Germaine Greer on Duchess of Cambridge with 'b*****d of a job': 'It's not that she has to be a womb, but a mother'

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Duchess of Cambridge is “too thin” and should stop being “a womb” for the royal family, famed feminist Germaine Greer has said. In typically controversial fashion, the Australian academic dismissed the royal’s decision to expand her family with a second baby because she suffers from hyperemesis gravidarum, and isn’t physically strong enough to be “made” to go through pregnancy again. open image in gallery Germaine Greer became a household name with the publication of ‘The Female Eunuch' “The whole thing is a mad anachronism. Spontaneity will get her in trouble.” Furthermore, Greer claimed that with the her 2:1 degree in Art History from St Andrews University, the Duchess was more intelligent than most of the royal family, but is “made to appear absolutely anodyne”.