To think the Daily Mail fawning over Princess Charlotte is too much

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Five stories today including one on the teacher’s house price and clothes!

And loads of obsequious and grovelling comments about Charlotte and Kate.

“Dearest Catherine - doubt you read the Daily Mail, but please, please grow your family! One or two more babies! They are darling!”

“Royal fans went into meltdown on social media as they reacted to the touching photos of Charlotte's first day.

One wrote: 'Sobbing at pictured of little Princess Charlotte starting school with her big brother”.

What on Earth?
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After looking at the news articles and accompanying photo clips on the right side column, my bro used to call it porn website. That is the reputation of daily fail.

I agree with the shaking hands thing. Definitely encouraged at prep school. When I was teaching I used to stand at the door and shake hands and say 'good morning' to each pupil (state village primary).

The main thing was making eye contact.

I'm not a royalist, but those children should be kept away from the media for their own sakes.

Some of us old enough to remember William's and Harry's first day at school it's just history repeating it's self. There was all this fuss for them, guess it's part of being in the RF.

Don’t like the DM’s nauseating royal fawning?

Then ignore it.

Problem solved.

I am not really interested but I also don’t find it weird in that I am old enough to remember the fuss over prince Williams 1st day of school.

Royals are the ultimate slebs and as we all contribute to the upkeep of the royal family people feel they are ‘owed’ a glimpse into their lives.

I do think they approach things as well as they could and the duchess of Cambridge has the right idea in being absolutely vanilla - nothing to criticize

From the anti-DM bile can one assume that no other news outlet covered this event. Love how people on here trawl the DM site so they can mount their self-righteous horses!

LHReturns I know what a prep school is thanks!

I’ve just asked my husband, who went to private prep, and he says it was absolutely not his experience. So unless you know the policy of this particular school I don’t think you can be so categorical.

Creepy fuckers. Yanbu.

What’s with the multiple photos comparing Charlotte’s first day with George’s first day? They are all ‘how confident is Charlotte compared to poor, shy little George’. George seems like a perfectly normal, delightful little boy to me. #teamgeorge.

@bluetongue I was thinking that as well. They are already starting the comparisons between the two children.

Previously, at the christening, Charlotte was “rude” and George “poised” (or some such bollocks. Whereas now George is glum and shy whereas Charlotte is confident and waves.

We’ve had Charles vs Andrew, William vs Harry and Kate vs Meghan so it’s clear they are already gearing up for George vs Charlotte. Which is ridiculous, they are small children.

*1. Charles divorces Camilla.

1. Charles marries Elizabeth Hurley.
2. William becomes the next Bond.
3. Harry and Meghan do a song and dance act a la Sonny and Cher at their next environmental fashion show sponsored by Vogue, Booking.com, and Visa.
4. Kate hosts next Great British Bake Off for charity.*

You're not the scriptwriter for "The Windsors" by any chance, are you?

I just googled the Daily Mail and Charlotte is no longer the main headline, some Meghan bashing is now in top spot. Second spot is Brexit.

Kokeshi123 - Made me laugh DOC does bake off yeah

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Ok then - I know the policy of this particular school.

Shaking hands and eye contact has been policy at 2 out of the 3 prep schools I have worked at. It is common place.

The DM do this though. They deliberately over-egg the praise and fawning only to shoot them down in flames later.

Or they run an article pointing out obvious faults in someone but dress it up as a compliment. Ie unflattering photos of a celebrity and the DM will go on about how fab they look, but then let the commentators underneath do the hatchet job for them.

YABU to read the daily fail

my inlaws were a bit like that - all the boys were 'confident' but all the girls were 'bolshy' and 'vulgar'

It’s not the nicest to have to face a bank of cameras on your first day at school, but I looked at the video on some news site (BBC?) and what impressed me about the press was they actually were completely silent apart from the camera shutters - no calling the children to look over at them (and they have called the children at other events). So yes they got their photos but didn’t otherwise distract her from dealing with first day at school stuff.

For my middle-aged neighbour, it feels like the royal children are offering her some sort of a "grandmother" experience. She does follow stuff like the first day at school and even had written to Kate with some parenting advice (I think after some photos of royal children misbehaving were published).
She does not read the daily mail otherwise.

It isn't the Daily Mail's fault - they're a newspaper, they exist to make money, they will print what they think people want to read.

We need to abolish the monarchy, it's as simple as that.

You can't blame a newspaper for fawning over the royals, when fawning over the royals is an institutionalised activity simply by virtue of the UK having a monarchy, with traditions of curtseying and addressing them as 'Your Royal Highness' etc.

I do idly wonder what they do to stop them having normal-kid traumas about things like going to school. My youngest loathed school from day one and started sobbing pretty much as we left the house —every day for years—. Do they just send robot clones in their place?

I have no interest in so called Royalty. That sentiment applies equally to Oligarchs.

Couldn’t be doing with shaking all those kids’ hands first thing in the morning- all those germs and bogies, bleurgh!!