I don't get all this hype about the royal wedding?

[wixard]

i just wanna see her dress

[Triz]

i just wanna see her dress

There is this:

Ms Middleton’s wedding gown has remained a closely guarded secret as Palace Officials have claimed she wants to surprise Prince William on the day, but that hasn’t stopped the rumour-mill, regarding designers and styles, going into overdrive.

The latest person to give his thoughts on the gown is David Emanuel, the man behind Princess Diana’s iconic wedding dress.

Speaking to Shelagh Fogarty, on 5 live breakfast, he said: "A slightly classical, old-fashioned, Hollywood, lace dress could be sensational."

[Jssy]

I'm not hyped up about it lol, it's just another ordinary day for me.

[Eoin247]

I'm sick of people complaining about the "losses for the economy" on a Bank Holiday. Most people get a day off work or school thanks to the bank holiday, you're not forced to watch the Wedding so ******* enjoy yourself a bit. How often do Royal Weddings happen? Another significant one won't happen for another 25 years at least till Prince William has a child and they choose to marry.

It's bringing in a ridiculous amount of tourists to London (and the rest of the UK) anyway and will do so for years to come, then there's loads of souvenirs etc to sell them too. Economically it all just about balances out, the Royal family and Middletons are putting a lot of the money towards it.

The Royal Family has done far more for this country than anyone else, it's largely down to them we live in such a great and wealthy country today. Today they're extremely charitable and help with an awful lot of causes and diplomatically, it's very surprising how busy all the Royal Family is, no pensioners of the Queens age travel around anywhere near as much as she does. It's simply not true that they sit at home all day and drain the taxpayer. Yes we maybe in a bit of a debt but this is just one day to have a bank holiday and celebrate.

I agree, and may I highlight that when this Royal Wedding was announced it was announced that the Royal Family and the Middleton Family would be paying for around 80 or 90% of the wedding costs, I think the only thing coming from the tax payer is the security for the day, which is fair enough since this will be provided by the police, army etc - who are paid by the British tax payer on any other day.

I thought the royal family get all their money from the taxpayer anyway so why does that make a difference? Unless they have some other source of income i'm unaware about?

[Hecktix]

I thought the royal family get all their money from the taxpayer anyway so why does that make a difference? Unless they have some other source of income i'm unaware about?

In comparison to what the family is worth they get a small sum each year from the taxpayer, not much and anybody that says otherwise is foolish. This comment is quite silly itself, Eoin

[-:Undertaker:-]

I thought the royal family get all their money from the taxpayer anyway so why does that make a difference? Unless they have some other source of income i'm unaware about?

This can be reformed, as I understand it at the moment the Royal family is funded via the Civil list - the other option is to return Crown lands (the Crown Estate) to productive use so that the family can manage its own finances as it formerly did so. I favour this as does the political party I support, from my memory. But the royal family compared to the costs of the European Union (which is not elected and exercises swathes of power over our national parliament) is nothing. The Royal Family ensures we have consitutional stability that other nations such as France can only crave.

Now the trend i've always noticed when the debate of the monarchy comes up, is that most republicans are to the left and are supportive of the European Union - I believe you yourself are, are you not Eoin? so Royalists will not take lectures from Republicans who bow to the bland grey empire over in Brussels which does not have our national interests at heart and does not care for our culture and traditions.

On another note, do you not pay via your taxes for your rather dull President and Taoiseach anyway? (security, offical functions and so forth)

[Firehorse]

You're complaining about a few million being spent on a royal wedding which was estimated to have been watched by around 15x the amount of people who watched Avatar and will bring millions back to the economy from other countries in terms of tourism. If someone has a day off work it isn't bad for the economy, the money "being lost" from people taking one day off work still stays in the country and continues to circulate. Millions for a royal family, but billions for the european union that does us little good and opens the borders to 28 other countries for easy immigration which causes a longer term problem through Britain's benefit system.

Also maybe if you stopped watching cnn and started watching a different news source you'd get a less tabloid styled coverage.

[cocaine]

because its british tradition, enough said

[Jahova]

The royal wedding was the best thing on television for years!

[Eoin247]

In comparison to what the family is worth they get a small sum each year from the taxpayer, not much and anybody that says otherwise is foolish. This comment is quite silly itself, Eoin

How is what i said silly? I wasn't talking about what they are possibly worth to the economy. It was you who differenciated between the royals and the taxpayer paying for the wedding. I was wondering why and asking if they had another source of income. Yet you didn't answer that and still called my answer silly. I'm not saying you shouldn't have a royal wedding. By all means do. I was just wondering how things like over 300,000 worth of dresses for the bride (i mean 3 dresses just in case one gets leaked out?) sit well with you all?

This can be reformed, as I understand it at the moment the Royal family is funded via the Civil list - the other option is to return Crown lands (the Crown Estate) to productive use so that the family can manage its own finances as it formerly did so. I favour this as does the political party I support, from my memory. But the royal family compared to the costs of the European Union (which is not elected and exercises swathes of power over our national parliament) is nothing. The Royal Family ensures we have consitutional stability that other nations such as France can only crave.

Now the trend i've always noticed when the debate of the monarchy comes up, is that most republicans are to the left and are supportive of the European Union - I believe you yourself are, are you not Eoin? so Royalists will not take lectures from Republicans who bow to the bland grey empire over in Brussels which does not have our national interests at heart and does not care for our culture and traditions.

On another note, do you not pay via your taxes for your rather dull President and Taoiseach anyway? (security, offical functions and so forth)

You know my stance on the EU. I believe that done the right way the EU can be a very good thing. It sure isn't perfect at the moment, but if we can get the right people to restructure it i believe the benefits for Europe would be huge.

I'm not disagreeing with paying some money for people who represent your country at all. A wedding however doesn't have to cost what the royal wedding costs, does it? If our preseident tried to be even a fraction as extravagant for her wedding, you would have half the country out on the streets protesting. In fact i'm not sure because i can't remember it ever happening, but i'm pretty sure that the taxpayer wouldn't pay for weddings for any politician or the president.

You're complaining about a few million being spent on a royal wedding which was estimated to have been watched by around 15x the amount of people who watched Avatar and will bring millions back to the economy from other countries in terms of tourism. If someone has a day off work it isn't bad for the economy, the money "being lost" from people taking one day off work still stays in the country and continues to circulate. Millions for a royal family, but billions for the european union that does us little good and opens the borders to 28 other countries for easy immigration which causes a longer term problem through Britain's benefit system.

Firstly it's not just a few million? What's your definition of a few? A day off work for a country is bad for the economy in more ways than just retained wages. Things that could have been produced and exported on that day are not for example.