Footage of Charlotte

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Does anyone else feel really uncomfortable about the photos the RF have put out of Charlotte today? Likewise the photo of them all lying in the sand. I feel those photos should be personal . She’s only 11, on holiday and those moments should be private.

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Very much so. Definitely a Windsor. George looks a Spencer and Louis a Middleton.

She's William's mini-me not Catherine's.

I think the children’s privacy should be protected. They should be treated as private citizens until as adults they chose to be working royals or not. I don’t think there is any justification for the children attending formal /official events (other than weddings or funerals).

The public being interested in what the children look like, or enjoying seeing them is not a good enough reason to do this.

I don’t believe in the “duty” aspect that any of them have to be working royals if they don’t want to be. (Although obviously I do think if you aren’t doing the job you don’t get the money!)

BTW - I feel the same way about other celebrity parents who share photos of the children or use them for publicity.

@FancyBiscuitsLevel do you not agree it would be extremely bizarre for someone to suddenly appear as an adult in a public role ? How about their ability to deal with the general public and being photographed after a hidden childhood?

They do it because it would be completely unacceptable to throw these children in unprepared when they hit adult hood. It would be so so difficult for them to adjust. and very unfair. Sure people marry in. And if anyone knows how best to do it, it will be Kate as she’s endured the intrusion as an adult when she wasn’t used to it, and I can only Imagine how hard it was, and how she wishes to prepare her own kids for their lives ahead.

For me , they have it right, the children learn from the adults around them, by attending these events, to deal with the public and the media. So when they reach adult hood they are well adjusted and can cope.

in reality it’s a few days a year, max. Things like a carol service, Wimbledon etc. the rest of the time they live private lives.

these children are the children and grandchildren of the monarch. George will be king, Charlotte and Louis his siblings. They will in all likely hood be working royals. They will not retire. They will work till they can no longer work. So preparing them for that, is always going to be better than hiding them away.

You think the children should be hidden from view until they are 18! Instead of privacy it sounds somewhat sinister and frankly your understanding is also in question and flawed!
I disagree with everything that you have said and no amount of explanation can make it more palatable or less like victim blaming children .

what a bizarre post - every other public role only happens in adulthood after you’ve chosen it.

it would be perfectly possible for the learning the role and accompanying parents to learn from them to happen as young adults (the university years even if they don’t go to uni). Even if they do continue to do public engagements now as children, if they follow their dad, they won’t start doing regular solo public engagements until mid 20s.

And if any of the children decide they don’t want to be working royals as adults, this time as children would have been a waste of their privacy for no gain.

I guess no one should allow their kids to participate in a theatre show, sing or dance for an audience, participate in competition sports, have a school year group photograph taken that ALL the parents can buy, because they are ‘private citizens’ and their privacy needs too be protected.

The Wales are not the Beckhams !

You are manufacturing an issue where there is absolutely none.

Hidden away from view - you appear to be mistaking “not have pictures shared in public and not taken to parents work events” with locking them away.

Many parents refuse to put photos of their children on social media and in the public domain, are they hiding them away?

We arguably have a right to see the working royals, to expect them to show up to important events and represent the UK. We don’t have the same right over the non-working royals. The children are not working royals and as such should be allowed privacy. If they want to be working royals later, then they need training and accepting public scrutiny. Not as children.

I may have missed your answer and apologies if so FancyBiscuitsLevel but if we never saw carefully chosen photos or snapshots of these children how would you stop weirdos with the desire to cash in from taking photos and publishing them? Surely you can see it's much better for them to release photos and have the current press understanding than risk them being stalked and photographed going about their day to day lives?

Meanwhile, in the real world, we know there is always going to be interest in "first families" - just as there is in the families of US presidents; and so a limited exposure to public life through a couple of controlled events per year, assuaging the media, the "what are we paying for" brigade and the "where's Catherine" type nutters is an eminently sensible approach. It allows the children to get used to being in the public eye for a few hours (and no more) a year, and leaves them with the vast majority of their lives played out in private and free of press/pap/curious onlooker intrusion.

You can’t- although the legacy media would have to accept that if they want access to the working adult royals, they need to respect the privacy of the children and not publish them.

Weirdos will still take photos of the children out and about and share them online now, releasing tasteful photos to the press doesn’t stop that, it just means more people know what they look like and can recognise them to take opportunistic photos.

Society has changed re photos of children - I’m not convinced the sort of media outlets who are sharing the official photos would publish paparazzi taken photos if the royal family said they’d decided to stop sharing images of the children.

Catherine is a working royal. Asking about her work schedule was valid. The children are not and the public being interested in something is not the same as them having a right to know.

I’m not convinced the sort of media outlets who are sharing the official photos would publish paparazzi taken photos if the royal family said they’d decided to stop sharing images of the children.

Of course they would and the secrecy behind the children would encourage them to pay big money to do so.

In contrast having pictures released removes the incentive because we already know what they look like and whilst yes some weirdos still take those pictures now they are rarely published because the cost of being sued is a great deterrent. It wouldn't be the same if there were no photos and the incentive was there to catch a glimpse. The cost of being sued would be vastly outweighed by the profit those rare and elusive pictures would generate.

It's odd you can't see how this current approach is the best of their options.

Asking about her work schedule when she had abdominal surgery and said she wouldn't be back until Easter (before she had to tell the same nutters she had cancer)? And, as you well know, it wasn't confined to Catherine, there was plenty said about the children and where they were, all by the same people on the same threads on MN. Don't try to justify those vile people unless you want to align yourself with them. .

disagree.

Trigger word, trigger word!! 🥣

Good grief. It's not good.

So they can attend a wedding or a funeral?
But not have their photo taken?
Ok 🙄

Perhaps a childhood akin to the children of Michael Jackson?

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Perhaps attending an event like this?

This. How valuable would those pap pictures be if we'd never seen the Wales children?
If they'd never been to a wedding, funeral, the Coronation, the Trooping. Images would be at a premium.
The children can't be secluded like Carmelites.
They have to live a life, and they're being prepped and guided well, by all accounts.

Perhaps, when she was a bridesmaid, Charlotte should have been shrouded head to toe! 😂
That would have made for a lovely wedding album for the happy couple!

Exactly 😂!