Fatal Non-Readers

Hilary Mantel

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In June this year the BBC showed a documentary called Diana’s Dresses. It was about the auction which took place at Christie’s in New York two months before the Princess’s descent into the Paris underpass. The purchasers spoke reverentially of Diana when she was alive, but her death turned glad rags into relics. ‘I wanted to have a part of royalty,’ one explained. ‘I am in awe of the dress,’ said another.

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Vol. 21 No. 19 · 30 September 1999 » Hilary Mantel » Fatal Non-Readers (print version)
Pages 28-30 | 3905 words