Footage of Charlotte

[Aspecialkindofhell]

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.

No. There's less demand for photos because we know what they look like. A pap picture is devalued.
I'm not sure why you can't understand that.

I’m also wondering what it is about Charlotte that triggers this kind of response? 🤔 , pictures of Louis were published for his birthday 🎈, nothing!
but apparently this is now a big deal to some! Wonder why!

Mmmm. Different rules for girls and boys, in some people's opinion? Who knows...🤔

Seems like it! , I’d like to ask op why these particular images of Charlotte are such a concern and why her wearing shorts is so uncomfortable? But apparently it was ok for Louis and George! Unfortunately she’s left !

Well quite, and according to this logic:

Catherine is a working royal. Asking about her work schedule was valid.

Catherine and William are arguably "working royals" when they are out and about with their children. After all, according to the Where's Catherine nutters, it was her royal privilege and the tax payer purse that meant she didn't have to work through cancer, and how very dare she. Hell, apparently it's a luxury care of the tax payer that they can pick up her kids at all. So anything they are doing, school run, hospital visit, kids at a sporting event, would be fair game for them. These types can pretzel themselves into any justification. And the bargain basement media would be happy to support them, because the "deal" that they have made with the RF is a reluctant one based on knowing they can't cross lines when they have been given the photo opportunities they've asked for. Only the fact that they get just the right amount of exposure keeps the media in check.

Actually, this line alone is quite telling. All the normal people accepted that Catherine was recovering from surgery and left her alone. Only the SM weirdos and the media that lapped up and regurgitated their crap made a fuss about where she was. Most of us normal people can glance at a picture of one of the royal children, think, "That's nice," and move on with our day. The only people making a fuss is the same people who want them gone.

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

Zara, Peter, Beatrice, Eugenie, James, Louise just the latest non working royals who we saw as children, I could provide a more extensive list if I could be bothered, honestly give up with the faux concern, it’s not like we have seen the Wales kids in the bath or anything……

Quite.

Clearly H&M were most remiss in not disguising her at the wedding, never mind the socks!

Because Charlotte will more than like be The Princess Royal as an adult and the American cousins will probably be advertising Disney Cruises, sets some people off unfortunately.

Ah. Of course. The green eyed monster.

In fact they have already advertised Disney! at 3 years old!

They are no better parents than the insta-parents using their dcs to advertise Disney cruises.

.... and there are some influencer royals who used their kids to advertise a freebie trip to Disneyland last year.

Glad to see you disagree with it.

Indeed 🙄

Imagine if they were using the children to sell tat online, the horror 😱

Shot their self in the foot?
Hoist by their own petard?
Dug their own grave?

Which one is it?

I favour this one

I would be very, very shocked.

I think you are incorrect - shutting them away would make photos and intrusion more highly prized for their rarity value and lead to a flurry of paps, staff, or hangers on prepared to sell the kids out to make £-millions.

Do we really want to go back to the days where royal children were locked up in Palaces in seclusion? Even Queen Victoria described it as a very lonely childhood. The late Queen did not attend school either and was tutored at the palace (although she was photographed) and palace staff had to form the Buckingham Palace Girl Guide platoon to give her some contact with other children.

It's incredible to think that Charles is the first British Monarch to have attended school! I think mostly due to his father.

I think that William and Catherine are doing the right thing - introducing their children slowly to public life and duties. They are taking a similar approach as the Scandi royals in recognising that there will be interest in their children as a result of the social contract for the role they play. So we are given a very limited glimpse of formal events and some outdoor photos taken on one day a year - and in return the kids are left alone in their private lives - we don't see them inside their home or at school or on private activities. In fact William sued and won against a French publication that used long lenses to get pictures of the kids inside a skiing chalet last year.

If W and C didn’t release occasional photos of their DC , many people would demand to know why we are paying for children who are kept hidden .
Also , can I remind you that W is only 2 years older than Harry yet seems to cope with the attention ?
Having said that , H seems to have got over the triggering flashbulbs !

Oh yes! Funny that about the camera flashes suddenly being ok. When money is at stake.

This is a fantasy - William and Harry did a lot of formal "suit wearing" events as children and Diana also invited photographers into her home to photograph them in their nursery and living room.

Both Charles and Diana were somewhat "Disney parents" - Charles did the aristocratic stuff of horses, polo and skiing whereas Diana was the "fun parent" with Disney Land, pop concerts and parading them in front of the paps in the Med. Both chose to send William and Harry to boarding school full time and often left them with the nanny in the holidays.

Unsavoury people may look - but you don’t know about it - you can’t control it -

I’m glad she was in shorts - why should she have less bodily freedom as a girl??? they are just legs - feel feee lovely Charlotte always

She was never a spare as she wasn’t in the line of succession

and she didn’t give her kids titles so that they could lead more normal lives - best move she could make

She was in the line of succession.
She still is.

When Princess Anne was born she was 3rd in line to the throne. Then in 1952, second in line. She then dropped down behind Andrew, Edward and their children (and grandchildren.
She is now 18th in the line of succession.