The pregnant Duchess of Cambridge - better known to many as Kate Middleton - is believed to be in the ninth week of her second pregnancy, is once again experiencing the severe morning sickness that blighted her pregnancy with Prince George.
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And now, in an interview with Newsweek magazine, outspoken feminist author Germaine Greer has implied the Duchess has been pressured into falling pregnant again and that she is "too thin".
She said: "Meanwhile, she is vomiting her guts up and shouldn't have been made to go through all this again so soon.
"It's not so much that she has to be a womb, but she has to be a mother. I would hope after this one she says, 'That's it. No more'."
"The girl is too thin." she said.
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Greer conceded Kate, who was awarded a 2:1 honours degree in art history at the University of St Andrews and is a patron of the National Portrait Gallery, is “a great deal more intelligent than the rest of the royals”.
But the 75-year-old added that the Duchess is “made to appear absolutely” bland, insisting: “Kate is not even allowed to decorate her own houses. Even the wives of the American presidents get to do that.
“The whole thing is a mad anachronism. The ‘firm’ tell us that the first born will now become monarch regardless of sex. Well, big ******* deal!"
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“She [Kate] cannot do or say anything spontaneous. She has learned what she has to do and say and how to do and say it in the approved way. Spontaneity will get her in trouble.”
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