https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/19/hilary-mantel-interview-short-story-assassination-margaret-thatcher
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/kathy-gyngell-poisonous-hilary-mantel-thatcher-haters-bbc-made/
As I said. A little bit less hatred and poison in the world today then.
And according to David Starkey - he never read her books or the TV adaptations of them, because he is a massive believer in facts.
The first link is about her fictional work to write about a prime minister, in this case Margaret Thatcher, being assassinated. It was never real, but a piece of work of a type that just told about a supposed criminal act, that she would never had carried out. She was a writer, with an imagination, like all fictional novel writers, simple as that.
As for David Starkey, if he has really never read her trilogy of novels about the Tudors, how can he pass constructive judgement. For a scholar, an historian, to say they have never read a piece of work that falls within their specialist subject is very odd and unusual. In the academic world, before you can judge you must read and research to match the facts with any fiction. Especially when in the 16th century there was nothing recorded as we do today, but a series of records based on how the ones who could write wanted to record what they saw as facts. No one knows all the in's and out's of Tudor hierarchy. For instance did Elizabeth 1 have the wife of Robert Dudley killed; did that virgin Queen actually give birth to a child? Questions, questions, and a lot more, that historians will debate until the end of time
We know Thomas Moore quickly rose up in the favour of Henry VIII by impressing him, but then fell dramatically and fatally from grace, all outlined in Wolf's Hall, in perhaps fairly simplistic terms, compared to the complicaticated political matters, including the stubbiness of an absolute monarch, that could fill volumes.
Let's not condemn though the late Dame Hilary just because of David Starkey's opinion.Let's face it she still became a Dame because others, equally qualified, thought differently
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