30th anniversary of Royal Wedding goes unnoticed...

[Pavilionaire]

I see today is the 30th anniversary of the biggest Royal Wedding in the last 50 years but no mention on NSC, or my Facebook, and not much in the media. If Pippa Middleton went sunbathing in a bikini she'd get more column inches.

Is this evidence of the William and Kate marriage moving things on for the Royal Family, or that Charles has managed to tough it out and come out the other side?

 

[ali jenkins]

There is a programe on Ch4 tonight (I think) about it.

 

[hart's shirt]

If Pippa Middleton went sunbathing in a bikini she'd get more column inches.

I'm sure she'd get plenty of inches either way.

 

[Shooting Star]

FFS who cares about a wedding from a family who live off of taxpayers money whilst being entirely unelected and born into privilege, whilst being entirely out of touch with the current economic climate. Whilst every hard working family in Britain scales and cuts back, they merely 'generously' freeze their income. How big of them.

I'm not surprised not many people give a toss considering what's just happened in Norway and how the economy is in ruins.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Why should we remember it - it was a complete sham as we all now know. He already had Camilla and she was a serial adulterer.

 

[HovaGirl]

FFS who cares about a wedding from a family who live off of taxpayers money whilst being entirely unelected and born into privilege, whilst being entirely out of touch with the current economic climate. Whilst every hard working family in Britain scales and cuts back, they merely 'generously' freeze their income. How big of them.

I'm not surprised not many people give a toss considering what's just happened in Norway and how the economy is in ruins.

No, the British royal family does not live off taxpayers' money.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

30th anniversary - is that supposed to be significant? I don't remember us talking about the 29th anniversary of it either

 

[Pavilionaire]

Of course every 10 years is a significant anniversary, all the more so that this anniversary is in the same year as the William / Kate and Zara / Tindall weddings.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

No, the British royal family does not live off taxpayers' money.

Really ? Where does the £6m a year that the queen gets from the state come from ?

 

[ROSM]

So it would have been their pearl wedding.

I wonder who would have given her a pearl necklace to celebrate?

 

[Wozza]

Charles and Diana’s 30th Anniversary: a look back - Yahoo! Lifestyle UK

 

[Curly5194]

Really ? Where does the £6m a year that the queen gets from the state come from ?

She's got a part time job down the local chippy on a Friday and Saturday night. Just ask for Queeny and she'll give you extra curry sauce on your chips!

 

[catfish]

I just wish the whole lot of them would sod off and find someone else to sponge off.

 

[HovaGirl]

30th anniversary - is that supposed to be significant? I don't remember us talking about the 29th anniversary of it either

Besides, they divorced, and one of them is dead, anyway.

 

[HovaGirl]

Really ? Where does the £6m a year that the queen gets from the state come from ?

From the Civil List, not from taxpayers. The income from the Royal Estates in 2006-2007, for example, was £200 million, of which The Queen gets around £7 million. Out of this, 70% pays for her staff. It also pays for garden parties, official receptions and entertaining during state visits.

In 1760, George III did a swapsie. In return for the Crown Lands being administered by the Government, the monarch would get a portion of the estates' income (the Queen's £7m) and the surplus income would go to The State.

So, rather than The Queen getting about £7million a year out of the taxpayer, she gives the taxpayer about £193 million a year. On top of that, she now pays income tax, just like everybody else.

 

[Storer 68]

Really ? Where does the £6m a year that the queen gets from the state come from ?

Parliament, so its with the people's approval!

 

[JBizzle]

I just wish the whole lot of them would sod off and find someone else to sponge off.

Yeah, and take the millions of pounds of tourism income they generate with them too... That'll teach them.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

From the Civil List, not from taxpayers. The income from the Royal Estates in 2006-2007, for example, was £200 million, of which The Queen gets around £7 million. Out of this, 70% pays for her staff. It also pays for garden parties, official receptions and entertaining during state visits.

In 1760, George III did a swapsie. In return for the Crown Lands being administered by the Government, the monarch would get a portion of the estates' income (the Queen's £7m) and the surplus income would go to The State.

So, rather than The Queen getting about £7million a year out of the taxpayer, she gives the taxpayer about £193 million a year. On top of that, she now pays income tax, just like everybody else.

OK ... so it's inherited wealth, created by land stolen from our ancestors.

 

[Shooting Star]

Why can't we directly elect our Head of State, instead of someone being born into it? We are all born equal, except for those in the Royal family, it seems. Why can our kids aspire to become anything in this country, except for Head of State? Utterly ridiculous. Oh, and why does the Royal family have to cost £180 million, whereas in a republic like Germany, the Presidency costs around £26 mil?

The tourism theory is a myth as well. Do you honestly think people visit Britain, and in particular London, because of the Royal family? Do you visit Spain because of their monarchy? The only real event to back up that theory is a Royal wedding, but as we've seen in the past week, that's had a negative effect on the economy too.

 

[HovaGirl]

OK ... so it's inherited wealth, created by land stolen from our ancestors.

More than a thousand years ago. But the world was different, then. It was more of a chess game of kings and pawns and you can't use modern eyes to judge things which happened 1,000 years ago.