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

239 replies

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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EleanorReally · 09/08/2019 18:16

all 4 year olds do this, i can't blame her, all those press, all those cameras. so intrusive.

MarshaBradyo · 09/08/2019 18:17

Lol at the Queen not the boat. She is the image of the queen

Btw re your post you’ve found your calling op PR for the royals

sue51 · 09/08/2019 18:19

She's an average 4 year old girl. Most 4 year olds are rather cute and all have the occasional breach of good manners. Odd to fall in love with one you have never met and you are not related to.

SoupDragon · 09/08/2019 18:20

Or getting at people you disagree with.

I'm not the one trying (and failing) to come over all superior.

lovelookslikethis · 09/08/2019 18:20

Kate's face when she first saw it was a picture of absolute fury, quickly exchanged for a laugh when she realised the world's press were recording the whole thing.

Charlotte is going to be the biggest handful of them all mark my words, she will be the one to watch :)

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Kate is saying in her head ' don't you dare embarrass me now!!!!!!" Granny is looking very miffed too.

Hilarious!

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 09/08/2019 18:22

The 👸 not the 🚢.
Glad you cleared that one up. I was think, bit harsh, isn’t itGrin

gingersausage · 09/08/2019 18:23

Exactly what @DotForShort said.

Obviously no 4 year old knows how to behave perfectly, but that’s why we, you know, parent them 🙄. Mine would have got “the look” in public or I’d have bent down and whispered sternly. That’s what I would’ve expected HRH to do (if I’d even thought about it before I read this thread).

Badly behaved children aren’t adorable, they are irritating and if you don’t start young with the minor stuff, you’ve only got yourself to blame when you are on here wondering why your 12 year old is a pain in the arse.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 09/08/2019 18:24

She is a little character, definitely,

QuckTheDuck · 09/08/2019 18:29

I can't get over the fact that Charlotte is essentially wearing a school dress that cost over £100! Confused

heath48 · 09/08/2019 18:29

I wondered how long it would be before a thread about this insignificant incident would appear.

Ihopeyourcakeisshit · 09/08/2019 18:35

I think there is an inevitability about the Cambridge offspring being 'cheeky/rude/ungracious at times.
They will undoubtedly pick up on some of the resentment the family have of the press because of what happened to Diana.
I remember Charlotte commenting at Louis' christening that people couldn't come because they weren't invited or some such thing.
Obviously she isn't old enough to realise that her privilege comes with duty, but I don't believe for one minute she isn't absorbing the irritation her family will sometimes have regarding press and public interest.

bluegirlgreen · 09/08/2019 18:37

@Mybestfriendisanalien

YANBU. I love the Royals. And am also a big fan of Kate (and little Charlotte.) Incredibly cute! Grin

bluegirlgreen · 09/08/2019 18:39

There are some miserable feckers on this thread. Must be horrible to be so sour and negative.

Have some flowers.... Flowers Try and cheer up, you grumpy old gits.

BettyBooJustDoinTheDoo · 09/08/2019 18:45

I wonder if the OP would have started such a fawning thread if she had seen a non royal child in Sainsbury’s poke their tongue out and the mother had the same interaction as Kate did with Charlotte, would she haven “fallen in love” with the normal child and it’s parent? Somehow I doubt it.

NotEven · 09/08/2019 18:45

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

I agree. I’m sure they are nice enough people but I don’t understand why people think they are ‘special’. They should step down. Royalty is a ridiculously outdated concept.

PolkaDotted · 09/08/2019 18:47

It must be even more horrible to have your head firmly embedded up the Royal Family's backsides.

lololove · 09/08/2019 18:47

Haven't finished the thread yet so this might have been mentioned but apparently she was "team mum" on the race (that she lost) and it was her dad that she was pointing to and it was Prince William that Charlotte was sticking her tongue out at - not the public.

Rachelover40 · 09/08/2019 18:53

I like (what I see of) all the little royals, they seem great and Princess Charlotte is a gem.

BettyBooJustDoinTheDoo · 09/08/2019 18:54

When I see pictures of George it baffles me that this 4 year old is going to be our head of state and head of the Church of England how in this day and age can this possibly be? It feels so wrong to me that you are just born into that position and not elected. Time the royals were downgraded (if we have to have them at all) to ribbon cutting and nothing more.

Iamthewombat · 09/08/2019 18:54

This thread is hilarious. Anybody who doesn’t want to simper over the royal family is, we learn, ‘a miserable fecker’, ‘sour’ and ‘negative’. You’ve been brainwashed well, eh?

SeigneurLapindeGrantham · 09/08/2019 18:56

Anyone else think that Charlotte looks like Carol Middleton much more so than the Queen?

TheBigBallOfOil · 09/08/2019 18:58

Surely having a life so empty that you are interested in these worthless people is the definition of miserable.

separatelives · 09/08/2019 18:59

She's a royal. No doubt she'll grow up with the same sense of entitlement as the rest of them.

londonloves · 09/08/2019 19:04

I honestly had no idea that the poking out of a tongue was considered such rudeness/bad behaviour... really? What does it matter?

Bugsymalonemumof2 · 09/08/2019 19:10

If it was my 4 year old is just be thankful she didn't squeal "fart" and pretend to fart.

Kids are kids, royal or not