News, with a royal twist.

People were warned that a patrol was about to march through and with good reason. The mother should have controlled the child but didn’t. A bit like chucking yourself under a steam train - difficult to stop. The guard did well and fortunately the child wasn’t hurt.

Can I just make it clear that the word"trampling" was lifted from one of the many papers, not my choice of word. Other papers use stomping on, knocking to the ground, flattening, stepping on etc. all implying the fault was that of the Queen's Guard.

Nothing royal about it. Armed Guard marching in a straight line. You don't get in the way. Simples.

This is how you do it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A0_PLbNQ1o

Exactly EllenVannin. Such emotive language. Trampling? Hardly! Has anyone noticed how many are now 'forced' to take certain actions, according to the press, when in fact a reasonable occurence has required them to alter course in a normal, sensible and, usually temporary, way? They are alos usually 'devastated' - a word I would use to describe emotions after a loss of family, or a national tragedy, not perhaps the cancelling of a holiday.

I blame Prince Andrew.
Or alternatively, Meghan. ??

It’s not the parents fault, it’s the Queen

This one agrees with you all.

parents seem to think it's 'cute' to let their children get in the way of of marching soldiers, well they now know it is not. parents fault.

Watched the footage on the news last night. There was no trampling involved, just a child running in front of a soldier on parade who stepped over him.

The soldier enquired after the child as soon as he finished his drill

This one feels that parent's of the boy should have controlled him better. The soldiers have to march in time and if the soldier had swerved then the soldier behind him could have walked on him. Personally if I see a person in uniform carrying a rifle heading towards me, I would give them right of way. Maybe that's just me being risk averse

An accident exaggerated by the media. No one was hurt and apparently the soldier checked later to see if the boy was OK.

A royal twist ? Rock bottom and still drilling

More emotive reporting.
The soldier did not trample him, he stepped over him.

The child was old enough to know not to have been amongst the guards. He wasn't a toddler who'd just wandered unknowingly.

Some people delight in making something out of nothing.
There are far too many mountains out of molehills made in the name of journalism.

Very unfortunate for all concerned.

As Captain Mainwaring would have said,

‘Stupid boy!’

They are soldiers on duty not just there for tourists to gawp at or get in their way.

He didn't exactly trample on him.
Where were his parents?

I don’t see any “trampling”.

I see an 8/9 year old charging into a guard on parade.

That’s why witness statements are so unreliable.