I’m not a royalist but I love Kate for this..

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I’d love to know what she threatened him with under her breath 😂

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You sound like a brat calling a 4 year old names.

🤣 Your post says so much more about you than it does about a 4 year old kid bored out of his mind ...

It was so funny to watch. I AM a Royalist, and I loved to see Kate and Louis and their interactions. Bet he's a handful at home! Imagine that in front of almost 8 billion people at the QUEEN'S PLATINUM JUBILEE?

Aww, she handled it well, and I am convinced Louis was doing it to Boris Johnson anyway! 😂

Like some people have said, this is very typical 4 y.o. behaviour. People talk about 'the terrible twos' but IMO and IME it was age 4-5 where mine were most challenging. (Not bad but demanding, wouldn't stop talking, kept asking for everything they saw, and just being a bit of a PITA some days.)

Also, as many posters have said, Louis seems to have been quite well behaved for most of the 4 day Jubilee weekend, and OMG he must have been so bored and fed up. Personally, I think it's lovely to see that the Royals are clearly just human!

She didn't allow it. She very clearly gave him a stern telling off. I think she handled it brilliantly, and better than I would have done. I sent the video to DH last night, our DD1 is the same age and we just both laughed in sympathy.

I hope she's not reading the criticism today, and that if she is she isn't taking it to heart.

@Highfivemum

I felt sorry for George more than anyone. He looked so serious in his suit. He is still a little boy and he looked like he had the weight of the world on his little shoulders.

I didn't see that at all. I just saw an older boy (9 y.o. behaviour is MUCH different to 4 y.o.,) who was just behaving appropriately at a very official Royal event. What should he have been doing? The hand symbol for rock music at the crowd, high five-ing Charlotte, and doing cartwheels around the balcony?

@Highfivemum

Also, what should George have been wearing? A onesie, and some converse trainers?

I feel like you need to see better films.

Argh, reply fail! That was in response to:

Two hours of amazing spectacle - about the same length as a feature film and ten times more immersive.

Immersive? For a four year old who has no idea who most of the people are and who is up in the stands?

It was rightly pitched to nostalgic adults.

Unlike other parents Kate is being praised to the heavens, for just dealing with her children normally. Its bonkers.

Have you actually been reading this thread? Some posters are being pretty nasty to Kate. And the 'if this was MEGHAN' comments are irksome. As a pp said, 'yeah let's ramble on about something that didn't happen!'

FFS, people area allowed to like Kate, and say they thought she handled Louis well! Some people just love to bash anything.

One thing we saw was Charles being a grandfather, Louis is obviously very relaxed and happy with him. I thought that was a nice picture. I suppose my grandfather's were a bit Victorian so I don't actually remember ever sitting on their laps and they wouldn't have been the people I'd have run to as a 4 year old although I loved them.

I think it's kinda shitty to put a four year old in a suit and tie and expect them to behave perfectly for hours on end at a massive teedfest just to keep the plebs happy

Did you actually watch?
Louis wasn't in a suit.
He had plenty family both adults and other children around him to keep him content. He was lap surfing at one point, moving between mum, dad and grampa,and gigging along with grampa bet some parts of the pageant he actually enjoyed.

Did you actually watch. Louis wasn't in a suit.

No I didn't. OK scrap the suit and tie, the rest of it still stands though. And putting a nine year old in a suit and tie is grim too.

I hope she's not reading the criticism today, and that if she is she isn't taking it to heart.

I very much doubt that she is! 🤣

No, some posters are stating, rightfully that there is no need to be "loving" Kate, just for managing her own child's behaviour.

I didn't see much of it but from what I've seen and read everyone seemed to be displaying perfectly normal behaviour.

Child gets taken to an important but boring event, child acts up as is normal, parent deals with it, end of story.

I think the kids should have been there, it's an important family event and all of us as children had to suffer through several of them and we were expected to behave, when we didn't we got told off. Exactly what happened in this situation. Kids need to learn from a young age how to behave and whilst it's expected for a 4 year old to kick up a fuss they should be reprimanded if they are being cheeky/naughty because that's how they learn right from wrong.

I feel like parents, especially royal ones can't win. Had Louis been left at home there would have been people criticising that saying he should have been there, taken away by a nanny would have been about Kate not parenting, sat there like an angel it would be why is he so robotic, Kate shouting at him would have meant she was a bad parent, ignoring it likewise.

Everybody judges, including me but I think sometimes people just need to keep them to themselves. Kids are hard work, some more than others and we just do the best we can.

Exactly. I am not going to marvel in awe just because she parented her child.

That was in response to lameasahorse.

I think the message here is that, Kate just parenting a small child that can be unruly at times is very relatable to most parents whether you're a royal or not and not to expect much from a 4 yo because he is a 4 yo. By some of the tone on this thread where some people are saying my child will never do this etc just shows how out of touch people are and have the Victorian mentality where kids should be seen but not heard etc. Just because yours doesn't, doesn't mean that those that do are not parented properly. The royal kids have nannies, go to one of the best schools in the country and have the best tutors. So to me when my 3yo acts up, it isn't because of what we do is wrong or haven't done enough but it's the fact that he they are pre schoolers. I think she has handled him good because she intervened but at the same time she could have chosen to take him out which could have resulted in some kicking and screaming which would have caused a scene. I don't love her more for parenting her child but just find it relatable as we don't see that side of royals very often. What we tend to see is some one attending events with expensive outfits with perfect hair and make up and we hear stories of their aides or which schools the kids go to etc which is a different world to most normal people in this country but when you see a small child giving the royal parents a hard time we can relate or those with perfectly well behaved children can feel a bit superior as they aren't royals but at least their kids don't behave like that.

The thing I find a bit weird is people finding it funny or adorable. He totally disrespected his Mum, pulled his cousin’s hair and kicked his sister. That’s not cute! Kudos to Kate though as it must have been a nightmare having to sit through that with a smile on her face when she was probably internally seething.