David Cameron has condemned the author Hilary Mantel after she called the Duchess of Cambridge a "plastic princess" with no personality.
The Prime Minister said the comments by the double Man Booker Prize winner were "completely misguided and completely wrong".
He spoke out during a trip to India as Kate, who is now more than four months pregnant, made a solo visit to an addiction charity in London.
During a lecture, Mantel, 60, suggested the "painfully thin" royal had been picked to be a princess because she posed no risk of showing any character.
The author of bestsellers Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, claimed she was like a "doll" or a "shop-window mannequin".
Kate on a visit to a treatment centre in London on Tuesday Kate appeared to have been "gloss-varnished" with a perfect smile in comparison to Princess Diana, who was awkward and emotional, she said.
Mantel said: "I saw Kate becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung. In those days she was a shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore.
"These days she is a mother-to-be, and draped in another set of threadbare attributions. Once she gets over being sick, the press will find that she is radiant.
"They will find that this young woman's life until now was nothing, her only point and purpose being to give birth."
She continued: "Kate Middleton appeared to have been designed by committee and built by craftsmen, with a perfect plastic smile and the spindles of her limbs hand-turned and gloss varnished.
"Kate seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character.
"She appears precision-made, machine-made, so different from Diana whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture."
The author called Kate's eyes in her official portrait "dead" Mantel also compared Kate to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife who was beheaded for treason, who she called a "power player, a clever and determined woman".
And she blasted Kate's first official portrait, calling the Duchess' eyes "dead" and saying she wore "the strained smile of a woman who really wants to tell the painter to b******* off".
The lecture for the London Review of Books was given on February 4, but the full version of the speech will be published in the latest edition of the review on Thursday.
Mr Cameron, during a three-day trip to India, recognised that Mantel "writes great books" but dismissed her controversial comments as "misguided".
"What I've seen of 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," he said.
"We should be proud of that, rather than make these rather misguided remarks."
Mantel said Kate was "so different" to Princess Diana Kate was also defended by Action On Addiction boss Nick Barton before her visit to the charity's Hope House centre in London, which helps recovering addicts.
He said: "I speak of what I know - somebody who wants to help, is helpful and genuinely interested and is intelligent.
"I've met her several times and I found her to be engaging, I found her very natural, I found her actually genuinely interested in the subject.
"You can tell a lot from people's questions and she asks really good questions. They're not routine stuff, they're questions of someone who wants to learn. I find her very easy to deal with."
Well-wishers gathered outside to see the Duchess also felt the comments were unfair.
Sophie Bradbury, 36, said: "I don't think anyone who doesn't know her personally can comment like that. I just wish her all the best for her pregnancy.
"Being pregnant, especially for the first time, is very difficult, and it must be even harder for her with her role."
Another bystander, called Morag, added: "I think she's really natural and absolutely stunning. I think she's just like any ordinary girl, another one of us, and we can identify with her."
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