David Cameron has condemned author Hilary Mantel's scathing attack of the Duchess of Cambridge as "completely misguided and completely wrong".
The Prime Minister spoke out during a trip to India after the award-winning novelist claimed Kate appeared to have been "designed by committee".
The double Man Booker Prize winner, who wrote Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, said the royal was like a "doll" with no personality.
Mantel, 60, made the controversial comments and compared Kate to Anne Boleyn, Marie Antoinette and Princess Diana during a lecture to the British Museum.
She said: "It's rather that I saw Kate becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung.
Kate on a visit to a treatment centre in London on Tuesday "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 ... her only point and purpose being to give birth."
She also described the Duchess as having a "perfect plastic smile" and said her first official portrait, unveiled last month, revealed "her eyes are dead and she wears 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 her speech will be published in the latest edition of the review on Thursday.
Kate's first official portrait went on display last month Mantel, author of Thomas Cromwell novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, said Kate was not like Anne Boleyn who was a "power player, a clever and determined woman".
Her controversial comments came as the Duchess showed off her baby bump for the first time in the UK on a visit to a project for women recovering from substance dependence.
The 31-year-old was greeted by well-wishers as she arrived at Hope House, a project run by Action On Addiction of which she is a patron for what was her first solo engagement of 2013.
The charity's boss Nick Barton insisted Kate was an "intelligent" women who he had found to be "engaging" and interested in the organisation's work.
Asked for his reaction to Mantel's attack, he said: "I don't think it's for me to comment on that kind of stuff. I speak of what I know - somebody who wants to help, is helpful and genuinely interested and is intelligent.
"I can only speak (of) what I know. 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."
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