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Originally posted by michelle@Apr 18th, 2004 - 5:00 pm
It's the same in Camille's case. I'll try to put it that way : If I were Stephanie and I happen to read these statements about my 5 and 9 year old daughters on some messageboard I'd always be a bit worried. Just because it sounds strange repeating how lovely and beautiful the girls are over and over again.
What's so interesting about their carecters? They're normal kids, doing all things that a million kids around the world do. And how can you all be sure about what their carecter is like. they never said anything in public, they're not even too concious about their status as a celebrity.
I just try to see that through Stephanie's eys....I know she wouldn't be too happy about this.
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To my knowledge, Stephanie does not read the comments made here by LTR members, nor do other royals. And from the comments I have read here, about not only Pauline and Camille, but about other young royal offspring, very rarely, are negative comments made about young children. So, even if Stephanie were to read this forum, what is so bad about hearing that people in the world think her daughters are pretty or have interesting personalities from what they can perceive from pictures?
And as I think that the majority of the members here will probably never meet Pauline or Camille, and can never judge for themselves what kind of character these girls have, then what is the problem in making such innocent comments based on pictures? If you read in the Swedish forum, Carl Phillip's girlfriend and Madeleine's boyfriend have never given interviews or made any public comments and it is not a problem to comment on the two of them. Maybe because they are older it is a bit of a different scenario, but based on your comments the reason we shouldn't comment on Pauline or Camille is because they are young and have never commented publicly about anything. On this basis, I would only say that one should be more
cautious in making comments about Pauline or Camille based on their age, but certainly not to make no comments at all.
If you read any other forum here, any thread about young royal offspring inevitably have phrases such as adorable, cute, gorgeous, etc. What is the problem with saying, for example, that Felix of Denmark has the most adorable pinchable cheeks? There is no harm that I can see in paying him such a compliment.
And the point of things here is to
discuss royal-related news and issues and matters, etc. If someone posts a picture of Pauline or Camille at some event (such as the circus) and someone comments that they thought Camille looked lovely that day, what is the harm in that? What else is there to say other than to thank the person who posted the pictures for doing so? That would make for a pretty boring MB!