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Last updated at 21:48pm on 25th September 2006

Linley daughter clings on for dear life during rush hour school ride



Just because a child is born into the Royal Family, it doesn't mean she has to be mollycoddled.

But Viscount Linley's method of taking his four-year-old daughter to school seemed hardly befitting for a girl who is 14th in line to the throne.

The Hon Margarita Armstrong-Jones had to cling desperately to Daddy's coattails while his foldaway bicycle dodged through rush-hour traffic on the King's Road in West London.

The 44-year-old son of the late Princess Margaret looked far from steady as he balanced his daughter's school bags on the handlebars.

As for Margarita, she perched on what appeared to be a paper rack, barely above the height of the back wheel.

DailyMail

Aww she looks like she's about to fall off at any minute!

That's what I would call grossly irresponsible. Given the new legislation regarding booster seats in cars.

That bike looks like it would crumple in a second if hit by anything at all...

For all we know he could be a brilliant parent 99% of the time and yet is slammed for one photo taken of him. She has a helmet on and he can put his foot comfortably on the floor rather than being on a big bike that imho she would be at greater risk from. Speaking as a parent (and no offense to anyone who has commented who isn't a parent) I would ask someone to walk a mile in my shoes before they pass judgement on my child raising abilities. I have seen far worse and more dangerous parenting than that. He may well be a very good dad. Give the guy a chance it's a bloody nightmare getting your kids to school every day with all the stuff they have to carry too! She could be having a great time!

I am tremendously sympathetic with the sort of dilligent mother who turns her back for an eye blink, who leaves a child in the bath to answer the door and sign for a package only to scurry back and find her daughter has hit her head on the faucet and drowned in two inches of water. Does anyone give the woman credit for the twenty four hours-minus three minutes a day that she watched the child like a hawk? for the months, the years of ''don't put that in your mouth'' of ''whoops we almost fell down'' Oh no. We prosecute those people. We call it criminal parental neglegence and drag them to court through the snot and salty tears of their own grief. Because only the three minutes count, those three miserable minutes that were just enough.


From We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

That still chokes me now. It's so true!

I totally agree BB.

And what's more - 14th in line to the throne fps - you're probably closer than that Boop!

well I can be quite posh when I want to

And well I know it!

She does have tea with the queen

no that's just my mum who hasn't yet realised she's not actually the queen.

By calling a parent's action grossly irresponsible in one aspect does NOT mean that I think they are a bad parent!!!! Needed to clarify that.

And, as a teacher of young kids, I realise that you can never actually be vigilant enough. Accidents happen.

As a teacher of young children and a parent I know that one of them is 24/7 for ever and the other starts at 9.00 and ends at 3.30.

None of us are experts. Parents or teachers and none of us should claim to be. Who knows what the bigger picture was of that one shown ^^ Like I say, at least she was wearing a helmet...

I hear what you are saying. Though what is worse for those of us who are teachers is that we are required to be MUCH more careful than parents. As we get sued for the least wee thing and many parents don't actually care for their kids at all. Sad, but true.

I have never been sued! I don't know any teacher in the profession that has.(working int he school I do or the surrounding ones) Maybe you do I don't know. However I disagree that you have to be MUCH more careful. Surely a parent doesn't say 'oh well the teachers have to be more careful so I neededn't be' ???? I would also say the majority of parents care very, very much for their children and it is the minority that sadly don't.