Inappropriate photo op for William and catherine

[OneLilacHedgehog]

This was at an event this week. But the photo just made me gasp. It looks like the elderly woman is being used as a prop, rather than being treated in a dignified way.

Lucky guess 😁.

This post demonstrates one of the blind spots that always bemuses me in these discussions - all these posters thinking it’s perfectly okay for them to be deciding what other countries should and shouldn’t do on the basis that the posters know better than the leaders or local communities from foreign states about what is appropriate for that country to do in relation to a visiting dignitary.

As in these posts, a key objection is that the events (being carried in elevated chairs, being driven in a historic landrover) are tone deaf, because, colonialism. The posters never seem to realise that it’s they themselves who are assuming cultural superiority in declaring they know better than these independent nations about what they should want, and how their cultures should be viewed. Who are the ones demonstrating colonialist attitudes here, then?

Yes, absolutely. It's very colonialist to insist that another culture changes to suit your sensibilities.

I expect Jenny is still chatting today about her lovely meeting with W&C, am sure she’d give the OP short thrift for her opening post!

Don’t be silly. Someone’s mischievously picked the worst shot from the session, which also produced pictures which that lady will display proudly!

So they dressed a body double in her coat to get a better photo? Batshit 🙄

Megs, Meghan.. is that you stirring the pot again...??

Oh dear.. reading your posts on this thread, you do sound a bit obsessed. And I still think you are Meghan (or one of her sycophants lololol)

Funniest thing I've seen all day, thanks and best wishes !!

I want a RF that's bland and not full of drama llamas. So long as they're pleasant enough to the people they meet and just get on with the job that's enough for me.

QE 2 was objectively bland in public (although people who knew her said she definitely wasn't in private) yet people respected her. I actually think that KC comes over as a warmer friendlier person than his mother but more people seem to dislike him.🤷‍♂️

With the thousands of photos that are taken of them I'm surprised there aren't more slightly odd ones posted! Just an odd angle, nothing more & nothing to read into

The RF are supposed to focus on the role, not the individual. That’s where M got I so wrong. It’s not meant to be a popularity contest.

Grow up.

I think this is AI.

Lololol. You didn't notice them getting fired on camera by Jamaica and the many protests by local people?

You argue that people are 'assuming cultural superiority in declaring they know better.' Yet, that is precisely what happens on Mumsnet every single day when it comes to Harry and Meghan. Posters routinely decide what is 'appropriate' for them to do, say, or wear, completely convinced that they know better than the people actually living those lives. The irony of calling out 'tone deaf' behavior while ignoring the forum's non-stop dictation of other people's lives is striking.

Of course you don't go tell those posters that do you.

This is worth quoting I think!

Lololol?

Fascinating term used by so very few.

What does it mean?

'Laughing out loud out loud out loud.'

Ah. Echo chamber.

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Yet, that is precisely what happens on Mumsnet every single day when it comes to Harry and Meghan. Posters routinely decide what is 'appropriate' for them to do...

People who live in the UK are entitled to have an opinion about what they say publicly about the UK and about how they behave towards our head of state and other institutions.

They think they are public figures, well then their public words and actions are open to criticism.

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That photo just made me gasp. How inappropriate!

Oh do excuse my typos!! , my phone is batty!