Duchess of Cambridge is Britain's 'Queen Wag' says Human Rights Activist Joan Smith
THE Duchess of Cambridge is one of the best-loved women in the world, but it looks as though human rights activist Joan Smith isn't convinced and has branded her "unambitious" and "bland."
The 59-year-old - who turned down an MBE in 2003 because of her opposition to the Monarchy - has followed in the footsteps of author Hillary Mantel and devoted an entire chapter to the Duchess in her new book The Public Woman.
"By the age of 30, the new Duchess of Cambridge had done little since leaving university except play a supporting role to her boyfriend, marry him with great pomp and ceremony and get pregnant," Smith wrote.
"She had never really enjoyed an independent identity or income - even her clothes were paid for by her father-in-law - and didn't seem to aspire to either.
"Unambitious, uncontroversial and bland, Kate Middleton was Queen Wag in everything but name."
She then went on to claim that the pregnant 30-year-old became famous "not for her achievements but her willingness to play the most traditional feminine role of all: waiting for a husband, getting married and not long afterwards becoming pregnant."
But this isn't the first time that the brunette has come under scrutiny.
Author Hilary Mantel compared the 31-year-old royal to Princess Diana and Marie Antoinette, calling her "plastic" with "dead eyes" and claimed that she is simply a vessel through which the Royal family can breed.