Are the children allowed to eat the chocolate from strangers?

[EachandEveryone]

Also ref to the Christmas Day service. Why do people give them daft stuffed toys and chocolate? How do you say no you can’t eat them to a six year old? Where does it all go to?

I have wondered this also. There is no way those children are eating food items given to them by randomers. The possibility of sabotage is too obvious. They'd be tossed clearly.

I also cannot understand why people give them gifts. The richest and most privileged people around and they are given gifts from people? Madness.

I imagine the food is tossed and the toys given to a local charity.
I doubt the flowers are kept at the big house either, where would they put them all? I bet staff are allowed to take a bouquet home at the end of the day.

No, absolutely not. It will be binned, someone could have tampered with it.

Why are people spending money to give to the elite rather than people in need?
Folk really are weird!

I also cannot understand why people give them gifts. The richest and most privileged people around and they are given gifts from people? Madness.

Exactly what I thought when I saw some pics from Christmas Day. Flowers when there’s a death or they’re visiting somewhere, fine, but gifts? I just don’t get it.

I once read that any flowers are taken to care homes etc

Maybe they take the chocolate and replace with something similar that they know is safe. That's what I do for my DC with allergies.

I believe the flowers are sent to local hospitals

I've always just assumed that they are like a proxy family for lonely people. I think that's fine if it lets someone feel like they can hand a little gift to someone they have watched grow from a babe in arms to a child. There's no harm in it.

I doubt the kids are desperate for chocolate like that, they will be given whatever is deemed appropriate by their parents. The chocolate and all other gifts will be handed to staff who will deal with it, anything edible will be disposed of. And the kids will know this. But still be polite.

I read that the flowers get donated to hospices and residential homes. I imagine any gifts or cuddly toys do too, just on the basis that all the Paddington Bears that were left outside Buckingham Palace got donated to Children’s charities. I’m not sure about the chocolates, perhaps if they come fully wrapped and there’s no evidence of tampering, they too get given to charity/food banks etc?

I’ve just read that William turned some gifts down on the children’s behalf and told some people to keep the chocolate for themselves.

I highly doubt that your child is being given chocolates in such quantities, as the royal children are though.

I would hope it gets chucked, those people giving it seem like complete odd bods.

Good for him. His children have absolutely no need for these "gifts". They will be, quite rightly allowed to keep nothing, and any edibles have to be disposed of. I would not be willing to take a chance, and eat anything that I know had been given to them, why should other people?

I assume that some of the people fancy being able to tell the story of when they gave one of the kids a gift or fancy being interviewed about the moment.

It is silly though. The kids aren’t going to keep the toys or eat the chocolate.

The risk of tampering would be too high I think. Only takes one nut job.

The Paddingtons were laundered and then given to children. I doubt it is publicised, for fear of hurting someone's feelings, but I expect that there is a well oiled machine for dealing with food gifts in a way that doesn't waste them.

Food gifts that could have been tampered with are chucked

Flowers go to hospices/hospitals/care homes/other local charities with public-facing premises that might like a cheer-up
Non-tamperable food to food banks
Other gifts to suitable charity/community recipients

I find this so cringy, handing these most privaledge dc bloody chocolate when dc without parents, in foster homes etc get very little.
I bet it all gets chucked there is no way they could give these chocolates to anyone else in case of poison.
Didn't princess Anne once say havant you anything better to do?it's so cringy I can't imagine giving my small dc bloody choclate to hand over to a royal princess??

I’m sure expectations are set before the walk that the children say thank you and accept graciously but they won’t be keeping any of it.

I doubt the royal kids have ever eaten a Cadbury selection box 😂 UPF at its finest.

I think it’s a way of getting them to come near you…which is the point. I doubt they believe they will keep them.

Yeah life is a complex thing and we are kinda wired to watch other people living their lives on TV, social media. Whatever.

So like animals in a zoo?

According to an article i read this morning they do keep the chocolate, and gifts under £150. Flowers get sent to old people's homes. I expect they share it out with everyone who is staying.

I'm glad it gets eaten.