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to not care at all about the royal baby?

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lu9months · 22/07/2013 21:05

i wish them well as i would any new parents. but really. its a child, as wonderful as any other new baby. i find it obscene the extent to which they are venerated and exalted. sorry. just how i feel.

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Moxiegirl · 22/07/2013 21:29

I don't care and have already deleted a few irritations from fb Grin

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lu9months · 22/07/2013 21:29

absolutely eatyouwithaspoon - just been reading the observer food monthly about a single mum's blog on how she managed to feed her 3 year old son decent meals on £10 a week - because she couldn't bear to keep giving him a single Weetabix mixed with water...i know i am being naïve, but this is 2013 not the middle ages, it doesn't make any sense to me.

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TigerSwallowTail · 22/07/2013 21:31

serving, 57k? That is just ridiculous.

ilovesooty · 22/07/2013 21:31

I have rather mixed feelings about William claiming the paternity pay. I know he's entitled to it, but...

WineNot · 22/07/2013 21:31

Unfortunately life isn't fair and inequality will always exist. Personally, I think the Mum's 'at the mercy' of the NHS are the lucky ones. Rather that than give birth in the third world.

If this baby wasn't born, it wouldn't change the fact that some new Mum's experience a shocking lack of care.

Bitch at the media and the hype... but don't forget that that William and Kate would probably far rather do without the circus too as they adjust to being first time parents.

kim147 · 22/07/2013 21:33

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WineNot · 22/07/2013 21:35

The monarchy absolutely doesn't need the press to survive... The monarchy is a thousand year old institution.

How long has the press been about?

AmericasTorturedBrow · 22/07/2013 21:36

Not a republican, not a royalist, don't care any which way to be honest

katykuns · 22/07/2013 21:38

I do kinda care, in the sense that I feel they do deserve some privacy and pity them having the media intrude on every aspect of their personal life. Having a baby is such a personal thing to experience.

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Freudianslap · 22/07/2013 21:39

I don't care either. My only concern is that they don't pick the same name as I have chosen for my baby (due in sept)...

SauvignonBlanche · 22/07/2013 21:39

YANBU

filee777 · 22/07/2013 21:39

I hope they call him dexter or Tyler :)

lottieandmia · 22/07/2013 21:41

YANBU - I don't know them and they have no clue who I am - they are strangers to me. I wish them well as anyone who has a baby but that's it.

The royals bore me - the whole concept of the monarchy makes little sense to me and I just don't get people saying stuff about them as if they know them personally.

MacaYoniandCheese · 22/07/2013 21:45

Living in a country that is history-poor compared to the UK, I think you are being U and a bit of a misery. It would be terribly sad if there was no longer a monarchy Sad. This is an historic and joyful occasion Crown.

McNewPants2013 · 22/07/2013 21:47

didn't even notice a new Smiley Crown

servingwench · 22/07/2013 21:50

Yes Tiger 57K and that was about 20 outfits! She's never done a days work...and no I don't count shaking people's hands and waving as work!

kim147 · 22/07/2013 21:50

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spotscotch · 22/07/2013 21:52

What an odd thing to be negative about Sad

SauvignonBlanche · 22/07/2013 21:52

Off with their heads! Grin

LadyBryan · 22/07/2013 21:53

YANBU to feel that way.

I'm thrilled about it though. I adore history and we're living through it today. Fabulous.

kim147 · 22/07/2013 21:53

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misterioso · 22/07/2013 21:55

No YANBU

To some it is good news, because they like to be unrealistically optimistic when there is so much gloom, it gives them focus.
It can get on your nerves though when there is far more important stuff going on.

YABU though if you go on a happy thread and piss on their chips. Not suggesting you have done this and neither did I.
Just try and avoid as best you can

WineNot · 22/07/2013 21:55

[yawn]

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allaflutter · 22/07/2013 21:59

he's a future King, but so is Will and Charles - are they particularly special? I think they aer both nice, but nothing beyond that. Lokking to the past, most monarchs in the 20th cen were not anything special, possibly the Queen an exception just by her longevity and all the work she's done. These days, a monarch has to prove themselves to be special/intelligent, otherwise they aer a laighing stock - imagine that Prince Andrew could have been a King [shudders]