to think the royal family should have been more sensitive

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Prince Charles tweeted: "Whether you are a Father, a Dad, a Daddy or a Pa, wishing you a Happy Father's Day!"

How about a short addition thinking of people who have lost their fathers given how many families have been affected by bereavement this year? They could have put 'and thinking of those without their fathers today'

PS my dad passed away, very suddenly and in tragic circumstances, aged 54, about 8 years ago. I was heavily pregnant with DC1, it was awful. I have never been bothered by Father's Day. I certainly don't need some rando Royal to validate it for me

I’m sorry for your loss. It sounds like you’ve had a terrible time of it but you are still being unreasonable. People not wishing others happy Father’s Day won’t really make your loss any easier.

*my phone hadn’t loaded your last post until now.

I appreciate it’s hard and retract my but fwiw my dad is currently battling cancer, DH’s DF died of cancer long before lockdown. Its hard but neither of us begrudge anyone else celebrating or not being ‘sensitive’ and giving us a shout out.

Does everything have to have a caveat now?

Happy birthday...but wishing all those who’s birthday it isn’t today A happy unbirthday.

Happy Mother’s Day, and those who aren’t a mother

Come hear my music...if you’re deaf just feel it

I am not a royalist in anyway. In fact I think we would be fine without them, but come on!

@Pumpertrumper

*my phone hadn’t loaded your last post until now.

I appreciate it’s hard and retract my but fwiw my dad is currently battling cancer, DH’s DF died of cancer long before lockdown. Its hard but neither of us begrudge anyone else celebrating or not being ‘sensitive’ and giving us a shout out.

Thank you, and I'm sorry to hear about your father and FIL

@Soubriquet I know someone who got very upset on my birthday that people weren’t wishing her a happy birthday, we don’t have the same birthday. We’re not friends anymore.

Well his own father is dead so....

Happy Mother’s Day, and those who aren’t a mother
Indeed, if there was a sympathy shout out due to anyone it would surely have been to men who aren't fathers, logically; since it was aimed at the men. Not their children.
Such convoluted nonsense.

Ignore me I miss read your OP

[quote TowelHoarder]@Soubriquet I know someone who got very upset on my birthday that people weren’t wishing her a happy birthday, we don’t have the same birthday. We’re not friends anymore.[/quote]
Is she quite sane??

This is a relatively recent trend. I only noticed it when I became a mother a couple of years ago, and it felt like no one was just wishing a happy Mother’s Day - it was all caveated with a dozen sad scenarios.

I lost my dad 10 years ago, but I enjoy seeing fathers having a good time on their day. I just quietly reflect on my own father

JFC. I can't stand the royals but this is insanity.

OP, I'm so sorry for your loss. I cant imagine how hard today is for you.

However, it is not the responsibility of the rest of the nation to protect your feelings. That's your job.

I’m so sorry to hear about your dad. My dad died 20 years ago, still miss him. In saying that YABU. Prince Charles did nothing wrong in my opinion, he wished all dads a Happy Father’s Day! Absolutely nothing wrong with that.....

Posted too soon, I meant to add to my crotchety reply that I am genuinely sorry you're hurting -but we can't as a society accommodate everyone in everything we say or do.
It's a rough day if you've lost your Dad, and I feel for you. I'm not quite sure why you're singling out the royals though, countless companies and individuals post about it too.

Everyone needs to be sad and considerate because you’ve lost your father? I don’t think so.

No thats fine - it's to the dads which is nice.

I did email Nivea though to complain that they sent me an email suggesting that I bought my dad some skin care. Very much 'your dad' not a dad/a man/ a father figure etc.

My DH died 6 months ago he was a father grandfather and
great grandfather
Neither myself nor my family would feel offended by this.He may have gone from us in body but his spirit is still there.

Actually I would love a day of the dead type thing . Some kind of celebration of those we've lost day. With a snappier title.

His tweet is directed at the Men themselves, the dead can't read tweets. It's sad but lot's of dead men were dads and cannot read twitter due to death, I don't tweet Happy Mothers Day to my dead mum for the same reason.
How have you managed to get offended by that?

You're really reaching with this.

@Thisismytimetoshine I was never 100% certain to be honest, she was however the biggest attention seeker I’ve ever met!

Sorry for your loss.

Yabu though, you got to celebrate your Dad every fathers day till, sadly, this year, without apology to all those who had lost their fathers or even never got to meet them. This is hard for you understandably, but let others enjoy this day while they still can x

If he HAD made any mention of absence (for whatever reason) it would likely be interpreted as a dig about Harry and Archie being Stateside.
Sorry OP but this wasn't tweeted for your benefit or to cause you upset, he was expected to tweet about it so he has done.

YABU.

Arguably, it would have been nice. But let's be honest, it's the royal family. They're so out of touch with how things are for us "regular folk", that it's probably for the best if we keep our expectations low.