British Council employee attacks Prince George's 'white privilege' on Facebook

Pedal a tricycle. Don't touch hot surfaces.Play nice with others.Swipe left to right.Of all the things pre-schoolersare taught by their parents, "haters gonna hate" doesn't generally come up.

Alas, like many peoplein the public eye, some kids take heatfor doing nothing at all or, in the case of three-year-old Prince George,for the way they smile in a picture online.

A 52-year-old British Council employee is in hot water this week for allegedly slamming the eldest son of Prince William and Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge,for his "cheeky grin" and "white privilege" onFacebook.

According to the Sun, which first spotted the post,Angela Gibbinswas serving ashead of global estates at the "part taxpayer-funded council" when she commented on a photo of Georgethat someone else had captioned, "Iknow he's only two years old, but Prince George already looks like a f--king d--khead."

"White privilege," Gibbinsis said to have replied."That cheeky grin is the innate knowledge he's royal, rich, advantaged and will never know *any* difficulties or hardships in life.Let's find photos of [three-year-old] Syrian refugee children and see if they look alike, eh?"

Later in thethread, whiledefending her initial comments to otherFacebook users, Gibbins allegedly wrote:"I don't believe the Royal Family have any place in a modern democracy, least of all when they live on public money. That's privilege and it needs to end."

As news of the Facebook post rips through U.K. social media circles, fans of the young prince and his family are taking to Twitter with insults for the British Council manager.

Gibbinsappears to have set her own Twitter profile to private, however. Her tweetswere not visible as of Tuesday evening, but a cached version of the page shows that@AngParrotwas a public profile earlier in the day.

The British Council, which billsitself as"the United Kingdom's international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities,"released a statement on Tuesday morning to address the controversy.

"The British Council expects the highest standards of our staff and in accordance with our code of conduct we have started disciplinary procedures with the individual concerned," it reads. "This comment was made on a private social media account. It has absolutely no connection to the British Council and does not represent our views and values."