Trooping the colour booing

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AIBU to think this was well deserved?

Kate can glower at people as much as she wants but the monarchy is a rotten institution and people are getting more and more annoyed by it

It's the children I feel sorry for. I guess they will have to get used to it though I guess.

I feel sympathy in a way, because they’ve been used as shields by their family. But they benefit massively.

@theresalighttofindyou
Why don’t you start a revolution and storm Buckingham Palace like the French revolutionaries stormed Versailles?
Since so many people are fed up with the monarchy I’m sure you’ll find plenty of willing sans culottes.

Is that the only way to protest?

Is that the only way to protest.

It’s the most effective.
Guillotine or firing squad?

I'm anti monarchy, but booing children is a dick move. Not surprised Kate looked annoyed, I'd be very pissed off and protective if someone was verbally abusive to my children, especially if those children had no say in what they have been born into. Good for her for not pretending to just accept it.

I really don't think the children benefit at all. Their lives are all mapped out before they are even born. They don't get any real choices about their life. Everyone knows who they are, they have no freedom, every day life is mapped out with security they carnt just decide for example to visit a friends house. I wouldn't want to wish being born royal on any child.

Who are the booers and why are they booing? Trooping the Colour is on one of our big traditions, attracting big crowds. Anyone who is not happy with it is free to fuck off

I’m not sure the children benefit massively. They’re pretty much bred into captivity and paraded around for the peasants to clap/jeer/gawp at.

It’s not a life I’d want for my children.

No benefit at all. They get shipped off to b school as teenagers, albeit not as young as they used to but its no life.

This is why I think the European “economy” versions of the monarchy are so much better than our “luxury” version involving hundreds of hangers on and thousands of grace and favour homes. All the monarch’s children other than the heir are brought up in the expectation of earning their own living, and I think even the King of the Netherlands worked for KLM as a pilot before acceding to the throne.

Because it's what spiteful cunts do. Full of hate and still living in the past. Never looking inwards, mocking and bitching about the monarchy and nice sunny days out for patriots.

I’m with you OP 💕

I’m not against the booing tbh.
I feel for the kids though, one of my children was born at the same time as George and I remember thinking how sad it is that his whole life was mapped out already as a newborn whereas mine would be able to grow and be whoever he was meant to be.

Would you accept people shouting abuse at your children? Why should she then ?

Well it's a bit braver than booing from the safety of a crowd

Edited to say you're BU for putting this shit in AIBU instead of the RF board.

Benefit in what way, used as shields how? Why shouldn't they protect their kids like any other parent? Your OP isn't exactly showing you in a good light if you think booing kids is something to feel proud of.

The children arguably benefit in that they are very unlikely to ever be in the position of lacking basic needs, material things, opportunities, and even what most would consider luxuries (look at Andrew, for example) - but that shouldn't be a benchmark as no child and no human should lack access to those things. Their perceived "privilege" only makes sense because we live in a society where others are intentionally, structurally, and systemically underprivileged. That aside, something about the lifelong, inescapable Royal fishbowl makes their situation different from just rich kids or celeb kids in general.

When you say people, you mean you and all the other miserable bunch.

The same miserable bunch who will sit scowling when the England football team play.

They’ll inevitably marry people who are as privileged and wealthy as they are. And they’ll never face the possibility of having to live out their last days in a substandard care home.

You don’t dismantle the police, or the BBC, or any other organisation that had a bad apple. You build safeguards and make sure they don’t get the opportunities in future.

I think that they have to accept it's part of being in an institution that not everyone agrees with. They live lives of extraordinary privilege and I would imagine they can cope with a bit of booing. I think Katherine was watching them in case anyone made a move towards her and the children, or in anticipation of someone maybe throwing something, which is what any protective mother would do. But I don't actually think the protesters were doing anything wrong. We don't all have to bow and scrape to the royal family!

They don't know they are privileged as everyone they mix with will have the same as them, albeit more private wealth, but day to day their friends will be as rich as them.

It can’t be nice for the children, but their parents should stop parading them around at these events if they don’t want them seeing it. People say that the children have to be part of these things because they’re in training and have to get used to Royal life, well then based on that argument they need to see that some people don’t want them, that’s all part of this so called training too then.

The way the children were used at Christmas was appalling. They were taking selfies with strangers, Charlotte even hugged one of them and William introduced all of his children to a man who is basically a stalker. They use their kids to gain favour, look everyone cute kids, so I don’t have much sympathy when they get a dose of the other side.

They should parent and protect their children better, but if they won’t and continue to use them at events, then they’re going to see these things because we allow protesting, as we should.

Opinions may vary. They’ll have to cope with that.