These comments were met with backlash, including from then-prime minister David Cameron. In a lecture she gave in 2013, titled “Royal Bodies”, Mantel caused controversy when she described the then-Duchess of Cambridge as a “plastic princess”. Mantel was known for her views on the royal family and once made headlines for suggesting the monarchy could be facing “the endgame”, and may not “outlast William”. She was awarded a CBE in the 2006 Birthday Honours and made a dame in 2014.
Hilary Mantel pictured in March 2020 (Getty) She later said that leaving Jeddah felt like “the happiest day of life”. It was while living in Saudi Arabia that she published her first novel, Every Day is Mother’s Day, in 1985. However, the universe is not limited by what I can imagine.”īorn in Derbyshire, Mantel studied at the London School of Economics before living and working in Botswana and Saudi Arabia.
In an interview earlier this month, Mantel was asked whether she believes in an afterlife, to which she replied: “Yes. It was created with actor Ben Miles and his photographer brother, George. Mantel published a new photography book, The Wolf Hall Picture Book, just this month. The third instalment of the trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was released in 2020 and was longlisted for the Booker Prize that year.
Mantel was the first woman and fourth person to receive the award twice, following in the footsteps of JM Coetzee, Peter Carey and JG Farrell. The first book, Wolf Hall, and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, won the Booker Prize in 20, respectively. The books in the trilogy are fictional accounts of the life of Thomas Cromwell and his rise to power in Henry VIII’s court. Her Wolf Hall trilogy has been translated into 41 languages and sold more than five million copies worldwide.
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