Not exactly joined up thinking, Hilary...

I agree with Chewbacca. I didn't know who she was when I first tuned into the interview. Her comments about racism towards Meghan just sort of hung in the air with no further explanation or challenge by the interviewer.

As for comments on Kate's figure and dress sense, well! Ms Mantel chooses to wear that she likes and Kate does the same. I didn't like what she was wearing, but she has a right to dress as she pleases and so does Kate. We're all jointed humans of one shape or another. I found her very offensive.

Spot on Davidhs

And it’s not Meghan who is disliked, it’s the things Meghan has done. And continues to do

Absolutely agree with that (although I’d add Harry to that too)

Exactly Chewbacca.

nothing to do with race even though it appears that's what she'd like us to believe.

That's because it's the easiest way to get critics to back off, rather than address the way she's behaved.

Davidhs
Good for you, you tell it as it is.

No, racism isn't a game Greymar, the criticism M's been receiving has nothing to do with race even though it appears that's what she'd like us to believe.

Annie
You are right, if Meghan is not liked and it’s not racism, what is it then? Then we have to conclude that it’s her behaviour. And it’s not Meghan who is disliked, it’s the things Meghan has done. And continues to do.

Racism is rubbish, the Royal family that she married into has bent over backwards to accommodate her at the cost of many millions but she wanted more.

You got it at last Greymare

It'll be interesting to watch the new Spitting Image series when it starts soon. The puppets of M & H are already completed. I wonder whether their will be an outcry of unfair bias then too?

Let me wrap my head around this, M is unpopular because she is a money grabbing nasty pece of work. Rather than face up to this unplatable fact, some people latch onto racism as a sort of lazy way to explain her behaviour and that of her husband?

I did think of Hillary Clinton too and thought Rosina had spelt it the normal way, not like the surname.

Why oh why do people persist in using that stupid phrase?

Racism isn't a game, it isn't a card to be put down?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/16/playing-the-race-card-racism-black-experience

If racism isn’t used they are left with the truth as to why Megan is unpopular, so they choose to play the race card

Good point, Callistemon! I’d just been reading about Super Tuesday, so she was on my mind even though she’s not running.

Apologies again SirChenjin!

SueDonim I think that Ms Clinton is Hillary with a double ell! Like Anne with an ee, it matters.

I watched the Mantel interview and, to be honest, I thought that she just waffled on and on and on..... She made the statement about racism being a factor but she failed to give any reasons or logic as to how she'd come to her conclusion. I just dismissed her as being an author trying to flog her next book.

Seems Hilary Mantel can criticise others for things they supposedly said but its ok for her to be extremely rude about the Duchess of Cambridge. Double standards ?

The woman writes fiction and is a republican,

I’ve just had a quick look online and I see she possesses quite a barbed pen. I think I shall file her opinions under ‘ignore’.

No Namsnanny I genuinely don’t know! I was being very lazy by not googling but was sitting in the car waiting for my son who was just about to finish his rugby training and didn’t have time.

I’m now wondering what my sense of humour is perceived to be...!

I agree Greymar.

I thought this was going to be a thread about Hilary Clinton and the American presidential elections!