Kate and Williams children overexposed

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It is sad to see the children appearing more and more at public events. Yesterday George and Charlotte appeared at wilmbledon and Charlotte gave a player an official coin. Today the children are all over the press.

A few days ago they appeared at the Royal international Air tattoo.
There has been criticism before on the board at the number of appearances thr children make in public. This was said to be temporary due to the death of Elizabeth and Charles as the new king, but it quite clearly is not true.

The children are being increasingly taken to events where William and Kate are working, to help boost the popularity of the Royal family. The children gain nothing from it. I am sure they would have enjoyed the air tattoo far more without a crowd of photographers taking lots of photos of the children.

It's sad to see the children used in this way. So much for giving them a normal childhood.

The 8-year old boy who’d been chosen to toss it was holding it - showed it to Charlotte by handing it to her and she showed George before handing it back to the little boy before the match.

So the 8 year old boy was being expecting to “work” by his parents by tossing the coin for the players before the tennis match? And was being filmed and photographed for a global audience while doing so? I assume people are up in arms about his parents too, then…?

Charles was not wheeled out regularly for photos at events as a child.

charles is in his 70s. The world of social media has changed considerably since then & so have press expectations.

better controlled exposure to teach them boundaries & how to handle press now then later on & watch them crash & burn.

They seem quite fun events to me and seem to enjoy them. Plus I agree that it’s good to give a little exposure so they can learn. We don’t hear them speak which is fair enough. It also means the public get to know them too.
Kate in particular looks like a fantastic mother so I trust her judgment

Charles was wheeled out. The worst was filming him meeting his parents for the first time in a year ( yes a whole year away from him and Anne) when he was only 5 . He shook his parents hands , that meeting should have been in private. He was also filmed at sporting stuff etc and even his school sports day . There was no care for the effect on him. I think K& W are doing a decent job of slowly exposing them , they are always with either one or both parents not alone .

I don't think she is concerned about George, Charlotte and Louis at all.

She is, however, very concerned about having a go at their parents.

I felt for them yesterday at the tennis. Five hours watching tennis for under 10-year-olds. Dear god. I noticed that even djokavic's kids were having problems.

I reckon they were messing around and / or buggered off for some breaks, but there was an agreement with the press not to show that.

The OP is determined to believe that the kids are unhappy and anxious and to take a pop at Kate.
Crack on.
To me they look fine. Why don't you save your concern for all those thousands of kids out there who really are in trouble?

You obviously didn’t watch the match Ohwhatadag.

If you had, you would have noticed that they did actually take a couple of lengthy breaks - the children (and their parents) weren’t there for several games at the start of both of the third and fourth sets. Which was clearly obvious as the Royal box is right behind the server for every second game! And this was also mentioned by the commentary team as well - Andrew Castle even joked that, like Djokovic, the royal children had gone off for a lengthy break, and he didn’t blame them.

George was ordered from a 1950’s catalog.
The jacket, the shirt, the tie.
Not of this century.

You only have to look at the pictures to see that they were fully involved. Both have tennis lessons and play and clearly were totally into it, they also had each other and their parents plus Chris Evert and Billie Jean and various other people explaining stuff to them. George last year was overheard saying he was a Federer fan. To be honest at that age mine would have been fine, it was such an exciting match. Why do people have such low expectations of children.

I think they’re being very sensible about how they approach things. They’re taking them to public events which they know the children will enjoy, and teaching them how to do ‘the job’ at the same time. William and Harry also went to plenty of events at the same age, but there wasn’t 24h news and social media available then, so it was reported once in the papers or the nightly news bulletin. It seems like George and Charlotte are in the news more just because there are more news outlets now.

They probably went to get pizza !

I think they're bringing them out more to counter recent bad publicity. It also helps with the massive sense of entitlement you must have to think having a royal family is in any way acceptable.

OP there is a campaign to plan here! There are many children who are exploited by their parents.

Some are being made to do dangerous things (like deliver drugs) or life-changing things (like appearing on video for sex offenders). Some do long hours of work - to earn money for their household or support a parent's business.

Going to watch a Wimbledon final or even giving an award to someone and being photographed (in the happy company of your family) doesn't seem to be quite in this catagory. :)

Reviewing the photos, there looks to be much love and affection between parents and children in that royal family. I would imagine that knowing their children will face much attention and photography in the future, they know that it is wise to get them comfortable with it at a young age. (Children who -like King Charles- came to the whole thing later at a time in life when already awkward and shy found it harder to adjust.)

Although this is not always the case, I think you can probably trust the parents to do the best this time. They know and love the children. We only know the little we are told.

They have some incredible opportunities that other children can only dream of. They are fortunate in that they have the best security and whatever else so the risk to them being in the press is nothing compared to the parents who exploit their children online for clicks and a few quid.

It's the other side of the coin to their very privileged life.
My DS doesn't have to sit through a 5 hour tennis match, behaving impeccably. But he also won't have some of the amazing experiences they will have

What the hell do you suggest they do? Keep them hidden until they turn 18? Until they leave University? This is the life they are born into so far better they get limited controlled exposure at this age and get used it.

And like you really care about the welfare of the children - an opportunity to bash the parents maybe?

I think it is responsible parenting to gradually get the children used to press attention. They have mainly been seen at Royal celebrations and sporting events. OP- Would you rather they were kept under wraps until they're young adults and have to suddenly deal with the barrage of the press? By allowing the press limited access to their children they manage to have privacy the rest of the time. I think that it is great that Kate takes the majority of the photos of the children that are released to the press, which is obviously far more comfortable for them.

I think taking them is actually lovely as they seem to really enjoy sport
I loved the pics of George at the cricket
It was more chilled than Wimbledon but that's just the nature of the event

I really enjoy taking my dc to adult events that they appreciate and it would be so nice to do it without concern about travel, parking etc as that makes it so much nicer for the dc and easier.

It's only to me like taking my 9 yo dd to a music concert and keeping her up late !!

I would have literally killed to be able to go to see Wimbledon at their ages!! I was glued to the TV watching it at home, and then my younger brother and I, who had been watching with me, thought we were Connors or Billie Jean King, practicing in our back yard when there were no matches on!

Honestly, if brains were taxed, some people here would be in for a huge rebate...!!

And William was not expected to work as a child like Charlotte has presenting a ceremonial coin. She is eight!

There's lots of photos of William doing "Royal work" as a child.

Other royal children aren't seen so much in public because their parents aren't working royals. George and Charlotte's parents are the future king and queen.

Attending the odd event here and there is getting ready for public life. Crowds, cameras, people wanting to greet them will become common place. If I were kept locked away from the public eye by my royal parents until I was 16/18, I would be shitting myself before my first public appearance, and probably have severe anxiety over doing public engagements. Whereas if I had been doing them for as long as I could remember, what would there be to feel anxious or upset about?

This is the life their parents brought them into. They are the children of the future king. They are expected to do this crap for the rest of their lives. It makes sense for them to grow up with it feeling normal and just part of their lives.

This is the life their parents brought them into.

Yeah, we all have our own row to hoe. I don't think I'd be super upset if my row hoeing involved attending Wimbledon sometimes.

i think they do well, we don't see much of them.
what I hate is the way the press and people talk about them, bossy, anxious , and don't get me started on the comments about Louis.
they are nice children and should be left alone.

I don't think they are "fantastic " parents. they are doing their best like most parents.