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.

They started this in the first place. It is quite a recent thing. These obsessive Royalists are hardly going to stage a revolution. The vast majority of the public think these people are out of order. More people are judging William and Kate now for allowing it. Which may mean they will do something about it. They clearly didn't care when it was just these oddballs who were being mocked and criticised so maybe they will care now that more people are questioning why they themselves allow it. I suspect the Royals love the fawning. That's why they don't stop it. People can stand and wave but it would be quite easy to say no touching of the children and no giving of presents. Their staff or the church could even have a big box saying 'these are going to the local food bank'/hospital' or something. That would stop these people pawing the kids.

I imagine they like sweets and chocolate the same as any other child although I expect they know that all gifts given to them are passed on to charity. I think flowers are donated to care homes for residents to enjoy.

I would not have thought that edibles would be passed on, due to risks of tampering. Why should other people's children have to be put at risk? I would never knowingly accept a selection pack, or whatever, if any child of mine was in hospital, if I knew it had been given to a member of the rf. They would never eat anything they are given, people should think, before wasting their money fgs.

Good point. And even the cuddly toys could be tampered with.

Therefore all those idiots people who give gifts .....should know that their gifts are landfill shortly after giving 🙄

I’m 💯 convinced all sweets etc are not given to them due to contamination poisoning Lord knows what some nutter could lace them with

That is a good point. If you give toys to hospital etc charity drives they often ask for new/boxed. Yet we are expected to believe that toys pawed by some very strange people and handed to the Royal children who in turn have been hand shaking randoms for half an hour and dumped in the back of a car are then gratefully received a week after Christmas by sick children? If my child was ill in hospital I would not be keeping those 'gifts'.

They get inspected and then donated to charity.

No

They dont care ifthey get thrown away. The money is spent trying to get children ( one a 7 year old) to come over to them for hugs etc. They need to think on that. Or if they are incapable of understanding why luring children into hugs and slobbering by strangers is not a good idea, then other adults have a responsibility to protect those children. It seems none are doing that, because the adulation and continuation of the Monarchy is more important.

They're a waste of time and money. Sad, stupid people love them though.

Sad, stupid people love them though

Quality debating skills, there.

Who do we anticipate sits there doing the inspections ? William and Kate? I bet they go straight in the bin

That's true. We donate to one each year and they ask for in original seals and unwrapped.

The thought of food items being 'passed on' to other childen though- i cannot imagine it- the risk of tampering is too high i would have thought.

I'm not sure anyone's going to be able to prise that huge Lindt d'Or out of Louis' arms

Urgh no. If I was Kate I would never let my kids anywhere near the presents these daft nutjobs wave at them from the crowd with.

id like to think they all get donated but only after they have been fully xrayed and checked for razor blades, poisons etc.

Yeah, I think the likelihood of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (FDIA) among that crowd isn’t going to be zero.

The risk is real.

As for the checks - they’d need to be airport security scanner level, the same used for their post and deliveries.

After reading what some blokes admit to doing on lingerie in M&S before putting it back on the hangers, nothing under the sun surprises me now about human proclivities.

After reading what some blokes admit to doing on lingerie in M&S before putting it back on the hangers, nothing under the sun surprises me now about human proclivities.
Yes I wouldn't be taking anything off that guy with the Diana obsession!

I’ve just come across the clips of this - last time I saw a glimpse of this weird tradition there were only flowers and there was no touching.
Regardless of my lack of understanding folk who plan present buying for 3 unknown kids in the hope of touching them it’s clear some take pleasure in it.
Perhaps W&K could say one year that each child has chosen a charity for donations instead - you can get gift receipts from most and/or the child could be on the Xmas fundraiser mailshots - they could let everyone know how much was raised and even send a thank you letter/card via the charity. If they insisted the kids can’t have presents and had a great bin to put them in at the entrance perhaps folk would eventually learn. The kids can still walk and wave and say ty via receipts.
William wants to end homelessness apparently but in the meantime he can flag this up as the type of place where they want gifts/donations directing - even choose a specific local homeless hostel/centre.
Kate does a lot of kids things - next year she could do a ‘don’t talk to weirdos’ campaign for the kids and say her kids are role modelling this teaching.
Whilst I’ve spent a lot of my decades being generally ambivalent about royals/republics this show of parading kids, taking gifts, and accepting very odd full on adulation from the plebs puts me off just a little bit more.

Perhaps W&K could say one year that each child has chosen a charity for donations instead - you can get gift receipts from most and/or the child could be on the Xmas fundraiser mailshots - they could let everyone know how much was raised and even send a thank you letter/card via the charity. If they insisted the kids can’t have presents and had a great bin to put them in at the entrance perhaps folk would eventually learn. The kids can still walk and wave and say ty via receipts.

This is a great idea! Hence it will not happen!

Is there actually any evidence that any of it gets donated?

No there seems to be a whole protocol around it. But I doubt they let them eat the sweet stuff. I wouldn’t anyway. William and Harry did the same thing. So they think this is normal. William thinks he has to placate the plebs by letting them be over familiar with the children basically.

I’m Irish and have no skin in the game but felt really bad for particularly Charlotte during that news segment. She’s there in her very old fashioned coat, I saw comments reminiscing about how it was like their old coat. I just felt bad for her. She is clearly very up for this. But it’s not right, a 10 year old hugging people she doesn’t know.

I would guess anything consumable would be thrown in the skip (novochok anyone?).

Flowers donated if the staff have time to sort them out and deliver them locally or thrown on the compost heap.

Toys - carefully checked for being knock off and then donated to kids charities or thrown in the skip.

Exactly. These Diana freaks are not right in the head.

from a forensic point of view, Novichok would be a poor and implausible choice. but yes i understand your point

No one here seems to have any evidence of the gifts being donated.

They won't be! Everything will get binned. There is no way they will be passed on or donated to sick kids or care homes etc. too many nut jobs around.

I don't have a problem with the RF but I wouldn't ever camp overnight to catch a glimpse of them at Christmas. I suppose if you're alone at Christmas it could be something to do.

I would love to know if anyone here has done it or knows anyone who has?