Melbourne pub under fire for tasteless posts about Queen Elizabeth
A Melbourne pub is under fire for its tasteless social media posts following Queen Elizabeth’s death.
Kelly’s Hotel in Cranbourne in Melbourne’s southeast shared Facebook updates after news broke of Queen Elizabeth’s death on September 8.
One of the posts shows a photo of Prince Harry looking down at his grandmother smiling with the caption, “Do lunch before they die. The opportunities after are extremely limited”.
Another post shows a photo of the queen with an inset of Prince Harry arriving to the palace after news broke of the late monarch’s death.
"Yep, he cancelled lunch, time and time again," the post read.
"'She’ll keep till next week!' he said, ‘It’s not as if it’s my Mum’s Mum’, he said.
"But next week never arrived for Grannie Windsor. Do lunch with your oldie!!"
The posts, which have since been deleted, received plenty of backlash from locals and social media users who are calling for a boycott of the pub.
“Disgusting and very distasteful. After our last visits we'd never go there again. It's just a no go zone," someone wrote.
"I know a few of us that will never go back...There is a difference between funny and grubby,” another commented.
The hotel’s manager Michael Goldie however defended the posts saying the point was misunderstood.
"Over the last two years they’ve been stuck in homes...we thought it might be good to remind younger people the importance of older people in their life," he said.
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