Hilary Mantel defends Kate comments as she receives damehood from Prince Charles

Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel has attacked media for taking her comments about the Duchess of Cambridge "out of context" after she was made a dame at Buckingham Palace today.

Speaking after the investiture ceremony led by Prince Charles, Mantel said her 2013 lecture referring to Kate as a "shop window mannequin" had been spun by the media, something she said the Palace understood.

"I certainly was [misrepresented], yes," she told ITV News Correspondent Duncan Golestani. "Two sentences taken out of an hour-long lecture and the meaning turned around 100%."

The award-winning author, now Dame Hilary, said Charles had told her during the ceremony that he was "very much" enjoying the TV adaptation of her book Wolf Hall.

On her writing, Mantel said she planned soon to start work on the final novel in the Cromwell series - with the hope that it too would be adapted for television.

She added that she felt the public was responding well to the current series, which features a stellar cast including Damian Lewis, Claire Foy and Jonathan Pryce.