I'm afraid if you've got the same last name, and you happen to work for BMO in Victoria, people are going to inherently ask a lot of questions.
If you don't preempt those questions by making a very public statement, and making it very quickly after the fact ... you're going to have to put up with the public simply being the public and positing as to whether there is, or is not a relationship between the parties, simply because of these two very odd coincidences.
As always, there are choices to be made other than the ones the Admirals family initially made.
Nobody reading their attempt to chastise anybody asking questions is going to feel remotely bad about having asked questions ... which is why statements directed at chastising the inquisitive public in cases like this are a complete waste of time.
And of course, as always ... you can simply stay off an/or ignore social media sites altogether (or release a detailed statement much quicker than a week after the incident)
Edited by Spy Black, 04 July 2022 - 02:10 PM.