Should a 6-year old be exposed in this way?

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Here in the UK, the younger members of our royal family are on a bit of a charm offensive, partly in response to public concern that they really weren't pulling their weight in terms of public appearances. When the patriarch, Prince Phillip, retires after nearly 70 years of public duty and still high up in the ranks of hard workers, his grandsons look a bit lightweight. Cue lots of rather commendable work to raise mental health awareness and, the most latest event, a garden party for the children and partners of service men and women who lost their lives for their country. Most of the news coverage focused on six-year old Jack Rigby and his mum. Jack's dad Lee was killed by a knife wielding IS supporter whilst walking near his barracks in London a few years back. Of course this young lad should be at such an event but is it right that his picture is now all over the papers and the TV? The royals have often begged for privacy from the paparazzi and so-called celebrities are forever moaning about people publishing photos of their children. My husband, who works in a prison full of murderers, has a very cynical outlook on life and was horrified that this young boy was being shown to the world. "Are they crazy?" he said, "Don't they realise they're making this poor kid and his mum even more of a potential target for crazies?" Already the Rigby family have suffered a thousand terrible torments - from losing Lee, to seeing ultra-right wing groups claiming his death as justification for their unsavoury acts and opinions, to a fund-raiser stealing the money he raised for Jack's benefit. I would also say that a part of me thinks that singling out one child for attention when hundreds of other young attendees have also lost their dads or mums is rather callous. Every death is a tragedy, not just the ones that the public reads about in the papers.