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.

Someone gave George a giant teddy. He's 12! ( I know Great Uncle Andrew still has his teddy collection!)

It's quite a small church and by the time several members of the Royal Family are in it, as well as some people who go to church in that benefice on a regular basis, there simply wouldn't be room for the folks in the crowd.
I've no idea what the church gave out yesterday but in the past they have given out hymn sheets, I think. They do broadcast the service on a tannoy but the sound doesn't carry far, in my experience, and very few people know the words of the Morning Service, or care about joining in.
The crowd is made up of a mixture of people. Some of them don't take flowers or sweets or or even cameras.
No, I wouldn't have taken sweeties or teddies to give to any member of the Royal Family.
I have seen someone from the church come out from the steps, with buckets, to the crowd - probably not churchwardens but maybe people who are on the church council. They were collecting, I think for a local hospice. Members of the crowd put money in. If I'd been there yesterday I would have done that, and I wouldn't have thought myself any more weird than when a local organisation is collecting outside my local supermarket and I put something into their bucket.

The only comfort is that all these nutters seem relatively old. The ridiculous forelock tugging will die out with them.

Ooooh, thanks for reminding me. I've got to do my forelock-tugging practice at 18.30 even though it is Boxing Day, followed obviously by the curtseying exercises. At least it will all be finished by the time 'Call the Midwife' comes on.

Have a draw in the crowd for eg 5 lucky people. They've made the effort so let them in. Hardly likely to be terrorists

I think that's a nasty thing to say. Some of the people are disabled who the Royals have met through charity work. There was a lady on here a few years ago who was terminally ill and wanted to greet the Royals on Christmas Day.

If people are happy to do this then who are we to judge. Also the gifts and flowers are donated.

What are you practising for? Surely these wastes of space are now retiring until Easter?

If I were disabled or terminally ill, the last thing I’d be doing is standing in the cold fawning over a bunch of undeserving privileged toffs. Where is their self-respect?

Yes, I mean the terminally ill can of course do what they like but if I was their family member and it was possibly my last Christmas with someone, if they decided to spend it standing around waving and giving chocolate boxes to the Royals I'd be a bit 🙄 its mostly American tourists and people with learning difficulties by the looks if it. The Royals really should protect their children from oddballs crying at them about their dead grandma but they don't. They love it and are throwing their children to the wolves in the same way they always have done.

Who should have brought tubs of sweets op?

Simpletons really!! Could you've found a more derogatory way to describe people with learning issues.
And I ain't no Royalist

Perhaps it makes them happy. Why are you so judgemental how other people wish to spend their time.

If I was the sort who might enjoy getting up at dawn to secure a place to gawp at the Court of King Caractacus Charles just passing by I suppose it might occur to me to also cross a royal palm with a selection box.

But I'm not.

I remember this too. The press were clearly deflecting from their own culpability. But TLQ could have come down on her own. She could have put out a statement saying she was staying with her grandchildren in Balmoral and explained why. Instead the children were dragged down to London to parade around in front of people crying in their faces about their dead mother. Both Harry and William have said that was more disressing than walking behind the coffin. The survival of the Monarchy is more important than any one member, even when they are children. That is the fault of the RF. They could set firmer boundaries around the children but as we saw on Christmas day, they don't.

Would I fuck.
We are a couple of miles away..the sooner this anachronistic, outdated pantomime ends the better.
DWTC

No absolute not however it's probably a way of luring them over !

I like the royal family but the gift thing is crazy. Do these people really think that Kate is going to pop that bouquet in the car then put in a vase when she gets home? Or that the kids will eat the chocolate?
It’s nice if the flowers do get passed on to care homes . Other gifts must be thrown away as they are a security risk.

Do you honestly believe that the royal children eat things given by strangers!

I think most people who would assume they are keeping the gifts in the first place are pretty stupid.

Hear, hear.

Rude 😁 I read somewhere creditable years ago that the “royal” children were able to keep one thing. Perhaps that’s changed, now.

What a lovely idea @RainbowBagels

Welcome to Mumsnet, your highness

There is literally nothing that some weirdos won't do on the off chance that they might get to be in the background of a ten-second televised news clip.