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To love Meghan and Harry but think they need to let us see the kids?

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hotmumshit · Yesterday 20:00

I'm no Meghan hater, but, if youre coming back to the uk and royal life, I do think the kids need to be shown.

Just like i like seeing Louis and the others, theyve got little personalities we want to see 🤷‍♀️

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hotmumshit · Yesterday 20:59

Papyrophile · Yesterday 20:55

The Waleses do a great job balancing their public-private roles. We are paying towards their lives so snapshots of the kids are expected, but they are mostly taken by the Princess of Wales, who is extremely good at giving just enough. HaM are going to have to work hard to find a comfortable balance.

Agree with this - i am not asking for tabloids hacking their mobiles or anything, just seeing the kids a little, In the same controlled way we do with wills kids

Ive really warmed to Katherine through the kids, and it could be the same for Harry and meghan

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Blueuggboots · Yesterday 21:00

They are not working royals so we don’t get to see their kids.

nomas · Yesterday 21:00

Papyrophile · Yesterday 20:55

The Waleses do a great job balancing their public-private roles. We are paying towards their lives so snapshots of the kids are expected, but they are mostly taken by the Princess of Wales, who is extremely good at giving just enough. HaM are going to have to work hard to find a comfortable balance.

It’s usually a picture realised on their birthday, hardly hard work.

godmum56 · Yesterday 21:01

hotmumshit · Yesterday 20:04

I'm surprised by the poll. Not intending to ask a silly question, but why?

Part of the royals deal is that we get a photo every year and see them during the Trooping the Colour, which I love.

its been made massively clear that they are not coming back to royal life.

hotmumshit · Yesterday 21:01

bafta16 · Yesterday 20:57

Poor Louis, bored out of his head by those hideous , boring sporting events or celebrationsn with ancient rock stars.

Camp? I don't think so.
George looks like he'd rather be anywhere else.

I loved seeing Louis making clear how bored he was 😄 - made them so much more human to me

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nomas · Yesterday 21:01

godmum56 · Yesterday 21:01

its been made massively clear that they are not coming back to royal life.

Never say never.

CatamaranViper · Yesterday 21:01

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Randomlygeneratedname · Yesterday 21:02

Personally don't care much about any of the Royal Family and care even less to see the kids. I feel incredibly sad for them to grow up in a life with zero privacy, with people constantly trying to take their photo and make comments about what them. I don't understand what anyone gets out of seeing the babies/children of famous people, but then, the only pictures of children I really enjoy seeing are pictures of my own. I

Knickerstoya · Yesterday 21:02

Directly171717171717 · Yesterday 20:58

This is what the press always do with the royal kids. The oldest is always portrayed as sensible and serious. The younger siblings are always naughty/cheeky/wild. If there’s more than one then they give one of them the solid/reliable/down to earth personality. It doesn’t matter what they’re actually like in reality.

This

nomas · Yesterday 21:02

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Just horrible. Leave OP alone.

pimplebum · Yesterday 21:03

They have had racially motivated death threats and no decent security

i am curious and would like to see the kids faces but not at the risk they would be harmed

HRTQueen · Yesterday 21:03

AutumnCrowSeason · Yesterday 20:55

Unfortunately Meghan’s photos do tend to get all over the news cycle.

And very easiy to move on from the stories always plenty of other news

but the are printed because people do click on them often so they can get all stupidly angry about how much they hate them 🙄

Cakeandcardio · Yesterday 21:04

No child should be shown online.

Spidey66 · Yesterday 21:04

Wtf? I’m not a supporter of royalty but even if I was , why bring the kids into it?

hotmumshit · Yesterday 21:04

WerewolfOfLoudon · Yesterday 20:57

Follow her Instagram @hotmumshit

Genuinely thought H&M were very limited on pics of the kids. Not that I actually care but definitely respect anyone in the public eye for keeping their kids out of it.

I have just followed since I heard they were coming back 😅

Saw the photo of the 4 of them, with the kids obscured

Dunno, they arent influencers trying to get on Strictly, just pop a photo of the four of you and call it day imo, as much as i love them

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Randomlygeneratedname · Yesterday 21:05

Cakeandcardio · Yesterday 21:04

No child should be shown online.

This!

user293948849167 · Yesterday 21:06

They’re not working royals, their kids are never going to be working royals, nobody has a right to see photos of them.
It’s different with William’s kids because their Dad is going to be King and George will be King one day so they are in the public eye whether they like it or not. I still don’t think that gives the press the right to follow kids around taking unofficial photos though

hotmumshit · Yesterday 21:06

nomas · Yesterday 21:02

Just horrible. Leave OP alone.

Thank you - I think ive posted respectfully and been very clear that I am approaching this as a supporter of them 🤷‍♀️

Some people just want an excuse to get angry dont they

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Tontostitis · Yesterday 21:06

hotmumshit · Yesterday 20:08

That makes me sad as I genuinely didnt think I was

Its not like theyre some influencers or uk celebs - that would be weird to care

These are royals - funded by the tax payer, held up to us all as the UK's family.

Will and Harry had too much intrusion growing up, i'm sure, but i dont think wills kids do

If youre coming back as a working royal, living off the taxpayer - i dont see why a photo and a trip to Trooping the Colour is too big an ask 🤷‍♀️😬

Harry and Meghan are not funded by the British taxpayer you are basing your very strange opinions on false information.

nomas · Yesterday 21:08

hotmumshit · Yesterday 21:06

Thank you - I think ive posted respectfully and been very clear that I am approaching this as a supporter of them 🤷‍♀️

Some people just want an excuse to get angry dont they

Yes, you have been respectful.

The posts by Autumn were particularly bizarre. No one is even allowed to care about or want to see the kids apparently!

SilenceInside · Yesterday 21:09

Why do you even want to see pictures of their children as some kind of payment in kind for them being royals? Why not just pictures of them as a couple at any official royal engagements they participate in? It’s so odd to focus on their children as if you have some right to access them.

PrestonHood121 · Yesterday 21:10

Knickerstoya · Yesterday 20:09

They’re not working royals.

Yet, Harry keeps demanding tax payer funded security for them all. According to him, its his "birthright" and so on and so on.

FlowerUser · Yesterday 21:10

I suspect the King is paying for their security.

And I assume you are aware that The Crown was fictional, based on real life, so you know that many of the personalities and conversations were actually made up? If you like Princesses Anne and Margaret in it, then presumably you liked the actors who played them in the way they were directed to, using the words written in a script.

The Crown is not real life, though it may have been very close. But Harry and Meghan and their children do live real lives, in the real world, and there is nothing wrong with protecting their children's images from being exploited by others.

As grandchidren of the reigning monarch, Archie and Lilibet have the titles of Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.

godmum56 · Yesterday 21:11

nomas · Yesterday 21:01

Never say never.

did I say never?

AndImVictoriaMalcolm · Yesterday 21:11

I’m not a M&H hater, more disinterested and think that the royal family need to no longer be a thing.

Considering the hostility towards this couple I think keeping their children out of public life is the best thing they could do for them. I hope that the media leave the children alone completely and, ideally, their parents too.

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