Will nobody think of the children...

Some controversy has been stirred by the booing of Kate and her offspring in the Royal Coach during Trooping the Colour.  Is it bullying children?  Possibly but then why are the children wheeled out as props?  I've always found it annoying seeing them at public events.  It's kind of rubbing in how awful the hereditary principle is.  These are the people your taxes will be funding in the future and you have no choice.  The hereditary principle has now been abandoned everywhere else including the House of Lords finally which leaves the Royal Family out on a limb.  Once they were the pinnacle of the aristocracy.  Now they are sitting on a branch waiting to be sawn off.  

Back in the old days at least Charles & Diana were entertaining (if for the wrong reason).  William & Kate are just boring.  We always hear in the sycophantic press things like Kate's clothing is a nod to Princess Diana presumably because she's that dull she lives in the shadow of the past - enthusiasm for the institution has long evaporated.  As entertainment the children are vanilla with the possible exception of Louis who's Stepford Child programming seems to have gone wrong as he displays more expressions and emotions than the passive disinterest that is seemingly obligatory during ceremonial occasions which would be cute if it wasn't for the thought of the fates of some of the other previous Royal Spares including the one currently being investigated by plod.  Perhaps this is the result of the peculiar dynamics of a family where the first child is clearly favoured over the others.  

On the other end of the balcony the elderly Duke of Kent can get seen standing slightly alone ... Bless his little cotton socks... I remember when there were 30 of them crowded on there.  Clearly less enthusiasm to turn out when it involves being booed...