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.

I think it’s good, it will be their full time job as adults to be royals.

Amazingly it took 8 pages. That must be some sort of a record.

Unlike the whole of this thread which is children bashing?

I don’t think that this thread is full of children bashing - I think raising children who will be in the public eye is a difficult challenge for the Wales’ and I think there has been near enough consensus that it cannot be avoided but is being managed as best as they can. There is a little bit of too ing and fro ing about pathologising very young children and what would be reasonable - is calling a child anxious and sensitive equal to calling them cheeky - I personally don’t think so but again shows how we need to avoid putting labels on these children.

But surely this is a forum for Mums and half the threads or posts are to do with mums helping other mums with parenting, and that can include children who are sensitive, or struggle, or are going through a difficult phase...?

Helping mums with parenting who’ve asked for help? Or doling out advice about where a child whom the posters have never met should go to school?

Please don't direct that at me because I'm not doing that.

I was talking with another poster about children who are not George being called sensitive

I think K and w choose events wisely. The children are likely to enjoy them and they will unconsciously take in how their parents behave - chatting to officials, trying to put ball kids at ease, showing empathy to players. Hopefully it will make the DC feel reasonably positive that this is in their future.
Unlike earlier generations these children are not chased by paparazzi going about their daily lives. So hopefully they can feel the difference when going to a public event with their parents versus just having normal private time.

I think it's a tricky tightrope to navigate, but on the whole, I think Kate and William do a good job managing it. While William doesn't know what 'normal' life looks like, Kate does. She's probably also acutely aware of how to play the press and minimise shitty headlines. Ultimately we don't know what is the right approach, but that could be said of any parent.

To be fair, that's what Eton is for, to "toughen them up".

I'm enjoying the concern trolling going on here, even though the kids are with their parents and looking like they’re enjoying themselves immensely. As children of the future king, they will naturally be more exposed to the media and public. I think it’s great that william and Kate are helping the kids deal with the exposure by slowly introducing them to the media in a controlled environment.

Weird how suddenly concerned some pro sussex fans have been regarding the wales kids. Like Misan Harriman who is so worried about the Wales kids being publicised in the media and yet has taken intimate photos of the sussex kids in the bath, only to be shown in a Netflix documentary. Where’s their concern for the sussex kids I wonder?

I'm wondering if I've been watching different coverage to a lot of the posters on here. Both George & Charlotte looked like they were having a great time. Charlotte on particular seemed to be really involved in following the match.

I think W&K have a good balance. The kids are seen more, but as children of the heir to the throne & GC of the King its understandable they're going to be more involved at events.

Their life is going to be public & it's probably a good idea getting them more & more used to it as they grow up

Apart from perhaps the Coronation & ofcourse the funeral they always seem to be enjoying whatever event they're at

I'm a Republican to the core-but I do worry about George. I am the parent of a young adult who was an anxious child and I think I can spot anxiety at a million paces. I'd like to swoop in and adopt him. I do hope they don't send him away to school.

I don’t know if it’s the photos the press decide to choose, but George often appears anxious to me too. Chewing his lip, contorting his face. I don’t feel he is comfortable at all with the cameras on him, poor little boy. Louis often looks understandably bored and I think Charlotte looks like she copes better in the glare of the spotlight and is good at hiding any boredom. I think considering how unnatural all this is for young kids, they do very well. I don’t think they are over exposed, I just feel it’s a strange and unnatural thing for any child to have to make public appearances.

Charles was at his mother's coronation, he was at boarding school since he was about 10, as were his two sons.

As for 'using children' Harry was taken on Charles tour of South Africa a couple of months after his mother's death.

It's got absolutely nothing to do with you OP. I'm sure William and Kate have discussed it and are going with what they think works. I'm sure it will be easier when they are older as they will be used to being in the public eye. I seem to remember seeing plenty of William and Harry when they were children.

I wonder if Kate, or William if he is allowed as he is male, although I am sure there is conspiracy on that, was on here and posted about all the judgement she was getting as a mother would that go down as well as 'normal' parents?

There is heaps of 'experts' on what Kate and William should or should not do but lots of parents complaining how judged they feel on here as parents themselves

Also, I think there's too much Kate at Wimbledon.

😂😂😂🙄🙄🙄

How can a photo of a child be “unflattering”?

It seemed OK in terms of "exposure" at Wimbledon. I wondered whether there was some sort of agreement with the BBC - showing them maybe a couple of times a set only!

@AliceOlive Not sure what you mean be "weaponising sensitivity." You're the one who seems to be taking the word as a criticism!

@MamoruHisaishi
Ok - do you really not get it ?
This is about the treatment of young children as a result of them being born into a hereditary monarchy.
Harry has gone.
He is not tax payer supported .
He and his family are not relevant to this discussion , music has you may hate them

People are being manipulated by MSM into criticising Harry in order to shield / deflect criticism from the remaining Windsor scroungers.
Try thinking outside the box

@CurlewKate

I don’t know about Wimbledon , but the ‘royals’ control and ‘own’ BBC footage in which they appear, esp events.
They censor the footage afterwards to produce a package that is acceptable to the ‘royals’

@Novella4 yes, I understand that. I was thinking about the live coverage of Wimbledon where there must have been some sort of deal made.

Novella what about other tv channels? Do they ‘censor’ those too?

But they showed about the same amount of shots of the other celebrities, members of player’s families and other randoms in the crowd as they did the Waleses. The family did leave the royal box twice too as was alluded to by Andrew Castle. And most people expect television coverage of a tennis match to concentrate on … the tennis 🙄

This is about the treatment of young children as a result of them being born into a hereditary monarchy.

So, presumably children whose parents have decided they will claim and use titles based solely on their proximity to the hereditary monarch fall squarely into this discussion?

So, presumably children whose parents have decided they will claim and use titles based solely on their proximity to the hereditary monarch fall squarely into this discussion?

Well, quite. Not that I have anything particular to say about them, or indeed have any interest in them, but they absolutely meet the criteria.