A few weekends back, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge posted a cute video of their kids asking Sir David Attenborough questions about animals and insects. We learned that Charlotte is a big fan of spiders and Louis has some Big Chaotic energy. It was a sweet video and I think even Cambridge critics softened briefly. I mean, I thought the video was adorable AND I thought it was a really odd piece of promotion for Attenborough’s latest Netflix documentary, and I could hold those two feelings at once. It’s been so common over the past few years, to see more of the Cambridge kids. Part of me thinks that always would have happened – Will and Kate obviously would feel the pressure to show more of their children as the kids got older. But part of me also understands that Will & Kate constantly use their kids to deflect from negative stories, or to “compete” with the Sussexes, and on and on. Well… here’s one sugary take on why W&K seem extra-keen to show off their kids.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are ’empowering’ their children to prepare them to ‘play an active part’ in royal life, a royal expert claims. Last month the Cambridges had a special back-garden viewing of David Attenborough’s new documentary A Life on Our Planet, what seemed like a special treat for their children who love Sir David’s nature programmes. Now, however, royal commentator Victoria Arbiter claims that the screening was a carefully orchestrated public appearance to help train the next generation of royals.
Writing on 9Honey, Arbiter said that the published video of Prince George, Louis and Princess Charlotte after the documentary ‘ticked multiple boxes’ because on top of highlighting a major issue, the children were gently encouraged to play a key role.
She said: ‘Destined as they are for a lifetime of royal service, it’s imperative they learn early on what their future roles will require.’
Arbiter added that although speaking into a camera might seem quite easy, its an effective way to build confidence among the royal children, and allowing them to master the art of public speaking early on can only be a benefit. Additionally, the royal commentator pointed out that the video of the young royals gave the rest of a nation a glimpse at the inner workings of the royal family – something that endears the younger members to the public.
She wrote that William’s own personal experience of growing up as a royal will be shaping his approach to raising his own children.
‘He and Kate have made a concerted effort to protect their brood from the harshest elements of royal life – namely cameras – but they’ve also strived to instil a healthy understanding of the media’s role,’ she said.
Arbiter writes that the same level of control has also been displayed when the children appear in public, such as Prince George and princess Charlotte’s first Christmas Day Walk last year.
Despite claiming that the appearance was a PR stunt, Arbiter also said it would be a disservice to suggest that the move was PR-based alone.
I mean, it can be all of that and then some. Most royal houses in Europe do this too – they bring out the photogenic royal children for photos or videos a few times a year, partly to help prepare those kids for their royal lives. Starting them young, getting them comfortable in front of cameras, easing them into public life. It was always going to happen with the Cambridge kids too. It’s not notable that they’re doing this, what was notable is that they were always crying “privacy” for years before… you know, Meghan came around. Will & Kate actually had a lot of public angst about not putting their kids out there whatsoever. Now that’s changed. Sure, maybe it’s because the kids are older. But… it’s about a lot of other stuff too.
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— The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (@KensingtonRoyal) October 3, 2020
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I do wonder if there will still be a monarchy by the PG is of age though. I hope not.
Most brits are waiting for HM the Queen to go and many don’t think it will last long after that. The current crop of royals (except for the ones who got away) simply don’t appeal to the millennials or GenZs or inspire them in any way.
I think the monarchy will endure and be there for Will and George, but I hope the public demands a less bloated propped up version. It costs the taxpayers too much, doesn’t need a string of relatives to represent one head of state. The British government has a lot of paid diplomats and professional civil servants, why do they need all those royal siblings and cousins as well on the payroll? Much of the charity they can do as private citizens or get real government jobs. Apart from the immediate monarch and spouse, the rest need to go their separate ways and earn their own living in the private sector.
Sure Jan.
Agreed. Inherently unfair system.
Are Charlotte and Louis going to have royal roles? I can’t see the public supporting that in 20 years time, if the monarchy is even still around by then.
William and Kate could have set a great precedent for their own children if they’d supported Harry finding his own path outside the Firm instead of taking him for granted as Willy’s scapegoat and it’s going to come back and bite them.
The kids are better off learning a trade than growing up a walking anachronism.
100 per cent this.
Seriously, just send these kids to computer camp.
Hah, except they won’t, because even if they’re not royalty, they’d still be aristocrats, and aristocrats don’t work a trade.
They should go into academia (if that way inclined/skilled), or study to become a doctor, or an historian, or an art curator. Something posh and respectable but still actually contributing to society!
They should put more emphasis on education and finding a role outside the royal family for the younger two. This push about how they are being prepared for a royal life seems like a clear pushback against Harry – “he may have walked away, but our children will be properly prepared and know their roles.” Or even just to the public – “hahahaha if you thought Harry was setting any kind of precedent you’re wrong, you all are supporting these kids for the next 80 years!”
also, lmao at that last line about how the Christmas walk wasn’t based on PR alone. The entire Christmas walk is nothing but PR. Of course it was a PR stunt. That doesn’t mean it was some evil thing, the royals are mostly just about PR, but it was absolutely a PR stunt Victoria Arbiter.
I agree, don’t insult our intelligence with calling it anything but PR. Do the Cambridges go to church often? Even PC, does he? He and Wills and George will be the future heads of the Church of England (Lord I cringe at the antiquity of it) should they not prepare for that as well?
“seems like a clear pushback against Harry – “he may have walked away, but our children will be properly prepared and know their roles.” ”
This is EXACTLY what I think all this is about.
Yes and they will be psychologically damaged as a result. Exposing these children more than brief holidays outings is going to cause more damage than they realize in this world of social media.
William isn’t that camera-friendly. Did you see the perma-sneer expression he maintained during his recent video/Ted talk about the environment? That’s a problem. He needed those cute little kids’ faces to get publicity/clicks for his I’m the FFKing of the Environment roll-out and he used them, pure and simple. That’s okay, if that’s what they decide. But does this mean Wills is softening on some of the resentments he felt toward his own parents? Is he starting to understand some of the choices they made with the press? Is there growth going on? That’s what I want to know.
I thought his Ted talk was odd. He goes on about his ancestry and tracing it back like everybody on earth doesn’t have ancestors? It comes across to me like bragging about being in the royal line and about their estates when he goes on about buildings. And he was inspired by JFK in ’61 and says “we” accomplished goals back then. He wasn’t even alive. I wondered who wrote it for him and whose inspiration the name “earthshot” really was.
He needs to stop talking about his ancestors because they helped destroy the environment in several continents. Oh and started a genocide as well.
Indoctrinate the kids early so they don’t get any ideas of having an independent life like their Uncle Harry.
I predict one of the kids escaping to go stay with Uncle Harry as a teen.
If they can, they will. I mean, Uncle Harry lives in freaking California. He’s not that far from LA! He’s going to know so many of the power players in Hollywood. What teenager would rather spend their holiday at Balmoral as opposed to Uncle Harry’s mansion in Montecito? William and Kate may not allow it, but for sure the kids are going to want to escape to there.
I predict Charlotte. I see a lot of Harry in her.
I wonder what Will and Kate are telling the kids about Uncle Harry and Aunt Meghan. Are they trashing them? Are they telling them daily they should never betray the crown like their selfish Uncle Harry? Do they know they are in California?
@Snuffles – George and Charlotte appeared to have zero interaction with Meghan, let alone baby Archie, at that polo match (just like Kate), so you do have to wonder what they hear, at least about Meghan.
Harry and Will were introduced to public life quite early and he still wanted to leave. I don’t think it matters at what age the children begin doing public events, it all depends on how the RF raises them. Someone commented the other day that the queen, Charles, and will only have the perspective of a future monarch so they just don’t understand the difficulties of being a spare and how disposable you are to the public and the family. The heirs just don’t have the capacity to look beyond the crown and see the effects on the other children. Charlotte and Louis will have a rough go of it, especially in these times with social media, because W&K have no interest in breaking the cycle. They are already setting up the younger kids for a life time of service, despite plans for a slimmed down monarchy already in place. They are essentially undoing everything that Charles has worked for before his reign begins and the spare will suffer because that’s what happens in the house of Windsor.
Also, its worth pointing out that Harry didn’t leave because he didn’t want to serve the public or carry out his royal duties. He left because of an abusive press that he was powerless to stop and a very unequal power dynamic in the family, to put it mildly, that he was no longer willing to tolerate.
The press is the press and I don’t think Charlotte and Louis are going to get any kind of break from them, especially not once they reach the age of 18 or mayyyybe post college, but the unequal power dynamic will never be fixed, not with William and Kate for all the reasons you said.
Harry didn’t leave because he wasn’t “prepared” for public life. He left because he wasn’t prepared for his wife and son to be treated like he was.
I think the press will go after Charlotte sooner than the boys, especially if she is seen at clubs or anything like that. Beatrice and Eugenie were made fun of by the tabloid media in a way Harry and William never were due to the strain of misogyny that runs through the tabloids and it’s going to target Charlotte in the same way.
The queen’s shortsightedness has always puzzled me, because she is the daughter of a spare, and she was old enough to understand what was happening to him (and to her) at the time of her uncle’s abdication. She should grasp better than anyone that treating the spare as an afterthought is a mistake. Her own father was dismissed as a boring, unimportant family man right up until the moment he wasn’t.
@Nic919 I think Kate will push the Diana comparisons on Charlotte, making her more of a target for paparazzi.
Tolly
You said it. You’re unimportant until you are.
The Queen was given power and she ran with it. Sure, some can have power and lead with empathy. Taking with them the personal experiences and struggles. Or they can just grab on and become corrupted. No moral compass will ever be provided by the courtiers. They have their own survival to worry about.
I don’t understand any of them at this point. How can you force something on your children that you hated growing up? I remember a video back in the day when Harry and William were still kids/teenagers and they were on skiing holiday with Charles, photographers were taking pictures and Charles said to his sons how much he hates this… How can you continue with this? How can you bring you children up, knowing very well that they will turn on each other at some point? How come the BRF never learns anything from THEIR mistakes? How come they simply can not adapt in the slightest?
I suppose though the Wales boys used to face a press pack, and actual papparazi, which would be horrible.
Kate mostly takes the pictures of the Cambridge kids so it wouldnt feel weird. Any instance where it isnt Kate seems to be done quite low key, like one TV camera.
It’s much more humane and controlled than in the 80s and 90s when William and Harry were kids.
The Cambridges are “doing more” with the children to garner good PR for themselves, distract from the Rageful Prince’s extra curricular activities, and to present themselves as the generous alternative to the “selfish, privacy obsessed” other couple who “slap the British public in the face” by “hiding” their child. The Cambridges were staunch supporters of privacy and normalcy for their children until the Ginger Duke and his Glowing Duchess started getting battered in the papers for doing the same for their son, at which point the Cambridges realised they could score points in the look-how-much-better-we-are stakes by suddenly sharing more of their children than ever before. Their first family day out to a football match (where fans online praised the Rageful Prince for keeping his bloodline white), their first strategic Christmas Day walk (in the wake of H and M being trashed for being absent), the future heir photo shoot, the many pictures released. It’s no different to their budget airline stunt. They look at what the dynamic couple are being crucified in the press for, then start doing the opposite to draw a favourable comparison. Now that they are across the pond, the future-futures are still using the children to attract the attention they can’t muster up themselves. Hopefully George, Charlotte and Louis are prepared to kiss goodbye to the quiet, normal childhood once promised to them. Unless William can tear himself away from his long country walks long enough to get some charisma and Keen Kate can take five minutes out of her busy king-making schedule to develop a work ethic, those kids will continue to be playing cards to win the media game.
I think so too. Otherwise why would Charlotte and especially Louis be seen as much as George? Are the younger children going to have to do things on the “important” George’s timeline instead of being allowed to at least have their earlier years be private?
We’ve seen that training in action, haven’t we? George is elevated, the other two are made to heel.
The other royals may release photos from a family photo shoot, or have their children stand with them at a public appearance, but I can’t think of another example of very young royal children promoting their parents’ projects. This seems to be less about preparing them for future service and more about Wills’ ego (Louis in particular is much too young for major life lessons). The Cambridges could practice camera exposure without releasing images/footage, but that’s obviously not the point here.
Exactly this. They weren’t doing this when George or Charlotte were Louis’s age. But now things have changed with Harry’s departure. Now they need the PR distraction that cute kids almost universally bring. We see you, Cambridges.
William and Kate have no choice but to put the children on display, they lost the Sussexes.
I think they are overdoing it. The children as they grow older will not like being trotted out. Stage parents push kids into show business for auditions and so forth and some children really rebel against this as they get older. I don’t like how William talks about what his children say to him, some things should be private and children don’t like their private conversations spread to the media.
It was a PR stunt and it was rightfully called out as such. Doesn’t mean both things can’t be true. I guess Victoria Arbiter was sent out to do damage control.
That’s laughable. They barely got a handle on public life themselves. Go out for an hour and retreat back home for the rest of the week.
I think prep time for royals should star around the teen years and go full on when they are old enough to ascend (18 I believe in the UK). They should also learn life skills and a trade in case one, especially the heir, wants to step out on his or her own so there is a smooth transition for the next in line. William was never prepared for kingship early on; he didn’t “start” until his thirties. I think the queen and Charles laid into the Cambridges and told them your kids are going have to be out there more because you ran off the Sussexes. The Firm has to show the royalists the monarchy will continue despite Sussexit and the media will have fresh material with YOUR kids. That means if George Charlotte or Louis stumble out of a club the tabloids will need their weekly sacrifice. William and Kate and the kids will forever have to be the perfect British family to get and keep the Crown and lawsuits will not keep the press at bay forever.
I don’t believe that William and Kate suddenly care about working they care about their public image for years these two hidden behind William cosplaying a middle class guy wanting to be a helicopters pilot and Kate hidden out with her parents. While the royal reporters claimed that the queen allowed them to hide out for royal duties to protect them and give them time as newlyweds. Now their suddenly need to seem like they care about royal work and wanted their kids to learn is Bs they both know that their kids bring them good press and some of their fans will over looked their lazy way if new pictures or information is given out about their kids . What can William or Kate really teach those kids about working how to throw your siblings under the bus how to be mediocre in life how to get a nation to hate your sister in law and brother so much they leave the country.
I think there is an apt comparison to Hollywood child stars. How many of them have gone onto live a normal life and how many have gone off the rails. How many former child stars want the same for their own kids?
Imaging growing up knowing everyone you meet worldwide adores you then find out the fix is in that only one of you will grow up to be the star and sorry but it’s over for you so go stand in the back of the room. Margaret and Andrew both struggled their whole lives.
Yes they Cambridge kids are adorable. So were William and Harry, or so we were told but apparently William was always a little brat. They seem cute and I hope they really do grow up to have fulfilling lives. They have Uncle Harry as a great example when they are mature enough to see through family propaganda. Or maybe they will take a cue from William and use it as a threat ‘I get my way or I will leave just like Harry’.
I’m so glad that Meghan, Harry and Archie got away. Archie won’t be dragged up to fulfill some antique public service narrative; he’ll be brought up to be passionate, honest and kind, just like his parents.
All I got is a ‘good luck’ to Charlotte and Louis. George’s life is defined and will be protected above all, including the 2 of them. I hope they find a purpose and some peace.
All I can say is, thank god Harry took his family away from all this mess. He knew exactly how history was going to repeat itself and ran before his family became trapped within it. Now the Cambridge kids will suffer the same fate, but their parents will shamefully stand by and do nothing to protect them. They’re already giving George the special heir treatment and he’s decades away from the throne (if the monarchy is still even around). What is the point of all this? Who is it benefitting? Why can’t Cain & Unable stick to their promises of privacy for their children?
So many questions that will be left unanswered for eternity. I’ll pray for the children still stuck in that horrid institution, but i’m so glad Archie was taken away before it was too late.
My guess is the Cambridge’s are purposely doing the opposite of Harry and Meghan, so they push the little kids out there instead of guarding them like Archie.
The problem W&K have is they don’t connect with the public. With or without the kids. Every thing they do is staged and it appears staged. None of the photos they take with their kids appear organic. Like the kids were out playing and Kate ran and grabbed her camera to catch that moment. The kids are clean and color coordinated with their super stiff parents in their family photos. It’s so odd.
On the other hand. Casually dressed Meghan, energetic Archie in a onesie, and Harry behind the camera attempting to “direct” Archie in a read along seemed more “real”. Moms everywhere could relate because we’ve been there. We’ve all attempted to get our babies to pay attention to us when they had other ideas. And even though this appearance was PR for a charity and to give their fans/supporters a glimpse of Archie, H&M&A came across as an actual family.
“Empowering “ their children…look who’s “woke” now. Geez these two are really something! Kick out the Sussex’s and then copy everything they do. Massive eye roll!
Keen can barely string a sentence together and looks uncomfortable when being around poor people and POC. Won’t always looks like he would rather be somewhere else and had the personality of a rock, but sure let’s believe that there getting there kids ready for royal life.
Of course they are. Can’t have them having silly little ideas like moving out after being sick of being a scapegoat for your brother only because he was born first. But I also think they want the kids to think that the working royal life is the only life they have and the only one they can have. But if they really want to leave, they will, just like Harry.
“although speaking into a camera might seem quite easy, its an effective way to build confidence among the royal children, and allowing them to master the art of public speaking early on can only be a benefit.” Touche. Meghan spent time in front of a camera and is comfortable with public speaking. I never heard them laud that part of her experience and ability.
I also saw this as a snipe against Kate, who has no confidence and is uncomfortable in front of a camera, so best to train the children up from young.
More like train them to be scapegoats
Victoria and Daniel of Sweden seem to be managing the introduction of Estelle and Oscar to public scrutiny in a balanced way – I think there is even a day when they get to play with other “regular” children. The children go on some royal engagements with their parents and not just trotted out for PR stunts and the official photo ops. The Spanish royals have the two young princesses at engagements too.
The futures those kids have are not ones I would wish on anyone, especially in the social media age. They won’t be able to hide. Think of what the tabloids will do to Charlotte when the puberty monster hits. I also fear they will flouder the way the York princesses have floudered. Charlotte and Louis will be brought up to live a life that likely will no longer exist. Their teenaged idiotic moments will be splashed all over the world, as Charlotte and Louis take the fall for George. On top of that, they have to act out the “happy family” fantasy in public, which I think is difficult for any family (and all families have degrees of dysfunction). They are growing up in an environment where appearances matter more than reality. That’s not good for any kid. The media beast will be eager to chew them up, as it will have been a long time by then since there were young people in the RF. Poor kids.
They may want to take a look at what is going on with the Conways and how social media from the kids is exposing their life. Billy and Cathy may not be able to hide all the things they want to.
There are rumors that when Kate was pregnant with George that they both consulted with child psychiatrists about how to be royal and raise a child in a healthy environment. I think that’s as close to therapy as William has gotten but I do believe for all of his many, many, many, faults his primary concern is that his children are raised in a healthier environment than he was.
As much as I dislike William and Kate, and for all we can say about their shady media practices and ways of life, I do think the kids are far more stable and prepped for being royal than William and Harry were. I mean even if shady Carole Middleton is taking the kids for a walk when their parents are fighting, that is miles away the parentification William felt as a kid. Regardless of whatever problems do go on in the Cambridge marriage, I really believe the kids are left out of it and insulated. I also think that slowly introducing them to royal duties this way is healthy. We see a lot of this in Demark with Christian.
I think Kate just hangs out at Kensington with the kids and the nanny staff and William hides out at Anmer most of the time and only shows up when they need to play happy family for the media. Another difference is that the kids have a stable nanny in Maria. William and Harry went through 3 or 4 nannies if I recall. I actually think no matter what happens George, Charlotte, and Louis have a better royal public start than either William or Harry did.
They already treat George differently from the other two which is poor parenting and will cause problems eventually. If they did see a psychologist they would have told them not to do that to children. So already they aren’t headed in a healthy path.
Also any child with parents who don’t get along will tell you that they know what’s going on. No parent can hide a dysfunctional marriage from the kids, especially not with media attention.
Nic, I feel like I’m siding with the Cambridges and that feels shameful. As human beings I do believe they are scumbags but I actually think they are really trying as parents within the system. It will be 20 years before we see the results but I do think they are trying to do right and avoid mistakes.
I actually think that treating George somewhat differently from his siblings is somewhat healthy provided he isn’t spoilt or allowed to exploit Charlotte and Louis. Let’s face it, George will be king and he doesn’t have much choice in the matter. This is his reality and destiny at this time, though I doubt he’ll ever see the throne but they need to act like he will until said otherwise. So yes, of course he is treated differently from his siblings. Charlotte and Louis will have more choice in their destiny. George does not have the luxury of leaving the royal family unless he wants to end it which he might.
William is a scumbag but it would be vital to make sure the future heir and siblings are raised in a healthy, united environment and none of the damage and conflict from previous generations is prevalent. It will be important for these siblings to always present a united front. This is aside from William creating the family he was denied, even if he has to hold Kate hostage.
I genuinely believe that if any good comes from William and Kate, it’s that I really believe they’re avoiding the same catastrophic mistakes in child-rearing for the monarchy that plagued them for two generation and off and on for 300 years. The future of the UK royal family depends on a cohesive family unit but I think the damage has been done and there are two future generations that are questionable at best.
Pushing the children out a lot is not good child rearing. they are little but as they get bigger they may refuse to be put out in the media. I think there is such a thing as too much. Like stage parents pushing the children out for auditions. Also it’s a mistake for William to blab what George told him confidentially. George meant that to be private when he told the show about extinction bothered him. William immediate rushes to use this to PR. Some children don’t appreciate having things they say blabbed to the press. Also giving only the heir a present was really bad parenting and they should have suggested that the other children besides George get gifts even a picture book or a toy dinosaur.
They’re not perfect parents, Tessa. I believe they’re doing better than the last 2 generations as far as parenting is concerned. I firmly believe even the worst of people do something right. They are doing their best in the circumstances and positions they find themselves to raise children who can handle being royal. They know the children need to be far more well adjusted than Harry, William, or Charles ever were if the royal family can survive. I do think it’s better to push a little on their terms rather than have tabloids stalking them or rooting through the trash. I do think there is a shift this year that is a little concerning and the kids are being pushed more but I would want to know the reasoning before I pass judgement. So if William is in fact using them as leverage that is shameful. Even still, I think the Cambridge kids are far more protected and in a healthier environment and parenting is far more smoother. And because there are children involved I get weird about gossip when it comes to children so maybe these articles aren’t the best ones for me to comment on.
In a perfect world, royal children would be given complete privacy until they are 25 but that is not the world we live. But the Cambridge children do have a level of consistency that was denied Harry and William due to the mess both Charles and Diana created for them to overcome and inadvertantly the mess the Queen put her two eldest in when she was crowned queen. More time and care is being put in to the Cambridge children’s child rearing.
Also criticizing their parenting…bothers me too. Maybe because I’m a parent myself. If I were in their shoes, I doubt my ability to rise to the occasion of raising my daughter within the fishbowl and expect her to come out healthy. WIth the relentless media like that I want to have some understanding of the decision making there before I judge them harshly. I know we aren’t hearing the horror stories or rumors that we heard about William. George, Charlotte, and Louis are better behaved in public than William and even Harry was at that age. Something is going right in their child rearing – at least for the royals. Whether it is nanny Maria, consistency, or whatever, Kate and William made choices that given what we have seen so far of Cambridge children suggest they’ll be better off.
I think people always assume that children are blissfully ignorant to their parents ways, but they are not. Children are always watching and listening even when you don’t think they are. The problem with the Cambridge’s kids is they have no one who is level headed guiding them in their lives. Their granny Ma midds tried to sell her daughters souls to rich aristos, their mother destroys any woman she feels Jealous of and chased a guy who cheated on her for a decade just to get a title. The father is always incandescent with rage, is practically shacked up with another woman, cheats constantly and tried to destroy his brothers family because he felt jealous. Not to mention all the dodgy great uncles they have. Even auntie Pippa has dodgy in-laws.
These kids are surrounded by the worst people, and the one thing about aristos is that they will always follow their parents because that is tradition. How many generations of williams family have been cheaters, all of them. Remember when we all had so much hope in William, that he was going to be so different to his parents, he’s turned out even worse.
I really hope nanny Marie is a positive influence on them, she maybe their best chance.
The kids look very sweet and happy now, but eventually things will change. William and Kate throwing them more in front of the camera only clarifies that they have no intention of shielding them from this life or actually doing anything different to protect them.
I think I’m realizing that me saying what I’m trying to say isn’t working because I think there is a cultural divide about child-rearing.
In Europe, there’s a major difference between babysitters and nannies. I think those words are a little more synonymous in America and other places.
Nannies are the de-facto parents in these households. Now can an agenda be set by the parents? Of course but the nanny is the one who takes on the day to day child rearing and spends the most time with the children so it’s silly to think Nanny Maria won’t leave something of herself behind in those kids. The nanny is the ones the children are bonded to, rely on for care, and seek out for comfort. The parents are more “the boss” and the business associate. Think of it like a corporation in family form. In royal houses, the choice of nanny is vital and she needs to fit in with the family and help instill family core values. Nannies need to be prepared to make a 15 year commitment to their charges even if that means raising their own children alongside the children they care for.
What stood out to me was this: “Destined as they are for a lifetime of royal service” and
“they’ve also strived to instil a healthy understanding of the media’s role,”. Poor kids. All of those kids will be forever trapped in the same cycle, regardless of their personal wants, needs or intellectual leanings, or whether the monarchy needs to be so bloated with so many people. They’ll all be sucking the taxpayers teats for life. There is nothing healthy about the British media and eventually those kids will be fed to the beast. They’re getting little nibbles now but in 10/15 years, will not be great. I think,they’ll practically arrange those kids marriages and they’ll especially keep them far away from Americans or anyone outside the typical white aristocratic Tory box. The royals never do anything differently, never learn from the past or present because that would mean admitting mistakes, which they won’t acknowledge and they think they’re always right. They’ll just hold tighter and repress more, regardless of the damage to the actual individual.
I like the Cambridge kids. Always have, always will. I’m rooting for them to come through this institution and whatever upheavals that may result from it with their sense of selves firmly intact.
As far as Will and Kate are concerned, to me, this strikes me as a ploy to barter with the press. They know their kids net them good press. This is a way to signal to everyone to expect more of that, as well as provide an excuse for why we’re seeing more of them kiddos in the papers as things move forward.
So two of the laziest Royals in history are “training them for public life”? Get used to bankrolling more generations of useless layabouts! Seriously, it’s not even about whether there is or isn’t a monarchy: as we’ve seen, the heir spends most of his life as the “heir” and not the “monarch.” In addition, the “spare” needs a purpose (trade, profession, etc.). Charles understood this and started the Prince’s Trust, Duchy Originals and become an expert in environmental issues after serving in the military and obtaining a university degree. He is also a full-time Royal with a full-time schedule. Even if TQ “retires” next year, W&K will be turning 40 and what have they accomplished? Heirs of other Royal families have served in the military AND have degrees (undergraduate AND Master’s) AND have diplomatic training AND speak at least 1-2 other languages. Again, what has William accomplished? If Charles has inherited his parents’ longevity, he should reign for at least 20 years. William will be in his 60s and George will be in his 20s/30s by then. With the lack of intellectual curiosity and workshyness both W&K have championed for the past decade, what can we expect from their children?
Omg thys reads like a spoof!! Are they seriously bragging about selling out their own kids for good publicity?? And then that line “they’ve also strived to instil a healthy understanding of the media’s role,’ is practically saying that they are teaching them to bargain with their enemy! Very strange
I remember how they released warnings for media to stop stalking the nanny after Charlotte was born and that warning about drones near anmar and eventually taking drastic measures like making their airspace restricted which even balmoral or berkhall doesnt have and now this. They made a complete u turn since the sussexs came into the scene
Good for the children maybe?
Since no one had train their parents how to work and be responsible as a royal.
They need a better guidance though, maybe they can be trainers at their uncle and aunty sussex foundation.
William himself knows how awful the press are, that’s why he keeps chucking his own family members under the bus to save himself. He is only about self promotion and Kate and the kids are just accessories to make him look good. The fact he hates the press growing up and being used by his parents for PR only makes my more mad that he’s doing the same thing.
Ultimately they are no different than any other celebrity who use their own kids for publicity. They are just trying to spin it as a good thing.