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?

they do keep the chocolate, and gifts under £150.

I can't believe for a moment that they keep any of it.

An article where,? I seriously doubt that’s true, in fact I’d put good money in it not being.

Why wouldn't it be true? I think it was Hello magazine quoting someone from the palace.

Nah they'll give it away and bin the chocolate in case it's poisoned

Why wouldn't it be true? I think it was Hello magazine quoting someone from the palace.

Why would anyone want their children to receive a hundred selection boxes and teddies from complete strangers?

Of course a spokesperson isn't going to say 'we give the teddies and flowers to a hospital but the food items are disposed of in case they have been tampered with' because that isn't what people want to hear.

In the same way that when your aunt gives you a bath set you don't need or want you don't say 'I'll throw that in the bin later'.

Those 'gifts' are handed over to ladies in waiting or whatever they are called now, companions maybe, and that's the last that anyone in the household will see of them.

You’re right, hello did write that, the risk to the kids would be huge, someone could inject those food stuffs and it would be a tragedy, I suspect the royals just don’t say they destroy,

Why on earth would anyone inject the food? These are people who are cleared by security and who are keen enough on the royals to want to turn up on Christmas Day and wait in the cold.

There are many criticisms we can make about royal protocols but I've never heard paranoia mentioned.

It reminds me of the urban myth in the US about poison and glass in Halloween candy, it always happens at third hand in stories and there is no evidence it happens at all.

It's true, they do get to keep gifts, chocolates and flowers.

I would not be so certain about the givers not believing they keep them, but agree about attracting attention.

Agree it is ridiculous, if they care so much about the royals, support the charities they are patrons of.

When Princess Margaret visited my DM school back in the 50s the school presented her with a doll in their uniform.
My DM was telling me this story while we were visiting WIndsor Castle, she then turned around and the doll was on display in front us!

It's true, they do get to keep gifts, chocolates and flowers.

I don't believe it's true. 🤷‍♀️

I know they can. Legally.

I remember reading something about the legalities in an article about the kohinoor diamond and how other people have to declare gifts over a certain amount but the Royal Family don't.

But I don't believe that those three children are being given all of that stuff on walkabouts and keeping it. Even if someone in Hello Magazine says otherwise.

Even if the chocolate isn't tampered with, why would they let the kids eat cheap supermarket crap when they gave the best artisan organic stuff at home?

Do you think they do though? I’m not so sure everything they eat will be posh same with their off duty clothes etc. surely they hav some normal stuff even if it is M&S

Cadbury had a royal warrant for years. I'm not sure where the idea that, just because you are royal, you don't eat popular stuff comes from. Wasn't Diana lauded for taking the boys to McDonalds? The late Queen was photographed with a box of Bendicks. Why not dairy milk or lindt santas?

The children will surely have been brought up to realise that people will give them different types of gifts including chocolate, taught to accept them gratefully then hand them to the lady in waiting or whoever, never to be seen again. There won't be any subterfuge about swapping them for other chocolates etc.
I'm sure the royal children will eat far better quality chocolate than the cheap Cadburys/ Aldi stuff they get given anyway. No one's handing them a box of handmade chocolates from a top class confectioners.

When I was a teenager doing Young Enterprise we gave one of our products (a wheat pack you heat in the microwave, before they were popular!) to Princess Anne when she came round the exhibition to see what we were selling. We got a letter later saying thank you very much and she had given it to Zara to help her when she fell off her horse. I do still hope that was true!

Cadbury's royal warrant has recently been removed.

No of course not.

The adult royals if you watch them when they are handed things by the public immediately pass them to an aide. They don't keep hold of things because there is no guarantee that what they have been handed is safe and not full of polonium or ricin.

There is NO way little children would be allowed to eat anything where the provenance is not guaranteed. Any royal hater could inject anything into chocolate with a fine needle. It's just not safe and I'm surprised the public don't realise this.

Cadbury's royal warrant has recently been removed.

Where did this idea come from the people in the royal family don't eat like the rest of us?

Yes people could inject stuff, but there is no evidence they have. Why this insistence that things get wasted and couldn't possibly be eaten by anyone?

It seems to me from this thread that the public want the royals to be weird and removed from normal life.

I don't know anything about the royals but I've had experience of families that go to the same schools and they are generally very particular about food/diet for their children - they might get some of the nicer M&S stuff or Tony's but their kids definitely aren't getting Cadbury's selection boxes.
I just can't see why they would let their children eat cheap crap.

It's hard to think people would harm people they don't really know but then why do people drive cars into crowds or shoot school children or attack little Swifties or plant bombs in stadium etc etc.
Always better safe than sorry.

And you know this for a fact do you?

Do I know for a fact that they can afford much better quality stuff? I can have a pretty good guess 😂I don't think their food budget is tight.

I don’t think the royals are particularly strange people and I’m sure they consume chocolate, crisps, McDonald’s etc but I don’t think that the children would be allowed to eat donated items tbh.

Most of the people watching them go to church were harmless eccentrics who would be more likely to try to kiss Louis than poison him, but it would only take one wrong’un.

I can believe that Margaret kept a lovely doll. I’m not cynical enough to think that everything gets chucked. Just food and handmade tat.