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?

The water being from the River Jordan is of Religious significance

Thank you, Weebirdie!

I find it hilarious that some of those determined to decry Kate and William's choices are trying to deny that coach built prams were popular for a lot of reasons. There's still a market for them today - I wonder why? Could it be because they are great to push, really comfy for baby and let you load up a whole lot of shopping?

Of course people did take them on buses. You know, back in the days when you had a conductor, who would help you with the pram and when buses were of a totally different design. If you weren't there or never saw it - that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Nobody is denying that modern prams and pushchairs are more convenient for people who use their cars as a primary method of transport. But that is a different issue.

Yes, but do you really think the amount of shopping you could fit into the pram, or the fact that it was taken onto public transport was a deciding factor in the Cambridge's using one yesterday? Of course it wasn't - it was the whole traditional 'look' of the day, which was designed to put on some sort of show for the world's media and sell the Royal brand.

it was part of the whole

one thing our Royal Family does well is entertain the crowds with a bit of pomp.
who cares really?
There's a lot worse places to live.

I am not sure how you could get a pram like that on a 50s style bus: they had a step up for a start, and then where would you put the pram? Modern buses by contrast have either a ramp or the driver can lower the floor and they then have wheelchair/buggy spaces.

I know someone who got giardiasis from having a full-immersion baptism in the Jordan.

oh and those prams are built for people with nannies who live in central London to take the little ones to eg Hyde Park. Certainly not for getting on the bus! perish the thought!
meh.

I must don't understand how people, CARE!
You don't know those people. You will NEVER know them. They don't WANT to know you...so WHY do you care. Very odd.

I am not sure how you could get a pram like that on a 50s style bus: they had a step up for a start, and then where would you put the pram? Modern buses by contrast have either a ramp or the driver can lower the floor and they then have wheelchair/buggy spaces.

The conductor would help to life it up, as would other passengers.

I suspect all the royalists who rock up at every public appearance loved the nostalgia of it.
Pretty harmless stuff when you consider the other headline news atm.

Let them get on with it.

well I remember the old routemaster very well, and I really cannot see how that would have been possible given the narrowness of the aisles and arrangements of the seats.
Nobody who buys a coach built Silver Cross pram is planning to use a bus.

We obviously have very different memories Sunny.

obviously

Maybe there was a whole conversation of 'but Granny saved the pram and it would make her really really happy to use it'? I remember quite a few occasions in which my DD had been at MIL's and came back in a far too big dress that used to be one of her auntie's, clearly MIL had saved it and it made her happy to use it again.

They did look really old-fashioned, but then they are. Doesn't bother me much. Nicholas Witchell needs to stop fawning so much though, he's the real embarrassment.

My mum could get the silver cross she had for us in the back of my dad's black cab. Easy peasy.

Wee - Im not sure how you would have got a Silver Cross on a bus either. My mum used to push us up in ours to the main road where she would leave the pram behind the pub (all the women in the village did!) and put us in the sling before getting on the bus. She was really pleased when we were old enough for the folding pushchair which she could take onto the bus - the conductor would help her on with that and it would go in the large luggage area. Silver Cross prams just didn't go onto buses - they were for wheeling to the local shops and for putting your baby outside for their nap in.

Not entirely sure why people are surprised that they are performing (which is what it is) their roles in a way that fits expectations. Also not sure about the logic of 'I live in X posh area and haven't seen any kids there wearing George's clothes, therefore no child wears them in the entire world'.

I'm old enough to have had one of those prams for my 4 children. We lived in various parts of the country and nowhere would I have been able to take the pram on the bus.

Sir, as I said earlier on, I can remember the pram going in the bus and sometimes even being wedged into the storage area under the stairs.

And I cant recall slings though there were times when a large travelling lug was fashioned over a womans shoulder and kind of pinned at the hip to keep the baby in.

Honestly- you could not possibly get a Silver Cross pram onto a bus!

I think there's a bit of false memory syndrome going on here- happens to us all!

I'm certainly not s fsn of the royals and have avoided them in my home town.

It's is though a baptism and they got out an old pram, am old dress for bsby and then walked to church, had only a small congregation

All seems a bit none event

" sometimes even being wedged into the storage area under the stairs. "

a full size pram? not possible.

Half in and half out, it is possible.

But I think this is all bordering on the ridiculous now and I'll leave you to it while I go and have a swim.