick - don´t mess with our Kate. And thanks to others for saving me the trouble of trying to read any of this silly woman´s books.

The English have such important things to discuss in their papers. But wait - we have TMZ!

The british media is notoriously ugly.

They bashed Fergie for being too plump, now they´re whining about this beautiful young woman as being too plastic.

All the msm is alike. Hate ridden to the core of their soul.

Who are these hags? First Vivienne Westwood and now Hilary Mantel. Brit-on-Brit jealousy of a younger, prettier woman who has caused no offense whatsoever.

You can see where Shakespeare got the idea for his MacBeth witches.

Mantel´s heroine, Anne Boleyn, "was a power player"? If so, once she had bagged herself a king, she played ineptly, and lost badly. Boleyn lost everything, including her head, if the history I was taught is correct.
Mantel might reconsider: The Duchess has so far (over the last ten years or so) shown herself to be a far more subtle and shrewder player than either Boleyn or Diana.

Poor Diana, despite the "star quality" that made her queen of the popular press, was too crippled by her own neuroses and insecurities to ever get beyond the first quarter of the game.

I think she´s beautiful. Others should put down the doughnuts.

Thank You #8 you said what I wanted to say,and you said it well.

Considering that she had to spend time in the hospital with such severe morning sickness during the first trimester, the Duchess is looking wonderful. Plus, she is a tall young lady so she has more room for baby expansion than us short gals.

As to the author, as well read as I am on English monarchal history, I have never heard of this woman. I will avoid her rantings in the future should I run across them at the library.

Kate is lucious - and so is Pippa.
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Kate is such a sweet thing. William and Kate will save the monarchy. If the Brits ever crown poor dopey Charlie as king and that wretched Camille, I think it is over for them. Their only hope is with this bright young William and Kate.

Does being "painfully thin" make her plastic? I don´t get the connection. I think Kate seems like a warm and "real" person. She is the best thing to happen to the Royals in years. If she is in fact "painfully thin, that seems to me to be more a cause for worry than criticism.
(As an aside, if she were "too thin," she probably would not have been able to get pregnant).

Clearly, Kate is painfully thin compared to Hillar who hasn´t seen her feet for some time.