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?

No way could a full sized silver cross pram (or more than one, given their popularity) go in the luggage area under the stairs! That area used to have a metal bar going across it to stop everything falling out - you couldn't wedge a full sized pram under there. Yep, slings were around way back then - a kind of long length of fabric that was kind of tied or pinned in place.

I certainly wasn't able to get my late 70s Mothercare pram onto the buses of that time. It was a bit like a cut down version of a Silver Cross - but the chassis and body could be separated, so that the chassis could be folded up and put in the car boot and the body could be used as a carrycot, strapped into the back seat. It was a real faff, though.

The original McLaren buggy was designed by an aeronautical engineer who saw how his daughter struggled with an old fashioned pushchair - but Silver Cross prams were bigger than pushchairs.

The Royals don't catch buses, I am pretty sure. You have heard of the Royal Train (reduced now to a coach or two, I think) and the Royal Yacht (now decommissioned), but whoever heard of the Royal Bus?

Maybe it was all to distract from how frail the Queen and her husband are looking.

I thought the queen looked fab. Prince P is looking a bit frail but he has done for years. I bet he is still here in 10 years though

What's the religious significance of water from Jordan for the Church of England? Surely it'd make more sense for it to come from the Thames?

Love the idea of Royal Bus

There is the Royal Barge which is perhaps the Tudor equivalent of the Royal Bus.

I saw princess anne on a normal train once. In fact I inadvertently nicked her newspaper...

I thought they all looked beautiful. Its just a classic look.

So because some people have is worse than others, we should cancel all external signs of wealth, or of class? Where are the shops for the hairshirts, please? Or should we have a bint in veil ring a bell and say "shame" next to all wealthier person?

If you REALLY want to happily waste some time, look at google images of 'routemaster bus interiors' :D
I was the eldest of four in the seventies, no way was our silver cross ever going on the bus!

I thought William could have lent a hand pushing the pram up the hill.

I utterly disagree with having a Royal Family and this kind of thing - parading in front of the 'subjects' - a little wave here and there, before retreating to live a life of utter luxury for doing very, very little, is just bloody irritating.

Kate, on the plus side, continues to do a lot of good work for the Republican cause.

ofafrenchMind nothing wrong in wealth when you create it yourself but the royals get it all chucked at them just for being who they are. Just because we have them doesn't make it right.

Not really a Royalist, not really a raving Republican, but I do like having a little chuckle watching George behaving in as normal a toddler way as he can in the face of all the bizarrely formal walking and waving :) That little moment when he made a run for it away from the church is fantastic!

It doesn't bear up to any sort of examination admit to strong republican tendencies. Whole "born to rule" thing so wrong in our society. And hate being a "subject".

Cringe at the great and the good bowing and scraping to Wills and Kate - I mean really perfectly average middle class type couple achieved nothing personally of note yet people who have done all sorts of clever and talented things doff their caps. Ewwww

So because some people have is worse than others, we should cancel all external signs of wealth, or of class? Where are the shops for the hairshirts, please? Or should we have a bint in veil ring a bell and say "shame" next to all wealthier person

The majority of naysayers are objecting on grounds of taste. Not wealth.

get over it

Agree Kerala. It would be a cold day in hell before I bow or curtsey to anyone.

I cringe when I see people actually bowing and curtseying to the royal family. It's laughable and sickening at the same time.

get over it? In other words 'shut up'? Why come on a talk board to tell posters to shut up? Are you telling all the people on all the threads to 'get over it', or just the threads you personally consider boring/pointless? Long day ahead either way ....

Jesus was baptised with Jordan water.

According to the Bible.

Agree, Kerala and FirstWe. Mind you, I can never figure out why there is still a monarchy, when absolutely none of the arguments in favour make any sense at all. It seems to come down to a confused, sentimental mishmash of 'tradition and trooping the colour and hats and the crown jewels and garden parties and Boris Johnson (or insert other name - BJ is admittedly horrifying in any capacity) as elected Head of State and Hello! magazine and nice hair and cute babies and tradition and horses and Buck House etc etc'.

FirstWe, I'm not sure I agree on Kate/Katherine/whatever her name actually is doing useful work for the republican cause - aren't her nice blowdries and girl-next-door collection of nude wedges propping up the monarchy in some way? As well as producing the next generation, obv.

The bit on the news where she was struggling to push that behemoth pram in high feels and a carefully-balanced hat was probably the most public effort I've seen from a royal, though.

In Spain, Portugal and Italy children tend to wear very classic clothes and look adorable. All the children in my family wear tbar shoes and long socks regularly.

Having said that, the whole mimicking outfit is naff and sort of creepy.

DrinkingSangriainthePark Whyever did you pick on me back there? What did I say that made me sound envious? Or even particularly critical? I defended George's outfit and only commented that if the Nanny was in uniform to show she was working that made them look a bit lazy/useless on such an occasion. Where did I suggest that they had spent too much money. Or shown any "bile" ?