People Are Not Impressed With Prince George's Latest Royal Outing

Prince George has found himself the centre of a public outrage after a recent royal outing.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent the weekend recently at the Queen’s Scottish estate, Balmoral Castle, with their three children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte and baby Prince Louis.

Royal correspondent Emily Andrews, reported that Kate Middleton took her eldest son George on his first grouse hunt, along with several other members of the family including the Queen and Prince Charles.

Kate, William, George, Charlotte & Louis are spending this weekend at Balmoral with HM. George was taken to his first grouse shoot on Friday by Kate, with the Queen, Charles, Edward, Sophie, Louise & James, Anne, Zara & Mike Tindall joining for lunch.Quite the family fun!(2017????) pic.twitter.com/I8cj1OGCB6

— Emily Andrews (@byEmilyAndrews) August 26, 2018

Royal fans were not impressed!

People soon jumped on the report to share their disgust at such an outing.

Comments include:

“Not a fan of these so-called traditions. Didn’t William visit a sanctuary in India and vowed to continue his crusade to protect Wildlife . You can’t have it both ways my dear William.”

“Hunting WAS a pastime. It is not joyful anymore to hunt. However, I understand that people (Royals or Non Royals) hunt for various and viable reasons, but Shooting for fun is disgusting.”

“It may be ‘tradition’ but I really wish they would get called out more for these shootings. It’s horrible and has no place today.”

“They should be setting a good example. Disgusting.”

“George, taught to murder animals at five years old. @KensingtonRoyal @RoyalFamily”

“Fun? Shooting animals, a five year old … family fun? I would feel the same if it were a five year old in my own family.”

“Absolutely disgusting! The ‘royal’ family should be setting an example, rather than slaughtering innocent birds – horrendous, but so typically British!”

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17 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 31 Oct 2022
    11:35 am
When I was a kid my Dad used to go out and hunt for various wild birds. he would come home and pluck them, gut them, etc and they would go into the freezer.
He would go fishing and stock up the freezer. We also collected shellfish and if we were lucky Dad would catch the odd crayfish or crabs.
He would also collect wild mushrooms.
We grew veggies and fruits.
its how we lived.

- - tessie said
  - 04 Sep 2018
    9:02 am
Who knows, he may have asked to go and who’s to say they were going to shoot them.

- - rovermum said
  - 03 Sep 2018
    10:12 am
Not enough info for me to be outraged about. And also, I don’t care!

- - Blossom said
  - 01 Sep 2018
    5:33 am
Were they actually hunting them to shoot them?….or is the time of year when they are around and the children can be shown them?

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 01 Sep 2018
    4:59 am
I don’t have a problem with hunting. IF your killing for food that you actually need. This is just sport. It’s not right.

- - mom111059 said
  - 31 Aug 2018
    11:41 pm
Terrible to teach George hunting is fine. Disgusting

- - curlytops said
  - 31 Aug 2018
    11:30 pm
Poor George being caught up in a decision made for him

- - musicmum said
  - 31 Aug 2018
    8:10 pm
I am sick of the two faced royals, on one had they say they will protect the environment and support good causes etc, yet they continue with these disgusting traditions. A 5 year old should not be near guns either. About time the royals got with the times and realized animal cruelty is not on. Loss of wild areas due to agriculture is leading cause of the current mass extinction of wildlife. I choose to be vegan because it is the only way out of this mess humans have made.

- - Ellen said
  - 30 Aug 2018
    7:38 am
Eating meat and hunting is for me personally the same: it’s both killing or promoting to have animals killed. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.
- musicmum replied
  
  31 Aug 2018 , 8:13 pm
  Being a vegetarian is not enough to stop the cruelty of animals, you need to go vegan, not hard, check out forksoverknives.com for inspirations. The dairy industry is still one of the cruelest industries. And egg farming too.
  - Ellen replied
    
    02 Sep 2018 , 4:16 am
    
    Been there and done that when I was single.
    I’m married with someone who loves to eat meat
    But I know, that’s why we use HowNowMilk https://hownowdairy.com.au/about/ or raw milk straight from the farm, love coconut milk & yoghurt too
    and have our own backyard chickens
- - mom93821 said
  - 30 Aug 2018
    6:34 am
It would be interesting to know if they eat the birds? Do they hunt and then eat the birds because they are on the estate. Not a fan of hunting and killing animals for pleasure. Self sufficiency is a completely different issue; however; I am not convinced the Royals live according to self sufficiency!

- - mom160421 said
  - 29 Aug 2018
    9:37 pm
Hunting for sport/fun is disgusting and immoral.
- mom93821 replied
  
  31 Aug 2018 , 5:42 am
  Photos I have seen of trophy hunting on facebook pages have repulsed me.
- - ashna9 said
  - 29 Aug 2018
    7:33 pm
Personally I think 5 is way too early to be around hunting but it is a popular past time for royals so they all probably start young.

- - mom81879 said
  - 29 Aug 2018
    7:15 pm
Yeah, I’ll never see what the joy is in shooting living things for fun. Maybe a tradition that needs reviewing and updating, definitely not for small children

- - mom90758 said
  - 29 Aug 2018
    2:50 pm
Probably a tradition that should be revised somehow.