Today's faux royal wedding Options

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That Wedding:

Disgraceful that TV Police (TV Taxpayers) facing costs estimated at £4m to indulge the
arrogant Prince Andrew's offspring.
Most definitely come out of his fortune not from public purse.

[The Hatter]

Foreign tourists don't come here to see the Royal family anymore than we go to Sweden to see theirs.

[Turin Machine]

Foreign tourists don't come here to see the Royal family anymore than we go to Sweden to see theirs.

VisitBritain reckons that tourism linked to royal residences such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle adds up to 2.7 million visitors a year.

And a consultancy called Brand Finance estimated in 2017 that the monarchy’s annual contribution to the UK economy to be around £1.8bn a year, drawing in an additional £550m of tourism revenues a year, and an increase in trade, from the Royal Family acting as ambassadors, supposedly worth £150m a year.

[The Hatter]

VisitBritain reckons that tourism linked to royal residences such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle adds up to 2.7 million visitors a year.

And a consultancy called Brand Finance estimated in 2017 that the monarchy’s annual contribution to the UK economy to be around £1.8bn a year, drawing in an additional £550m of tourism revenues a year, and an increase in trade, from the Royal Family acting as ambassadors, supposedly worth £150m a year.

The truth is that they came to see the historic buildings and the history. Just as the Russians found, the draw is the Hermitage, not the Czar. A lesson for us