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The BBC has waived any license fee requirement for public showing of the wedding - mainly for street parties of which a surprisingly large number have been declared in Bromley, apparently. Clearly ED republicanism isn't replicated further south and east.

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> The BBC has waived any license fee requirement for

> public showing of the wedding - mainly for street

> parties of which a surprisingly large number have

> been declared in Bromley.


I'm not that surprised. True blue in Bromley.

Are you mixing up your princes, uncleglen? The OP is about the wedding of the sixth in line to the throne (the one whose provenance has been questioned for 30 years) to the American divorcee (the one who wants to be royal so she can 'give women a voice' (eh?) but who doesn't want to follow royal protocols on dress and behaviour).

flocker spotter Wrote:

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> anywhere in the 'hood showing or commemorating

> this offensive event will be added to the

> household blacklist



M&S are selling tins of biscuits with Harry and Meghan wedding details on it, presumably commemorative?

flocker spotter Wrote:

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> anywhere in the 'hood showing or commemorating this offensive event will be added to the

> household blacklist


I have little interest in the event, but 'offensive'? Really?


Bit of a hypersensitive reaction to a wedding.

siousxiesue Wrote:

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> flocker spotter Wrote:

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> > anywhere in the 'hood showing or commemorating this offensive event will be added to the

> > household blacklist

>

>

> M&S are selling tins of biscuits with Harry and Meghan wedding details on it, presumably

> commemorative?


I bet they're not as good as this...


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Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> I have a huge respect for the Queen herself but

> I'd like to see an end to the practice of awarding

> titles and honours to her family. So

> anachronistic.


Could be Duchess of Connaught - now would that be a nod to Ireland or a bit of an insult.

but I'd like to see an end to the practice of awarding titles and honours to her family.


Sorry, but the very basis of a monarchy, constitutional or otherwise, is that children of monarchs, and grandchildren, become princes and princesses (although in Russia they were Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses). If you think that, and a title which doesn't give you a seat in the lords, is meaningful in anyway other than as ceremonial flummery then you are subscribing to the old deference society. Calling people Mr and Mrs is a shortened form of Master and Mistress - do you rate this at all nowadays? (The peasantry if called anything might be 'Goodman' and 'Goodwife') The Princess Royal (Anne) chose for her children not to be royally entitled. Good for her, of course, but it don't matter a hill 'o beans really.


People who like titles and honorifics (not really honours in the sense of rating merit) can enjoy these, people who don't can ignore them.


People who want to enjoy the 'royal wedding' (or the royal anything) should surely be left to do so - nobody is obliged to watch it or care for it. We aren't being forced onto the streets to praise our masters (unlike so many societies elsewhere). Be grateful for that.

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