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!

Bow, not how.

a bow is a curtesy

It absolutely isn't.

Of course it isn’t.

Well what else would you call it? A pirouette?

Honestly, the suspicion and seeing creepiness in innocuous actions makes me wonder about some posters.

Well I’d just call a bow a bow.

According to the dictionary.

To bend (head, knee or torso) in greeting, consent, **courtesy, acknowledgment, submission, or veneration.

1. To convey (greeting, for example) by bending the body.

Sorry, according to the dictionary a bow is a curtesy.
Anyway, sorry to derail your thread OP.

By condoning PA behaviour by having him there makes everything the royal family do about PA and what he did with Epstein. The children are being used as a human shield to distract from their approval of PA and his attitude towards us commoners.

Yes the curtseying needs to stop and trotting them out like circus animals. I wonder if it will change after the Queen, I think it will have to. The Queen has a lot of goodwill from the public which the others don't have to the same extent. It's sad to see the kids dragged in to it.

Also, I find it odd that the pubic should give them bunches of flowers? They hardly need a bunch of tulips do they, from the garage.

I agree about the curtsey. Not cute at all that a 4 year old child has to curtsey to her great grandmother, a member of her family. Its outdated andcweird. And I'd not let my child within 100 yards of any of the weirdos who's idea of a Christmas day treat is standing outside watching someone else's family go to church! But the Royals do this because their survival and keeping privelege in their family for as long as possible is paramount.

Your having a laugh.
It is not upto you if a little girl copies her mum, who curtsey to our queen.
I feel sad your so bitter about it.
This is not your circus or your monkey.

A bow is different to a curtesy.

Curtesy - a woman's or girl's formal greeting made by bending the knees with one foot in front of the other.
"she bobbed a curtsy to him"

Bow - to bend your head or body forward, especially as a way of showing someone respect or expressing thanks to people who have watched you perform:
They bowed to the Queen.
We bowed our heads in prayer.
He bowed down (= very low) before (= in front of) the king and begged for mercy.

To bend (head, knee or torso) in greeting, consent, *courtesy, acknowledgment, submission, or veneration.

1. To convey (greeting, for example) by bending the body.*

@SwingingBy. you do realise that courtesy isn’t the same thing as curtsy don’t you? Because when I look in the dictionary under “bow” it doesn’t say anything about curtsy

They don't normally traipse the kids to the church services, and they were the only royal kids there. It is a shameless attempt to distract from Andrew and a lesser extent Harry and Megan. There's been loads of stories where these kids have been wheeled out lately as a PR exercise, think the photo of George mixing Christmas pudding with dad, grandad and great granny.

Is the hug woman the woman in the wheelchair who gave her the blow up flamingo?

A bow is a courtesy.
A curtsey is a courtesy.
Courtesy =/= curtsey.

I was taught to curtsey. It's done with a straight back, unlike Theresa May style.

Andrew wasn't at that service with the rest of the royals; he was photographed at the early service with Charles and then was apparently "keeping the Duke of Edinburgh company".

Curtesy/curtsy is specifically for women.

Well what else would you call it? A pirouette?

No, because that also is not a curtsy. Or a bow.

I was interested in this thread until the endless definitions of bows and cuties interrupted it

Curtsies even.

I agree that the Cambridge children are being used as positive PR at the moment. They're cute, dressed very traditionally and hark back to the olden days when the Royal family were looked up to and viewed as role models for the hoi polloi.

There was nothing interesting about this thread unless you're interested in the constant royal family bashing that goes on here.

At least people could make the effort to get the terminology right.

and yet here you are.... !

@DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn I LOVE the royal family. No bashing towards them from me

OFGS! Does no-one think that the Royals are intelligent enough to understand, like most people do, that they are mere mortals? Do you not think that they are teaching their children that they are privileged and that part of that privilege is about upholding traditions and etiquette that have been carried out for centuries. Princess Charlotte is not being taught that her grandma is superior, she is being taught that it is a royal tradition to show your respect to the Queen by curtseying.

In my view, the Queen has long since earnt the respect of much of the nation, she has carried out her duties for which she has been paid, above and beyond expectation. Prince Charles will, in my view make a good king. Britain, without it's Royal family, would be less unique, less respected, and have less historical significance in the world. Continuing those longstanding ceremonial traditions unites generations and instils an important sense of pride in a country which was once one of the most powerful in the world.

Of course, the family is only human, and like generations of royals before them some members will bring scandal and shame on the institution- so what? It all makes for a more interesting history to study in the future.

Doesn't anyone remember how odd and uncomfortable it was being hugged by say, a great aunt who you didn't know when your were small?

Yes, but I wouldn't take it back or wish my parents told them no, it's hardly a traumatic experience, just a bit of discomfort but it makes them happy so why would I resent it?