Would you have got the Royal children a gift.

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If I had been at Sandringham I would not have given the Royal children a gift as they get a lot of gifts anyway. Really they should have taken tubs of sweets and offered them to local children. That way they would have been polite.

No.

Why would you bother? Do idiots really believe that George, Charlotte and Louis will spend the evening munching on their actual box of Lindor while watching a film?

The real one and the one you made up in June for a parade?

I don't know what was worse , the people who queue outside in the cold to give flowers to the Royals ( like Kate is going to go back and start looking for a vase ) or the Royals marching through in a line to be gawked at and called to by nutty strangers .
Maybe Andrew secretly glad to be kicked out of that part .

If everyone was normal, they’d walk out if church to no-one. If only.

I saw footage of Kate talking to an absolute psycho who wouldn’t let her go. Kate was doing her best rictus grin while this weirdo was wanging on about Diana ffs. And to the children. Diana died around 20 years before these children were even born.

It's such a strange concept to stand and watch other humans because of their birth line and show deference.
No gifts for the children
Wouldn't be there in the first place.

It’s a really weird thing to do and I think the people who queue up to see them are weird. However they are not as weird as the Royal family. Imagine being them and not having the brain power and self awareness to realise that people fawning over you just because of who gave birth to you is messed up. If I were them I would end the monarchy and live a normal life. I absolutely hate the concept of the monarchy. It’s so outdated. They don’t do themselves any favours though. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Yuk. Poor children.

I have a regular patient, who has 3 monthly appointments, for some reason she loves me. I don’t know why, I mostly give her tough love. She’s always giving enormously loud burps before crying she feels sick. All the others run around getting vomit bowls but she’s never sick and I ignore it and just tell her to get up on the trolley, she’s elderly obviously and in a wheel chair but can be surprisingly agile with a little encouragement. Occasionally I feel obliged to give her a hug and next thing that whiskery face descends…😱

I’d never inflict that on my children.

Why wouldnt they? They are still kids with the same likes/dislikes as other children

Surely all the chocolate/ food gifts are destroyed?
They couldn’t even give it away could they?

No, people who do that are bonkers. The royals can buy anything they want and for security reasons I doubt they’d even get to keep the gift from the weirdo fans anyway, it’s just throwing away money.

There is no way they would be allowed to eat anything that was given to them or I think any toy either . It will all be given away .

I am pretty confident that John will be on a watchlist 😉

Yes. If it's poisoned let the plebs die! I suppose it's no more weird than people trying to give their favourite music star a gift. Taylor, look what I brought you! People standing out in the cold at Sandringham. If there aren't that many why not let them into the service? Keep them in the cheap seats but at least they get a better experience. No cameras tho. That maddo John stays outside.

It's completely bonkers. My mother was like this. I was a little girl when Diana died and she made me give up one of my toys to put with the piles of flowers - complete with a note asking to pass it on to Harry. Even at that age I knew that Harry's mum had just died and he was a prince - he would definitely not want a second hand teddy bear from a random girl he'd never met. But in my mother's head it must have made some kind of sense.

Sorry I am not sure why I assumed it was a woman.
I think while it’s fine for the children to do walkabouts and wave I have got to the stage where I think that should be it. Charlotte is such a lovely young girl, she was hugging people and doing selfies which she looked like she was enjoying.
But I think at some point that really makes the Wales’ kids stand out from the other children there.
The vitriol I see aimed at the children can be awful. I’m not a fan of H&M but their children get it as well, and we have never even seen them properly.

I was a young mum when Diana died, and I was so angry at all the news coverage criticising the Queen for staying at Balmoral with William and Harry - all the “Where are you, Ma’am?” rubbish. She was a grandmother, looking after her devastated grandsons, and keeping them out of the public eye - 100% the right thing to do. To hear that she was then told to look after the boys, after the public outcry had dragged her and them out of the safety of Balmoral, to parade their grief in public has made me cross all over again!

It has always baffled me that ordinary people send gifts to the Royal Family, whichever members of it or occasions. The Royal Family can buy themselves whatever they want! If people want to buy gifts for strangers at Christmas, why don't they find one of the many initiatives where you can buy a gift or gifts for people in poverty?

I hope I'm not crediting the Royals with more generosity than they deserve, but I'm fairly sure they'd rather see gifts like that going to charitable causes - and I expect that's in fact where they end up.

I too wouldn’t want my children taking things handed to them by strangers @MrsSkylerWhite
The security must be a nightmare 😮

at least Taylor Swift has talent and her music brings pleasure to millions , can't say that about the royals. There is an interview with John Lennon from many decades ago where he says that of course the Beatles have more fans than the Queen because the Queen has never had any hit records.

I would bet good money that if those selection boxes and the soft toys went through a security spectrometer, there would be more bodily fluids on a couple of them than just fingerprint grease and sweat.

I wouldn’t want my children even touching those offerings from a load of obsessive whackjobs.

“Why wouldn’t they?”

Because they could have been poisoned for a start! There’s no way they’d let the royals eat gifted food items. It would be a massive security threat.

Apart from the gifting cringe I think that the " parade of the privileged" is just awful. they all look mortified, awkward and self conscious. Do away with it stat! Then leave us in peace.

Oddballs who do it probably realise they’ll go straight to disadvantaged people, surely

Well quite. I live in Norfolk. The Local Authority Childrens services has a gift drive every year where people can buy a book or a gift for children in care, so they have something to open on the day. The Royals could ask these people to donate directly to children who actually need it so that they could have a gift on Christmas day, rather than have some rejects handed to them a week later.