Ascot - all the curtsying…

[ChloeCannotCanCan]

For some reason my social media is showing me lots of videos of the royal family in massive hats bobbing up and down to each other at the horses

Isn’t it extremely odd to be curtsying to certain members of your family… and your cousin gets married and all of a sudden you’re curtsying to some random

And where’s all the bowing? If Sophie’s curtsying to C&C shouldn’t Edward be also? He gets the kisses but not the grovelling afterwards.

ODD!

It’s a choice to curtsy or bow - I’ve met Princess Anne. I didn’t curtsy. - I just shook her hand.

Exactly, if these twats want to modernise the monarchy and not be the objects of division and derision, they should keep their stupid archaic customs strictly behind closed doors.

The royal website makes it clear that people may choose whether they wish to bow or curtsey. Perhaps they believe in letting people make their own decisions - unlike people on this thread, who seem to want to dictate how other people, whom they don't know, should behave.

If they stopped doing it among themselves, they’d stop the forelock tuggers from thinking it’s the right thing to do. They are no better than anyone else. They’re far worse than many of us. They should completely stop the stupid bowing and curtseying as an example and an acknowledgement of this fact.

I wouldn’t be able to get up again, so I’d end up embarrassing myself!

They are just reinforcing the 'we are better than you'

Maybe if they stopped doing it in public they might become a bit more relatable

I agree that if they really want to modernize, the RF should stop doing it among themselves. The thing I most dislike is the sexism. The women bob almost to the ground, but the men give the slightest of bows, if that. I didn't see William or Edward bow to Charles, but Catherine and Sophie did the deep dip.

Agree. There’s something about the ugliness of the women doing it - ungainly, unnaturally crossed legs, rictus grin, ‘look at me contorting myself! Approve of me!’

It makes me cringe.

It is completely and utterly bizarre!