A five month old baby girl can be ladylikereally Prince William.

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Am I being unreasonable to find this the most ridiculous thing to come out of Prince Williams mouth. Princess Charlotte may be a very different baby to Prince George but ladylike at 5 months old that is utter tosh.

You would think that William would have a mental list of stock phrases he could pick from when asked about his kids. He must surely know that everything that comes out of his mouth will be analysed. Why it should be of any interest to anyone what his children are like is beyond me. The whole concept of a royal family is ridiculous. The way these royals are fawned over by some people is sickening.

Maybe she's just more like her mother than her brother was. Kate happens to be a lady.

He doesn't have sisters, his mother died while he was a child, he hasn't really grown up with close female family members. My own dad was a the same and subsequently comes out with the most cringeworthy things. He means no harm though.

Far too much analysis over a throwaway remark in some small talk... Too much being read into it imo

really think some people need to take the sticks out their arses, BREAKING NEWS, man says something silly about his child... pathetic really!

So bloody what if he is in the media, he's a human being, we all say silly things, Its not as if he doomed a group of people to death etc... he made a nice comment about his newborn daughter and you'd have thought he had broken the law by some of the idiotic comments being sprouted out.

Ladylike as in she's like the landed gentry unlike her non aristocratic mother?

Have any of you actually read the reports? It's not even a direct quote from William. He has been at St John's college Cambridge opening a new library. While there he chatted to the Master when the Master have him a present for the children. The Master was interviewed by the Daily Fail and told them that William had said that Charlotte was ladylike. He could easily have quoted him incorrectly or out of context and for all we know it was the Master who used the precise term ladylike and not William.
The rest of the article is about a completely separate function for the Child Bereavement Trust that William also attended. It was no doubt deliberately headlined with a potentially controversial quote about the children to make people click and draw their attention to the charity. For once, nice work Daily Mail.

I think that point has already been made, Jessie

Apologies for not forensically reading every post Auntie Stella. Sorry you had to take time out of your busy day to come on and tell me that I should not have bothered posting.

Given that he's clearly stupid, is what I meant Bertrand. Media training can only go so far.

There are people out there who literally hang on to every word that comes out of a royal mouth. The Royal corespondents are the worst when asking them some inane question.The fawning and forelock tugging never ceases to amaze me.

Please point me to the exact post Auntie Stella where anyone else pointed out that (a) it was not a direct quote from William and (b) the DM used a comment made privately at one event to draw people in to a report about the child bereavement event?

Those were the points I made. That is not the same as the previous poster who mentioned that William had been speaking at a Child Bereavement Trust event ( mistakenly suggesting that is where he made the "ladylike" comment?

There have been whole threads about the need to RTFT.

This isn't one where it's jarringly insensitive, but I did find it very critical of all posters here, especially those who had already said what you repeated.

But I also feel that I have wasted time in posting as I did, not just now, but back on page 1 of the thread if no-one's going to read it. After all it certainly didn't change the direction of the thread towards the Child Bereavement Trust, nor increase consideration of context.

If people prefer to discuss whether it is ever appropriate to call a 5mo 'ladylike' that's fine by me. I'm not thread police. Just someone saddened by apparent invisibility.

X-post.

I realise now how far I am in error.

My apologies, everyone.

Apology accepted, thanks.

Perhaps she puts her hand over her mouth when she brings up her wind ;)

It is so disappointing that he is stereotyping his children already!! It would have been FAR more interesting if he had said Charlotte was a wild and rough and tumble character and George was lady like!

Poor Charlotte confined to being a 'lady' already and not even one years old, god help her if she decides to be a tomboy and hang from trees and take up girls rugby, who knows how she will be. Labelling children is never a good idea, they have a nasty habit of turning out to be the exact opposite leaving!

not sure what people expect from a man who effectively married a coathanger. sorry miaow......

poppy it's not actually clear that William said it at all. And the Royal family have a very good record of tomboyish girls, as mentioned above- Princess Anne, Zara Phillips, even Her Maj herself prefers wellies, learned vehicle mechanics during the war and was famously up a tree in Kenya when she heard her father had died and she was to become Queen.

For goodness sake, he was just making small talk - what can you possibly say about a five month old that doesn't include nappies and milk?