Double Booker Prize winner, Hilary Mantel\u00a0 whose latest books are set in the Tudor court, has described Kate Middleton\u00a0 as a \u2018machine-made\u2019 princess, \u2018designed by committee\u2019<\/p>\n
She said the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge\u00a0 had gone from being a \u2018jointed doll on which certain rags are hung\u2019 to a woman whose \u2018only point and purpose\u2019 was to give birth.<\/p>\n
Mantel said Kate \u2018appeared to have been designed by a committee and built by craftsmen, with a perfect plastic smile and the spindles of her limbs hand-turned and gloss-varnished\u2019.<\/p>\n
She said Kate had gone from being a \u2018jointed doll on which certain rags are hung\u2019 to a woman whose \u2018only point and purpose\u2019 was to give birth.<\/p>\n
Mantel said Kate \u2018appeared to have been designed by a committee and built by craftsmen, with a perfect plastic smile and the spindles of her limbs hand-turned and gloss-varnished\u2019.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister David Cameron said Mantel’s comments were ‘misguided’<\/p>\n
Now David Cameron, while on a trip to India, has reportedly waded into the row to support the pregnant Duchess.<\/p>\n
He said that Hilary Martel is ‘a great writer’ but described her comments on Kate as ‘a hurtful thing to say’, according to reports.<\/p>\n
He described the comments about the Duchess of Cambridge as ‘completely misguided and completely wrong’.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister told the BBC: ‘What I’ve seen of Princess Kate at public events, at the Olympics and elsewhere is this is someone who’s bright, who’s engaging, who’s a fantastic ambassador for Britain.<\/p>\n
‘We should be proud of that, rather than make these rather misguided remarks.’<\/p>\n
The head of a charity supported by the Duchess of Cambridge has hit back at Hilary Mantel\u2019s extraordinary attack on her, saying she is an ‘intelligent’ woman who is proving to\u00a0 be a huge asset to the causes she backs.<\/p>\n
Nick Barton, chief executive of Action on Addiction, said the Booker prize-winning author was entirely wrong to characterise the Duchess as a clothes horse whose only purpose was to give birth.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of a visit by the Duchess to Hope House, an addiction recovery centre for women in Clapham, south London, Mr Barton said: ‘I can only speak of what I know, and having met the Duchess several times I find her to be engaging, natural and genuinely interested in the subject.<\/p>\n
‘You can tell a lot about someone from the questions they ask and she asks really good questions, the questions of someone who wants to learn. She is also an intelligent woman.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister David Cameron said Mantel’s comments were ‘misguided’<\/p>\n
Now David Cameron, while on a trip to India, has reportedly waded into the row to support the pregnant Duchess.<\/p>\n
Additional report from Mail of London<\/p>\n
He said that Hilary Martel is ‘a great writer’ but described her comments on Kate as ‘a hurtful thing to say’, according to reports.<\/p>\n
He described the comments about the Duchess of Cambridge as ‘completely misguided and completely wrong’.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister told the BBC: ‘What I’ve seen of Princess Kate at public events, at the Olympics and elsewhere is this is someone who’s bright, who’s engaging, who’s a fantastic ambassador for Britain.<\/p>\n
‘We should be proud of that, rather than make these rather misguided remarks.’<\/p>\n
The head of a charity supported by the Duchess of Cambridge has hit back at Hilary Mantel\u2019s extraordinary attack on her, saying she is an ‘intelligent’ woman who is proving to\u00a0 be a huge asset to the causes she backs.<\/p>\n
Nick Barton, chief executive of Action on Addiction, said the Booker prize-winning author was entirely wrong to characterise the Duchess as a clothes horse whose only purpose was to give birth.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of a visit by the Duchess to Hope House, an addiction recovery centre for women in Clapham, south London, Mr Barton said: ‘I can only speak of what I know, and having met the Duchess several times I find her to be engaging, natural and genuinely interested in the subject.<\/p>\n
‘You can tell a lot about someone from the questions they ask and she asks really good questions, the questions of someone who wants to learn. She is also an intelligent woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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