To think today's Royal Christening is deliberate mind-fuckery timewarpery?

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It's all so ... 1948? ... mummy pushing the heirloom pram, George's historical fancy dress outfit, the Norland Nanny in her starched uniform, the crown jewels font shipped in from the Tower, the fawning sycophantic voice-over on the BBC helpfully sharing with the little people the details of George's internal monologue ... It still is 2015 is it? Haaaaaalp!!!!! I thought these were the new wave modern Royals?

Sorry, I meant a bizarre and pretentious spectacle.

I don't know why people get so upset/annoyed by it.I was mildly taken aback by George's outfit,which was the sort of thing my brothers would have worn for best in 1950s, but if that is their choice it doesn't bother me.

I went to Israel on Holiday and anyone can buy plastic bottles and collect water from the River Jordan to take back with you in case anyone you know if having a baby Christened. No one I knew was and my bottle of Jordan water is probably still in the loft where it has been for 20 years - I wonder what it looks like under the microscope now - eek! Like a primordial swamp I expect.

I think people forget that George will be King and pictures of his childhood will still be being published in 100 years. He needs to not be wearing anything fashionable in 2015 so that those photos don't look ridiculous in retrospect. Better that they look slightly odd now and slightly odd in 2050 (or whenever) than them looking fashionable now and utterly stupid in 2050.

I did feel bit sorry for Kate pushing that pram as she seemed too tall for it and I well remember that ache in the shoulders trying to push a pram with a handlebar that's too low.

You can order it online these, and people have been bringing it back from visits to the Holy Land for baptisms for centuries. Like I said, it's really not difficult to get hold of and the Jordan has significance as the site of Jesus' baptism which is why people do it.

Meanwhile back in the real world of austerity, benefit cuts, budget cuts etc.......

Its the way the world has always gone round and always will go round.

I thought it was weird as Fcuk too OP, they bang on about being modern royals so what was all this cr@p about.

Maybe Kate had watched a whole box set of Downton Abbey.

It was a show as well as a christening, of course. Her family would be very good at branding. It looked like a perfect scene vignette. Nanny was presented to show she was not there as a guest, but working. Looked like '40's. Picture perfect, but set in another time.

"Nanny was presented to show she was not there as a guest, but working."

That's the bit that REALLY gets me . . . who wants to proclaim to the world that they can't even look after their own two children at a christening when both parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents are all there as well? You'd think that's the one day they could cope without a nanny, wouldn't you?

OP - YANBU - I can't believe the posters who say MN doesn't care about these things! I've seen so many "why on earth do they do that" threads, it's a bit two faced!

I agree with OP: old fashioned pram that wouldn't take you round the shops; George's outfit that looked just like the one his Dad wore; the same old fashioned robe; the Norland nanny. They are being traditional to an extreme. BUT
If they'd come out in a Mothercare 3-wheeler travel system; with George wearing a tshirt and denim shorts; with a nanny dressed in jeans, they'd have been moaned at for trying to 'be like us', so they can't really win.

Nanny wore her uniform because that's what Norland Nannies do.

And I suspect the wee ones were very much the centre of attention at home with plenty of adoring adults only too willing to look after them

As for Nanny being there? You can hardly blame someone for not wanting to change a nappy whilst wearing the clothes the guest were wearing.

The OTT uniforms for George and the nanny are deliberate. People look at the clothes and not their faces. It means that when they go out in their civvies day-to-day they are much less likely to be recognised (papers aren't allowed print pictures of their daily life, just public events like this).

Agree with dowser

It feels like bad taste with all the poverty, the benefits cuts etc we have at the moment. Not so much having a christening as of course they can baptise their child if they wish, but the publicity and press sycophancy.

I know alot of people want it. I suppose I feel the same about "sleb" news/party reporting though but it's easier to ignore. Also they are not funded by tax payer.

I quite like seeing people's outfits and watching people walking up and down (as per the christening) but there is a feeling of "this is not quite right " about it to me.

That pram must have been resprung and reupholstered imo. And imagine trying to get on bus with it!

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

BalloonSlayer! Do NOT tell MN you had a holiday abroad please when there are poor people on the planet! How dare you!
Do you all hate everyone with money or is it just the Royals you reserve your bile for? Envy is so ugly.
Maybe she should have put one of those headbands round the baby's head and gone for a KFC drive thru with a bottle of Mangers in the back yard whilst pissed grownups waddled their beer bellies on the kids' trampoline? Would that be OK for a MN approved do?

How else could you formally attire a 2-year old boy? They're far trickier to dress than girls for formal occasions. Smocking/shorts seems like the obvious solution.

The pram is probably being used for practical purposes with the christening robe - we have a family christening robe that has now been used by four generations (my great-grandmother was a dressmaker), and there is no way a baby can go in a modern pushchair or carseat in it - trust me! An old-fashioned pram, carrying the baby in your arms or changing the baby in the church are the only options.

I thought kate looked lovely, it was a happy family event . I used a pram that was 20 years old and the suspension was fab I guess that one was better!!!. Seeing as every thing they use gets sold out in 30 secs I can see why they went down memory land land. Quite frankly the event was private no foreign invites and I bet There are some people that would spend more ... As for a Norland nanny they have been wearing that uniform for years.

Sangria

It's not envy; It's embarrassment.

I haven't felt so humiliated on the world stage since BoJo was elected Mayor of London.

Why can't we have the Spanish royals? They are always dressed up it seems but aren't so cringe-makingly try hard.

The Nanny was there because she would likely have been mortified and deeply offended to not have been invited because she's 'staff'!!

As for little George, what else is a two year old suppose to wear to a very formal occasion? A chino and shirt set from John Lewis would hardly have befitted the occasion. I thought he looked lovely. This type of traditional, formal wear for small children is still very easily available. It could have been so much worse. He could have been wearing this...

www.childrensalon.com/baby/special-occasion/little-darlings-boys-ivory-silk-montgomery-baby-suit-100093.html

And the pram is usually on display at the Sandringham Transport Museum always looking that shiny and polished. Better to use that than lump the muddy bugaboo out of the Range Rover!

My dear old grandad designed and built that pram. He would have been thrilled to see it back in use particularly as the one he built for the family is in bits in my mums garage

Their baby their rulez hun xxx

Up the revolution.

Utter pile of cack