Hilary Mantel
TALKING POLITICS
The King's Reproductive Powers
The subject of the monarch's reproductive powers is a folk belief. Ad henry: Our private difficulties, private tragedies are writ large in the public sphere. There is a mystery about femininity and its power that the men in the rain can't solve. The virgins, the statues of mary all over england, are being pulled down and defaced. And we will have elizabeth the virgin queen as a sort of reassertion of those frozen, fallen idols.
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