I don't normally criticise the royals but...

[DorothyL]

... another day of Kate and William away from their tiny baby for a substantial amount of time.

I just don't understand it, when they were this small I couldn't bear to be apart from them.

Now getting my hard hat 👩‍🚒👷‍♀️😬

This is a really stupid thread. I'm sure the baby is loved and cared for and his parents enjoyed their afternoon. Moreover it's no one else's business.

How condescending Wow I know the word is easily, my ipad isn't behaving, how nice of you to help me out. Though what my grammar has to do with being "judgy" I don't know.

Yes I am happy to proclaim that i think they seem detached parents, that's my opinion based on watching their interaction with their kids. Official photo shoots are totally different. My opinion won't change just because you don't like it. It certainly doesn't make you the better person just because you don't agree with me. What's it to you anyway, the royal family wouldn't give two hoots about you either. They certainly don't need you to defend them.

I don't think I'm a better person than you, in the slightest. I don't know you, just as you don't know the Cambridges. I don't like the rather unpleasant opinions you've expressed on this thread, but that's what a discussion forum is all about.

Feel free to continue to be unpleasant about the Royals. However, MN is meant, as HQ frequently point out, to make parents lives easier. Not sure how your judgy comments help that aim.

Omg can't believe this, she was spending time with George and C harlotte, the day was hot the baby probably wouldn't like it, does she need to be attached to him permanently?

What a horribly judgmental thread.

You have no idea where the baby was. Yesterday he could well have been at Buckingham Palace but just not on the balcony. Today he could have been there but with a nanny. Or with grandparents there or at home. You have no idea and are only going on a few photos in the press.

I left DS when he was a baby. With my mum. With my dad. With people he knew and was happy and secure with. It’s normal. FFS.

They seem to me to be pretty good parents. How unfair of a pp to make such a mean “observation”.

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wow we all do our bit to make their lives easier, by paying tax. Is that not enough? I fail to see why my "unpleasantness" about the royals will make their lives harder. What are they doing to make my life easier? I absolutely do not agree with having a monarchy and it baffles me why people think they're any better than anyone else.

We throw absolute fortunes at this one family, purely because of their DNA, it's wrong on every single level.....and let's not talk about them as two parents that need supporting, (as if they're just like the rest of us) they already get it in bucket loads.

Anything bad said about the royals is always so "mean". Dear me.

I imagine if I was royal and had the support of excellent royal childcare I would consider it.

Just because Louis wasn't in the pictures doesn't mean he wasn't there.

Incidentally I thought the British press left the Royals alone unless called to take photos? Why am I seeing more and more paparazzi shots of them?

I left my poor little son at 6 weeks to go back to work. I even had days out without him. What an awful mother I must have been, not. You lot must live on a different planet. I see no problem at all with parents out enjoying themselves without their offspring. What actually is the problem here?

I suppose without a monarchy we would have an elected head of state like, Trump lol.

If he was there, it's even more strange that he wasn't with her.

I was a little surprised to see pictures. It's the second time in recent weeks there have been pictures of her with older two without Louis taken of them 'off duty'

I do hope that press don't revert back to more intrusive photos and paparazzi shots like they used to

If he was there, it's even more strange that he wasn't with her.

Not really, it was a blazing hot day he was maybe in the shade with a nanny while Kate enjoyed her eldest two. I certainly wouldn't have a newborn sat in the sun!

Her mum probably has him. She’s having a couple of hours with her older ones as she’s probably not had much time since Louis was born.

They’d be asking questions ‘where’s Kate, couldn’t she be bothered?’

She’s danned if she does, and damned if she don’t.

I agree, stupid thread!

And nasty.... goady.... and has backfired on the op now as she just looks stupid herself 😂

Most of us mere mortals manage to create shade for our babies so that they can be with us.

I absolutely do not agree with having a monarchy and it baffles me why people think they're any better than anyone else.

So start a thread about abolishing the monarchy instead of joining this one to state an opinion of a couple's parenting that is based on your dislike on the monarchy.

I am not a royalist by any means (anmnot even British) but the level of meanness directed at them as parents is horrible and spins off on other mothers and fathers just trying to live their lives - and maybe leave their bloody newborn at home for a couple of hours.

Most of us mere mortals manage to create shade for our babies so that they can be with us.

Just when you think this thread couldn't get any thicker ....

pallisers why should i start a thread about abolishing the monarchy, if i did it would only fill with all the royalists telling us all how wonderful they are and great for the country, tourism blah blah blah. Why be so over invested, it's not mean to give your honest opinion, how can anyone talk about meanness about a family that takes so much from the people. Have you anything to say about their greed? or are the royal family above criticism.........My opinion isn't based on my dislike of the monarchy either, it's based on what i observe. Why anyone should care is beyond me, as if they're going to bother reading it.

I just don't understand it, when they were this small I couldn't bear to be apart from them

So everyone should feel the same?

I had NO problem being apart from mine. At any age. Never ever felt I had to sacrifice who I was or am and martyr myself.
My kids and I are super close. I adore them and they me. Thank God I didn't feel I had to tie myself to them 24/7 to achieve that.
I actually feel sad for parents who feel they have nothing else or are nothing else but their children.

I wonder if it’s because there maybe a press blackout with photos of him until the christening. Traditionally royal babies were not introduced to the world until their christening. The photo call on the steps of the hospital only started when Diana had William I believe.

Always amuses me how those that rush to defend the royal family about practically anything always think they're somehow the better person and feel somehow morally superior than those that don't. It really doesn't make you the better person just because you only have nice things to say about them, and those that criticise are somehow goady/bitter/ envious etc.

We don't all have to look up to them and we're not all taken in by the hype, and we're certainly no worse than any of you lot who won't have a word said against them. I prefer to admire people who have achieved something in life, and done it for themselves, rather than a family of freeloaders who've done nothing rather than inherit their ridiculous privilege.

My opinion isn't based on my dislike of the monarchy either, it's based on what i observe. Why anyone should care is beyond me, as if they're going to bother reading it.

I thought you said all the media photo ops were staged so how can your opinion be based on what you observed - it was staged.

I don't give a shit about the royal family's meaness. google queen victoria's contribution to the Irish famine relief for real meanness. I just don't think you should conflate an institution being an unnecessary leech on the exchequer with personal judgements about members' of the royal family's parenting.

Obviously you think their very existence gives you the right to full vitriol on every level. I think that says something about you.