Melbourne pub under fire for tasteless posts about Queen Elizabeth
<p dir="ltr">A Melbourne pub is under fire for its tasteless social media posts following Queen Elizabeth’s death. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Kelly’s Hotel in Cranbourne in Melbourne’s southeast shared Facebook updates after news broke of Queen Elizabeth’s death on September 8. </p>
<p dir="ltr">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”. </p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">"Yep, he cancelled lunch, time and time again," the post read.</p>
<p dir="ltr">"'She’ll keep till next week!' he said, ‘It’s not as if it’s my Mum’s Mum’, he said.</p>
<p dir="ltr">"But next week never arrived for Grannie Windsor. Do lunch with your oldie!!"</p>
<p dir="ltr">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. </p>
<p dir="ltr">“Disgusting and very distasteful. After our last visits we'd never go there again. It's just a no go zone," someone wrote. </p>
<p dir="ltr">"I know a few of us that will never go back...There is a difference between funny and grubby,” another commented.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The hotel’s manager Michael Goldie however defended the posts saying the point was misunderstood. </p>
<p dir="ltr">"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. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>Images: Facebook</em></p>
