Nope - there’s a beer festival on that day, so I’m going to be using the extra holiday to get drunk and eat pies. It’s what Diana would have wanted.
Good god no. I can’t even watch the news this week, as half of it seems to be taken up with fawning over a bunch of privileged rich people. How the UK puts up with this enormous expense is beyond me.
What expense? They are paying for it themselves.
If I’m up I’ll watch it, otherwise no. I especially got up to see Diana and Charles get married, and then PBS re-ran it later on that night. I was mad about that 
Not only that people are raking it in. I saw on the Daily Business Report, London hotels are pulling in twice normal rates, and sales of all sorts of paraphernalia are through the roof so that is helping the economy a bit
So they’re paying for all the cops’ salaries, the security run-ups, the horse guards, the police dogs, and the cleanup afterwards? Wow, who knew they were such philanthropists?
No, and neither should they. They pay tax, the same as everyone else, and as such are entitled to the protection of the police.
My understanding is that the Royals are paying for the private element of the ceremony, and taxes are paying for the public element, including security, and making arrangements for members of the public who want to come watch. I can’t find a cite for this, not that I looked for very long, but that’s what I read months ago.
I still don’t understand how people who don’t own hotels (or restaurants, or pubs) are benefited by this kind of thing. Those hotels aren’t even necessarily owned by Britons.
Englishman here. I will be doing my damnedest to avoid it.
Not everyone is as curmudgeonly as me, however. One of my colleagues is going to a garden party, and my parents are having a special do at their club, where they’ve got a big screen, and their village is already festooned with Union flags etc.
i’ll watch with my tiara on.
like savannah i watched with my mum when c&d married. we dressed and had breakies while watching. my mum has passed as well so…
this time it will just be me and the cats. the furry ones will have fancy feast and i’m still planning the breakies menu.
I’ll be in London in the morning, but head straight for Aberdeen as that is almost as far away from the circus I can get on the island.
Considering where they both went to uni, I’m not sure Aberdeen is going to be exactly quiet about the wedding.
I’ll watch it live because 4:30am happens to be my “me” time to do silly things like that. If it’s moving slowly or boring I’ll DVR it and click around the next morning.
And I just really want to see the dresses. And the horsies.
Gotta admit the Brits know how to put on a show – weddings, funerals, coronations – they’ve got it.
Hope it doesn’t rain (much).
Couldn’t possibly care any less. If I cared any less, I wouldn’t even know about it.
I like to see the carriages and the uniforms and the ceremony before the ceremony. I watched Charles and Diana’s wedding. I also got up to see Princess Anne’s wedding. I’ll want to see the hats.
We didn’t have 24 hour news channels then. I’m sure I’ll be able to see all the parts I enjoy without making any extra effort to see it live.
Kate won’t be taking a carriage to the church. She and her dad ride in a regular old car, and afterwards Will and Kate (or “Princess Catherine” as she will be then) ride in a carriage back to the palace.
I wonder what the dress looks like. I hope she doesn’t have a ridiculously long train. I mean Diana looked fantastic, but that’s been done.
100th “No” vote! w00t!!!
A “regular old” RR Phantom, I think I heard. . .
Yes, I know. But still not the glassed-in carriage that Diana had…