PR disasters thread 25

[BigWillyLittleTodger]

The Montecito diaries continue……..will it be Balmoral or bust?

So what? Plenty of people go to the beach and don’t go in the water for various reasons. Maybe its fear, not a strong swimmer, too cold, just didn't feel like it etc.

Why do you need to know if she can swim? What does it even matter to you if she can or can't? Why is this even something to criticise and comment on? Do you think about this when you go to the beach and see other people not going in?

It's "you're".
You know full well about their pronouncements about children and social media. You can't try to use some word usage to absolve them!
They've spoken out against it, but do it.
That is all.

Why do you care is a weak argument. Why do you care that others care or not? 😂

@LipglossAndLies - they are both hypocrites.

“It is a universal truth that our children are in harm’s way by what’s happening online,” Meghan said at the event. “No matter how polarised the world is or what people may or may not agree on, one thing that we can all agree on is that our children should be safe.”

"The easiest thing to say is to keep your kids away from social media,” Harry told HuffPost at the event.

“Life is better off of social media,” Harry continued. “I say that as a parent, and I say that as someone who’s spoken to many of the kids here tonight who are not on social media because they’ve lost a brother or a sister to social media.

“Parents can do whatever they want. But from what I’ve seen, what I’ve heard, what I’ve experienced, is you should be really really worried, concerned and cautious about putting photographs of your kids online."

Harry, on Hasan Minhaj’s podcast in October last year.

You might want to apologise to the poster you accused of lying?

They don’t use their own children’s faces, but are happy to use other children’s faces to promote Brand Sussex.

Perhaps the lavender is a ‘sweet nod’ to dear Uncle Elton, she didn’t want to be too obvious and post some ‘Nice’ biscuits

Meghan had to stay on the beach to mind their valuables. Archie must have taken his Lecia camera to snap them all, but wouldn’t want it unattended on the beach 😆

Exactly. Why do we need to see the kids of non working royals? Why not keep their childhood protected from this? They don’t have to do it.

But is it Harry? Has she photoshopped him? I can’t imagine him being toned and muscular at all!

It shows it can be done - I don't think the names of Keir Starmer's children were ever publicly revealed either.

Have we ever seen photos of the Clooney children?

Just total hypocrites.

If I were concerned enough about social media never to show their faces I honestly wouldn’t be posting pictures of my daughter in a swimsuit whether or not her face could be seen

Excellent point

We seem to be playing semantics here,

There is such a disconnect between warning parents of the dangers of social media. yet using your own children to flog jam.

Indeed! Tamato , tomato !

Is that Archie on the side of the pool with his face on view? He always seems to be on the sidelines poor lad.

Agree. And if she fails to flip she could hit her head in the shallow water.

KS also, quite reasonably, wanted to stay in the family home because it was nearer to his DCs’ school but was told no because it would be an extra expense to secure his home. He didn’t go WAAH I want a review so I get a bespoke arrangement.

Interesting, I didn't know that. No, I don't expect he moaned about security and not getting exactly what he wanted.

Maybe she wears contact lenses.

If the swimming pool photo is real, (and i dont believe he could throw her like that) wouldn't L hit the bottom of the pool. It looks pretty shallow judging by where the water comes up to on H.

I think there are two points about SM here re children.

1. What have they access to - what inappropriate things can they access themselves on SM - what can be done about this ?
2. Photographs of children on SM which will be out there forever, are maybe subject to AI manipulation, and have been put on widespread global SM when they are too young to understand and give their agreement.

I think we know H is very much against no.1 & I agree. But as @Serenster quoted from H above “Parents can do whatever they want. But from what I’ve seen, what I’ve heard, what I’ve experienced, is you should be really really worried, concerned and cautious about putting photographs of your kids online."

To my mind just hiding their faces doesn't cut it. Those children , by a sort of instagram drip feed , photos and eg comments re the children's personalities whilst selling candles etc etc are having a part of their lives being broadcast far and wide whilst they are very young , when it is not necessary. (IMHO) I don't think this is cautious, even if you ignore "worried" and "concerned" But as Harry says - parents can do what they want. I'd be willing to bet the majority of parents who are posting photos of children are on private instagram , FB which are limited to friends and family. Influencers etc maybe not. People who genuinely want their children at a young age being completely private - not at all. That's why I call hypocrite.

Whether M wants to keep her hair out of the pool , I don't care two hoots. I was known in earlier years on family holidays for "mummy swimming" - breaststroke with sunglasses & tying hair up to keep out of the water - perfectly valid choice. 😂

I don't need a reason. It's a chat board and I'm chatting and speculating about something that interests me. Feel free to report my posts if you think any break talk guidelines. Otherwise, don't imagine I will bother again to justify what I take an interest in, because I don't need to.

One reason that Harry was criticised for hypocrisy when he gave that advice was that he did so in the week that Meghan released photographs and videos of the children for Hallowe'en (which included facial views).

I hope RAVEC tells him this when he badgers them again, and asks why his need is greater than a series of former prime ministers. I dislike some of them strongly but nevertheless they have served in that role and deserve ongoing protection for the decisions they had to take.