Per People’s report, George and his parents navigated “past penguins and polar bears and saw elves getting presents ready before meeting the man in red.” (Can you imagine being a for-hire Santa and being charged with greeting Prince George on your lap?!?! That’s like being a dance teacher at the YMCA and having Beyoncé come in to take a class.)
The family spent about 45 minutes at the site, and the general manager, Geraldine Rye, said “there was no special treatment for the royal family,” as they “walked through like everyone else.” She added, “Like all the children, George was excited by what he saw and excited to meet Santa.” People’s report ends with the note that, “like the other kids,” George received a wooden toy train from Santa. Ummmm, we’re all for equality and fairness, and it could have conceivably been traumatic for the other kids if they had all received pieces of stale Bazooka gum while George received a gold-plated gum-ball machine, but . . . a wooden toy train? That’s it?! Not even a train set? Just one individual car of a train?! And not even a nifty computerized or mechanical one?! What do you even do with that? We understand it’s not exactly easy coming up with a present for the toddler who has everything, but c’mon, guys. We will admit, though, to being especially tough critics when it comes to Lil’ George; if you told us the Santa had offered up his first-born and half his life savings to George, we’d probably say that was just-barely passable.
