Alison H
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Meghan said that they were never offered a hospital photocall, does that mean that H&M wanted it and were denied?
If they'd contacted the press and said they wanted a hospital photocall, the press would have been there as fast as humanly possible! They hushed it all up - there were reports that it was going to be a home birth, or at one of various different hospitals, and then they didn't announce she'd gone in until Archie had actually been born, and then they announced the birth about an hour later, and Harry made the announcement in person, and it was all just a bit crazy.
There's obviously no law requiring royal parents to present their baby, like the Lion King ?, but it's usually done and it's something that people really like. Harry and Meghan have done a lot of complaining about negative press attention, but the birth of a baby is something lovely, and those photocalls are a time for everyone (except the odd miserable republican) to rejoice and wish the parents and the new arrival well. Harry and Meghan weren't willing to do that, and people were disappointed.
OK, the public doesn't own them, and certainly doesn't own a new baby, but it would only have been a few minutes. It's not like anyone was expecting them to let members of the public queue up outside Frogmore to come inside and have a turn at holding the baby.
Again, they seem to be twisting the truth. They made a really big deal of not wanting a photocall. It caused a lot of disappointment. How can they now claim that they weren't offered something they'd made it crystal clear they didn't want? They wouldn't even release a photo taken privately, at first.