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To have fallen in love with princess Charlotte and her mother?

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Mybestfriendisanalien · 09/08/2019 16:46

I’ve always been neutral when it comes to the royals. Didn’t even watch the wedding(s).

But the a clip of Princess Charlotte cheekily poking her tongue at the public and her mother’s reaction is delightful.

The DoC seems to be blossoming into her role as future queen and this little interaction with daughter and public absolutely makes me melt!

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Breathlessness · 09/08/2019 17:32

I do feel sorry for children growing up under this level of public scrutiny. People discussing online whether a 4 year old is bratty for sticking their tongue out?

MoreFrog · 09/08/2019 17:32

I think Kate seems very natural with her dc

But that's just normal isn't it? Aren't the hoi polloi very natural with their children? Aren't most mothers? Especially the ones who aren't knackered with housework and juggling a budget.

BertrandRussell · 09/08/2019 17:34

“I do feel sorry for children growing up under this level of public scrutiny.“
Are they though? It seems to me that their parents are very good at keeping them out of the public gaze. We see very little of them really.

FudgeBrownie2019 · 09/08/2019 17:34

When DS2 was 4 he spent the best part of an entire week walking on all fours dressed as a cat and demanding we called him Frieda The Cat. He wanted meals under the table, rubbed around our legs pretending to purr and was driven around the local Sainsburys in his trolley (still in the cat onesie) meowing at anyone who walked past. It's perfectly ok for 4 year olds to be ridiculous and silly and cheeky without it meaning they're going to grow up into total tosspots.

PortiaCastis · 09/08/2019 17:34

YABVU

MoreFrog · 09/08/2019 17:36

the child responded in kind to a grown man sticking his tongue out?

At 4 mine would have given him a withering look. Far more effective.

Bluntness100 · 09/08/2019 17:36

I recall another time when she loudly told photographers “You can’t come in, you’re not invited”. I know she’s only four but she’s not being taught to be very gracious.

If she'd told them to fuck off id see your point, but they were photographers, I think that was polite enough from a small child. Gracious four year olds would be sad.

She poked her tongue out, so what. Nice to see the kids have a bit of personality and are not some perfectly behaved adornements.

MustardScreams · 09/08/2019 17:36

Do you understand what love actually means? You have to have a very shallow and boring life to find something like this akin to falling in love.

It’s just parenting? Do you fall in love with strangers and their children on a daily basis? How bizarre.

FuriousVexation · 09/08/2019 17:37

OK OP, I can't do copy paste but for how long have you been "in love" with some royal celebs?

MangoFeverDream · 09/08/2019 17:37

YABU it’s an interaction you’d see on any street corner, nothing special about it.

LakieLady · 09/08/2019 17:37

We need to abolish the Royal Family - this fawning over a 4 year old sticking her tongue out is ridiculous. Retire them all, and then at least their children can start living normal lives.

Well said!

No more monarchs after the current one would be best imo.

I'd like to be a citizen, rather than a subject.

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Mybestfriendisanalien · 09/08/2019 17:38

@FudgeBrownie2019

With the risk of some po faced posters accusing me of being weird/sycophantic/forelock tugging,
your ds sounds absolutely adorable too!

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Bluntness100 · 09/08/2019 17:38

Mine would have got a telling off if they'd shown such bad manners

If it was in response to someone doing it to her, mine would not have. I'd just have said don't do that again sweetheart and left it there.

ElleDubloo · 09/08/2019 17:38

It’s a cute video.

nitgel · 09/08/2019 17:39

Kate etc have put my off the royal family. It is such an antiquated system.

Bluntness100 · 09/08/2019 17:39

You're getting some right bitchy responses on here op, some folks proper clutching st their arse cheeks. Seems they give a lot more fucks than they are letting on. 😂

TinklyLittleLaugh · 09/08/2019 17:40

If the photographers do poke their tongues out at them, then that’s pretty awful.

I thought she was being a rude brat, but if someone is goading her like that then she has an excuse, being only 4.

Iamthewombat · 09/08/2019 17:40

Keep bowing and scraping, OP! That’s what the royal family love. If everybody stopped doing it, what’s down for them? Ask the former royal family of Greece, who are still making a show of themselves pretending to be crown princes of a country that didn’t want them.

IvanaPee · 09/08/2019 17:41

Photographers are literally always doing it to them up to a certain age. I thought that was common knowledge!

FudgeBrownie2019 · 09/08/2019 17:42

your ds sounds absolutely adorable too!

Ha, he really can be lovely. He also used to sit in the trolley shouting "help me, help me" at passers by when he was bored. That was less endearing.

I teach 4 year olds and if the worst behaviour they could engage in was sticking tongues out I'd have such an easy job!

Banangana · 09/08/2019 17:42

Are they though? It seems to me that their parents are very good at keeping them out of the public gaze. We see very little of them really.

But when we do see them, they're posted all over the internet for people to discuss and judge whatever it is they happen to be doing, saying and wearing like on this very thread. Is that not the definition of scrutiny?

Mrsmadevans · 09/08/2019 17:42

'You're getting some right bitchy responses on here op, some folks proper clutching st their arse cheeks. Seems they give a lot more fucks than they are letting on. 😂'
Couldn't have put it better myself Bluntness

BertrandRussell · 09/08/2019 17:42

I think she was behaving like a perhaps slightly overexcited 4 year old. I think an experienced parent should not laugh at or in any way encourage that sort of behaviour.

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Mybestfriendisanalien · 09/08/2019 17:42

Keep bowing and scraping, OP! That’s what the royal family love. If everybody stopped doing it, what’s down for them? Ask the former royal family of Greece, who are still making a show of themselves pretending to be crown princes of a country that didn’t want them.

Case in point @Bluntness100 Wink

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DotForShort · 09/08/2019 17:43

Not cute at all. Not atrocious behaviour, of course, but laughing and encouraging it won’t do that child any favours.

Fawning over the royal family is so cringeworthy. I will never understand it.