Princess Charlotte 'hugging' lady.

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Is anyone else finding the newspaper headlines annoying this morning. Princess Charlotte did not hug the lady in the wheelchair, the lady hugged her. Which is inappropriate. You don't hug a small child in the street!

Defo not cute!

Her parents have been in the Royal Family long enough to know that if you go to such an event people will try to touch you. They should have either kept the kids at home or kept them away from the crowd. Or PW could have carried her if they didn't want her near the crowds, she's only 5, she can't be that heavy. Or maybe her parents thought it was all fine and normal, in their world.

I don’t like the royals and I think the people sat in the freezing cold waiting for them on Christmas Day are completely nuts/odd. I don’t generally care what they do or don’t do but I have a 4 year old too, she isn’t royal or a potential target as they are but I sure as hell would not be happy if a strange woman sat in a wheelchair tried to hug her. I think generally touching anyone’s children be it their head, hand, face whatever out and about is weird and I’d not be happy if someone did it to my child. The fact the woman was in a wheelchair makes no difference! You shouldn’t touch anyone else’s kids in public (royal or otherwise!) unless you are well known to the child and their parents and the child and parent are ok with it.

I didn’t find it cute, I thought it was a bit odd. I felt sorry for charlotte.

I agree with you Op. I also agree with the pp who mentioned people hugging Harry when his mum has died. Just because they are royals, it doesn't mean they don't have the same rights as other children.
My dc is Middle Eastern but our dcs are fair and blue eyed which is much admired there because it's uncommon. People often tried to touch my dcs when they were little (or even take their picture). I often bumped heads with the ILs about this.

an inflatable flamingo

*Snort. I wonder how long that gift was in the planning.

I'd have kept the kids away for a few more years I think if possible.

I wonder if many/any traditions will change when Charles takes over?

I wonder if the "younger" ones enjoy it or would rather be at home with their on kids?

Jesus Christ. It was a hug ffs.

Not all children hate being hugged. Seems a lot of people projecting their own feelings. As others have said I'm sure security would step in if necessary.

If Kate and William hadn't been alright with it, it wouldn't have happened.

The children had clearly been prepped.

It's not for you to pick on a random frail woman and be all if the child's own parents condoned it

I thought of what mumsnetters would say, last week at work, when heaven forbid. Other parents were comforting a baby who's mum had left her for a few minutes.

Though, yes having RTFT, I completely agree with the :

Who are the people who stand outside in December cold on Christmas morn to watch another family walk to church, sit/stand there outside for the duration of a church service, in the hope of a handshake and then watch them leave again?

Fucking madness.

I’m interested in those who are saying if Catherine/William hadn’t been happy with the hug it wouldn’t have happened how you think they’d have stopped it?

It’s not as if the woman asked permission from either of them? It happened quite quickly. I don’t think Catherine would cause a scene by jumping in and saying no and pulling Charlotte back. Doesn’t mean they were ok with it though.

I think it’s pretty awful the way the royal family sacrifices their kids in order to keep themselves popular.

They did it in the most appalling way when they made the young princes walk behind their mothers coffin. Now they are offering up William and Kate’s kids in the same way. Those kids did not look happy at all.

Harry an Meghan may be dickheads but I hope they have the sense to keep Archie out of the unlicensed eye.

Yeh, not being dramatic but there was something a bit............. odd about that photo.

I'm sure charlotte is fine, sure they know of the woman, but it did seem to take us back twenty years to a time when children were expected to just shut up and put up with the hugs.

Well everyone is talking about the children rather than Airmiles Andy and his dodgy doings so I'd say the strategy worked perfectly for the Royals.

I’m interested in those who are saying if Catherine/William hadn’t been happy with the hug it wouldn’t have happened how you think they’d have stopped it?

By having left them with Beatrice or Sophie Wessex to wave from afar whilst W and K did the handshaking

@RedHelenB well that's incorrect.

Security don't play any part in the messages that are absorbed by a royal child throughout the course of his/her childhood. Security don't say ''Ma'am, your not having adroightly stopped this hug in its tracks - without offending the lady in the wheelchair of course - will play a part in a message that your child received here today, possibly that message might be that one has less right to a boundary when the person overstepping it is vulnerable, ma'am

So, lol at security being relevant here!

Yes, this takes the spotlight off Pervert Andrew alright.

Well everyone is talking about the children rather than Airmiles Andy and his dodgy doings so I'd say the strategy worked perfectly for the Royals.

Yes, absolutely. They are meat shields. Her father and his brother served the same function at their mother's funeral, which was about as breathtakingly cynical a move as it must be possible to make and of which the younger son, at least, has been openly critical.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has used the same tactic with his children, as did John Gummer who years ago fed his daughter a burger to prove the 'safety' of beef during the BSE crisis.

To think there are people who struggle for years and are still unable to become parents.

The entire Windsor family, their modus operandi and their exploitative behaviour (yes it is, and in many different ways) disgust me.

Also Diana did the EXACT same with the Princes as boys, so William will be thinking of his mothers approach at Christmas

She once said something like "I'm the only mother in the country teaching her children to talk to strangers"

I think a lot of you missed out on your annual box of grips for Christmas.

If Charlotte or Catherine hadn’t wanted it to happen- it wouldn't have happened!

There are far more important/ worrying things to be getting in a state over than a child being hugged 🙄🙄

Oh Mogg and using his children, particularly the eldest, as a pawn to claim the moral high ground with

Next year, odds on, William and Kate go to her family and Harry and Meghan go Sandringham

Noticed both Tindalls and Phillips's went to in laws this year

Yes, not only are they parading their children to strangers - they are putting them in the path of, let's face it, mostly nutters.

I do think the children were being used cynically to focus attention away from everyone wondering about Andy and how he was spending his day.