The Queen Consort has made a cheeky dig at controversial “sensitivity” changes to Roald Dahl’s popular books while hosting some of Britain’s most esteemed authors.
The 75-year-old’s remarks follow controversial language changes to many of Roald Dahl’s popular children’s books after the publisher brought in “sensitivity readers”.
The assembled authors allegedly laughed and responded “hear, hear” and the Queen Consort added, “Enough said.” Last week, Dahl’s publisher Puffin announced that several of the legendary author’s books would be amended to remove outdated and offensive language. In the 1983 novel The Witches, Dahl describes that witches are bald beneath their wigs. Forty years later, a new line has been added to the book which reads, “There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that."References to character Augustus Gloop as “fat” have been removed, while Oompa Loompas are no longer referred to as “little men” in favour of “little people”.
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