Here’s a quick royal story that will hopefully make you laugh on this dreary, terrible day (I’m not looking forward to tonight’s debate, can you tell?). I’ve been laughing about this since I saw the video on Sunday! As you know, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived in Victoria, Canada on Saturday evening. They did a meet-and-greet on the tarmac, where they were greeted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie, plus other Canadian dignitaries. It was a nice moment where the Canadian people got to see the two cute Cambridge children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. And just like George’s first royal tour to New Zealand and Australia, Prince George already hates meeting the so-called “leaders” of other countries. Doesn’t Justin Trudeau know that One Does Not High Five? That’s what happened on the tarmac – PM Trudeau bent down to speak to Prince George and Trudeau tried to engage with the cute little prince by offering a high five. George left him hanging.
Dear prime minister: Prince George did not come here to “high five,” sir. He came to RULE. One does not high five or engage with the peasants. Please. As if.
Obviously, George is just a kid and he isn’t trained for any of this – he’s just a kid being a kid. But when he grows up and starts doing his own royal tours, he’s going to hear all of the stories from all of these people. “Remember when you greeted President Obama in your little bathrobe?” And “Remember when you refused to high five the Canadian prime minister?” It’s funny.
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Aw, he’s a four-year-old. Love them at that age. I asked my nephew for a hug, he gave it to me. His grandmother asked, he said no with a big grin. Capricious little guy.
George is 3. Not 4.
Oh good lord, fine. He’s a young child.
Pre-school age is the best ever! They don’t give two f-s about anything- no shame, no embarrassment, no worries.
Actually, my Canadian kid being raised in the UK did the same thing when we went back to Canada for a trip and some friends of mine tried to high five her. I guess the high five is just not a British thing for kids (take note Justin)…
People used to try to get my son to high 5 and we honestly never taught it to him. We finally figured we should since that seems to be what people do.
The way George shook his head no, I think he may have been taught that it’s not fitting for a royal to do. I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m sure he starts his ‘training’ from the womb. Just smile and wave, George. Smile and wave. 🙂
Personally I can’t stand the high-5 thing, so incredibly overworked and annoying, high-five! high-five! I hope it dies out and hopefully soon. Good for George.
My nephew is three and would probably stick his tongue out at the PM.
Right? It’s impressive that he engaged him at all at that age. My son would ignore him and tell me he didn’t want to talk to him probably and he’s 3. George is very cute!
Hee hee. Love when kids do stuff like that
So typical of Prince George. “I don’t high five peasants!”
What a beautiful little kid. Love how the kids are dressed too! I feel like if boys here in the U.S. were dressed in knee high socks they would be made fun of. Love the look:)
Most British kids would be made fun of too, but if we made fun of George his great-Gran would chop our heads off, so… 😉
Rebuffed by an adorable four year old.
He’s adorable; he’s going to be very tall.
LOL he is so cute
High fiving seems strange sometimes. When my kid came to the West at a young age, she was, like, “Why do these people keep hitting each other?”
George knows what’s up! Good judge of character already! 😝
LOL- yes!!
+1!!
I laughed so hard at this. And I look forward to the addition of memes as well. I feel like the only world leader George was remotely nice to was the POTUS. Probably because the POTUS is magical with children.
Also Charlotte is a DOLL. A mini-Elizabeth for sure. It’s uncanny
There is a series of pictures showing POTUS holding babies, and each one is blissful and calm. Then the same series shows Trump awkwardly holding a number of screaming unhappy babies.
I know, it’s shocking at times how much she looks like the Queen!
How can I put this nicely? I don’t want to criticize the looks of a little girl, but…A one year old toddler does not look like a 90 year old woman. If you see a resemblance, it’s becuse the queen looks grumpy when she’s not smiling and Charlotte has a similar expression, she looks like a little old lady. But there is no real physical resemblance. The queen at Charlotte’s age was a lovely little girl, with dimples, golden curls and big blue eyes. Charlotte is anything but conventionally pretty. She looks like Carole and Pippa. Anne’s granddaughters and Louise Wessex are the ones who look like the queen.
😂😂 So cute! He’s like nope, not today. Also I can’t get over those lil knees in his shorts. Adorable.
Cute kids, but I feel like he might get bullied in school if they keep dressing him like that. George looks like he’s about to ask “Are you my mummy?”
I very much doubt he dresses like that for school. They doll him up in dated looks for these events.
another reason why school uniforms are so awesome…
He’s royal, privileged, and upper-class though. He’ll be sent to one of those posh British schools where everybody dresses like him (or where they wear uniforms).
It’s not like he’ll be hanging around kids like Honey Boo Boo.
The only way I can see him being bullied is if he’s a snot-nosed brat. And even then he’ll probably be taller than everyone else so they might be too scared to pick on him.
But there is a happy medium between privileged upper-class and Honey Boo Boo…I just don’t see why they need to dress him like a tiny time traveler from world war two.
Honestly, he just looks like he’s dressed for the occasion to me (i.e as in having your picture taken for diplomatic reasons). For his status, I wouldn’t expect him to be dressed like the Jolie-Pitt kids either (who are rich, but dress…well, not much different from kids on reality shows).
His dressing doesn’t look odd to me, but I don’t know if that’s because he’s a boy and boys’ dressing always seems much simpler to handler to me than girls’ dressing. The options for boys seems fairly limited. What else can they wear but pants or shorts with some kind of jumper or shirt?
Charlotte will have more options as a girl to dress in whatever she wants, I think.
I don’t see how shorts and knee-high socks to a formal event is considered “proper” attire. In the US most (not all) parents dress their little boys in long khaki pants and formal dress shoes. Shorts are usually for casual play time.
I love George the bruiser and hate Kate and Wills’ dorky 1950’s school clothes they put on him every time. Why doesn’t Kate spend the next year wearing the same dress for every event. Oh that’s right, then she wouldn’t be
featured in magazines or web blogs! It almost seems like she doesn’t want her kids to outshine her in the fashion department. Yeah I went there!
“In the US most (not all) parents dress their little boys in long khaki pants and formal dress shoes.”
He’s not from the US though. I can’t recall William in khaki pants as a kid either. He and William generally seemed to wear some kind of formal shorts as children with dressy type shoes. Whenever I’ve seen shots of William and Harry at his age they look dressed like George, even when dressed for the first day of posh public school with those dressy school uniform jackets. Later on at around 11, William was wearing full-on suits when photographed with his parents. I suspect that’s how George will be dressing when he’s older
I think Kate dresses awful, but the kids look presentable to me. But kids can look good in anything, imo, so long as their faces are clean and they have properly combed hair.
“He’s not from the US though”
Nor is he in England, he is visiting another country. I’m not familiar with Canada but do young kids wear shorts and knee high socks as formal wear or to visit the prime minister of the country? I wonder if Will and Kate also did not get to read the briefing on dress codes.
I just don’t recall many western countries outside of school uniforms, using shorts as formal attire that’s why many people (not just from the US) find the way Wills and Kate dress George to be odd.
“Nor is he in England, he is visiting another country”
Nobody expects Kate to wear a sari when she goes to India, so I don’t know if there’s really an expectation that George dress like a typical Canadian/American kid either when he enters their shores (whatever typically Canadian or American might mean fashion-wise.) If George dressed differently from William as a kid, I would get that he looks terrible for formal events, but his way of dressing seems in keeping with how his predecessors have dressed. (I think Charles wore those somewhat girly-looking dress coats over his clothes, but I’m not sure how that would fly today. If the socks with dress shorts and formal shoes are considered bad, then I don’t know how that kind of coat would be received).
I also don’t know if 3-8 year olds go out of their way to notice how other 3-8 year olds dress so that’s probably why I don’t expect anyone would make fun of George. All that mocking happens later in the teen years, and from what I remember William wasn’t a dork-i-ly dressed teenager. William looked good as a teenager and twenty-something. It’s only now that we’re making fun of him and that’s because he’s so lazy, not because he dresses badly (though that’s more because men don’t really have the number of options that women do in order to look awful in their dressing).
I read that Kate dresses him like that on purpose so that when he’s dressed in normal little boy clothes with tousled hair, he isn’t recognizable.
I read that too. I think this is the article you’re referring to, if anyone else is interested: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/12/prince-george-s-secret-childhood-how-a-little-royal-goes-incognito.html
He’s only three, he would much rather be at home playing with his toys.
My grown son saw that, laughed his ass off and said George was his new spirit animal. Trust a child to look around at grown assesd adults and know HE was the only one who really knew what’s what!
I repeat: We Are All Prince George.
Not today, sir, not today.
He’s such a funny, charismatic kid. Definitely his uncle’s nephew, at least for now. As for PM Trudeau? Swoon!
I know right. He is so opposite from his parents.
PM Trudeau is dreamy!
Hahaha – funny thou George did look a bit ‘WTF’ at it all.
Those kids are cute – Charlotte is Carole’s double thou there is a hint of TQ around the eyes.
Is it bad to say I don’t think Charlotte is that cute?
I’m not a baby/toddler person, so I don’t think either of the kids is cute, but that’s because I don’t think any kids are cute generally. I do feel bad for Charlotte, though, because she appears to have gotten the Windsor genes, which for her sake I hope don’t *really* kick in until she’s quite a bit older, otherwise she’ll take a beating in the press.
If it is, I’m bad too. She’s sweet-looking but not as cute as George.
I hope for her sake she looks nothing like Diana. The press will try to turn her into her grandmother, seeing how they failed to do so with Kate.
There is an age when youngsters grow very shy around adults, even though they previously engaged with ease. It’s usually around two. But that’s just an average.
I wonder if they’re at least trying to get him to be comfortable around people. I know he is very young and many toddlers are quite shy around strangers, but in the few times they’ve had him out in public for events he seems rather uncomfortable. Maybe I’m just comparing him to Princess Victoria of Sweden’s daughter, who has known how to work the room since she was a tiny little thing.
For some kids it’s a sensory overload, and there’s only so much you can do.
They did just get off the plane, so he might have been sleepy or cranky too.
It’s pretty hilarious, he’s just a normal kid 🙂
On a more serious note, i like that all involved respected his right to refuse. Too often, parents force kids to high five or hug people when they aren’t ready. It should definitely be up to a child to decide when they’re comfortable.
I love that face! So continues George’s plot for world domination…. It begins with pushing over other babies in New Zealand and continues with the snubbing of world leaders.
Ok, George is just a kid..but he is not ‘any’ kid. He should be gently prepped for this.. it is clear that these poor kids don’t meet a lot of new people. Also, in this video, Justin spoke to George for quiet a bit, trying a high-5, hand shake etc. WIlliam should have gently prodded George to respond… But William who does not read trip notes wouldnt really bother would he..
Thank you for this. While the kid is cute it reflects rather poorely on his parents. I may be biased because of my resentment for Will and Kate since I find them both to be underperforming in their royal duties if stated gently. They are in the position of privilege and power and they seem lazy and ignorant. The only royal duty they seem to still fullfil to extent is traveling and meeting heads of states. They should teach their kids to act appropreatly. You can see in the video Justin tried for some time and failed. That speaks in my mind to lack of manners. I mean if I can teach my 3 year old some manners and respond when an adult is greeting him then they can do that also. And I do not have the nannies but I have a job. And it’s not my day job to wave to peasants. And it’s not something difficult like forcing a child to sit though some boring political speech. Will and Kate are a disgrace to his grandmother who had to represent the monachy in the time of war for example. Nowerdays the royals just keep on sucking out the tax payers’ money.
Now that I agree with. George is demonstrating normal behavior for a 3 year old. But this is the point where as a parent you step in and encourage. Could you imagine the photo op if William had actually got down and interacted with his kid and Trudeau?
It kind of looked like William wasn’t paying attention to what was going on (which is weird).
In the photo with Obama, George shook his hand and you can see William crouching down.
Oddly enough, I think Kate and William did crouch down later on but not at the pivotal moment when Trudeau was trying to high five George’s hand. It seemed like the parents didn’t even notice Trudeau was there when he was greeting George (which is odd, uh, considering they’re being hosted by Trudeau and Canada).
Re: them not looking at Trudeau, there were other VIPs there, including the Governor General, David Johnston (the guy with the white hair). The GG is mostly a figurehead in practice, but much like Queen in the UK, he is technically higher-ranking than the PM.