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Germaine Greer has slammed Princess Diana in a brutal TV interview in which she calls her the "worst f**k in the country".

The Australian author goes on to say that Diana, who was tragically killed in a car crash 20 years ago, would have been dumped by "40 or 50" men by now.

During an appearance on Sam Delaney's News Thing, which is set to air on channel RT UK tomorrow night, the feminist also says that we wouldn't like the Princess of Wales if she was still alive today.

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Host Sam says: "Germaine, if Diana was still alive today, would she just be one of these people eating kangaroo penis on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here?"

She responds: "I expect not actually, but it's interesting to think would we still like her if she was 56? And I think we probably wouldn't, we didn't even like the Queen when she was 56. We don't like middle-aged women very much. How would Diana have middle-aged?

"I mean, what would the tally be of the men who had dumped her by that stage? It would be 40 or 50 probably. Worst f**k in the country, by all accounts."

Sam asks: "Is that right? I didn't know that. Is that what the gossip is?"

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"Well you've got to move in special circles to be told this kind of thing," Germaine responds.

Sam then asks Germaine if she thinks Diana was a good role model to young women in this country and whether or not she could be called a feminist icon.

Germaine laughs: "No."

She goes on: "She was too dependent on the love of men, I think. And she was prepared to humiliate herself to get it and she blew it every time. I think she just didn't understand that neediness is not sexy and that's probably what went wrong.

"I mean, it's such a catalogue of disasters and your heart does ache for her and to end up with Dodi Al Fayed, or Dodi Fayed as the Egyptians prefer to call him, that was just the wrong end of the upward spiral, you might think."

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The men on the panel went on to say they found Diana attractive because she was "vulnerable" and "seemed obtainable".

Germaine went on to talk about how her Godchildren used to like to pretend they were princes and princesses, but that she would tell them off for it.

She said: "I used to give them a lecture about how every princess they could think of was terribly, terribly sad, and that includes especially, Princesses of Wales.

"If you look at the history of Princesses of Wales, it's a disaster course every inch of the way."

She also said Prince Charles was "married to a woman he wasn't in love with and who he didn't like."

* The full interview goes out on RT UK on Saturday, September 2 at 10.25pm