sorry but royal farce waste of £££ , oh did i say i dont give a flying **** about them . gov cutting everything and they spent millions on this
It is quite trivial to criticism them - they're old fashioned and totally go against any form of meritocracy. Having said that they're essentially just ceremonial anyway, we can use them as ambassadors for trade/business and they draw in a lot of tourists to London.
Overall we profit a lot more from having them - tourism alone more than pays for them tbh... They cost us about a quid a year - for 2 million brits who had an awesome day out watching the royal wedding I'd say that's quite good value - to have the same euphoric experience in a big crowd at a big event you'd be talking about paying more like £50 for a concert or day pass to a festival, or going to see a football match - yet we've paid on average £1 each for a bunch of ponces to put on uniforms and get in coaches and entertain us for a day - I can't really fault that tbh...
Could say a similar thing about the Olympics tbh... lots of tax payers money being wasted so some people can run around a track - though we'd hope that the net effect on the economy will be +ve. The Olympics costs more and is more of a gamble than the royal family - with the Royal we *know* there will be a whole bunch of Americans and Japs over in London every summer, taking pics infront of the palace, staying in expensive hotels and basically bunging a load of $$$ into our economy.