Glad you appreciated the good vibes of it, Wayzim.
There's a section of British society who like to piss all over anyone else's good time - I'm not referring to HPOTD members, btw, rather those who are so sickeningly opposed to it that they believe (in their small political circle jerk where everybody thinks the exact same thing) they have a right to force their opinion on others, spoil a good time, and see themselves as the "majority" ... when they're anything but.
2 billion viewers world wide. An estimated boost to the UK economy of £2billion (putting any public cost far into the shade), and a chance for millions of Brits to enjoy themselves and share something across the nation which brings a smile to their faces as they watch a young couple tie the knot - for the best in people to be brought out collectively as a unifying experience.
There's always going to be cynics, and there's always going to be people who aren't fussed - and while I've personally avoided a lot of talk of it (I almost always avoid TV News as it is, in any form in any country, utterly shit 99% of the time, and I rarely read newspapers), I watched the whole ceremony as well as stuff before and after it, and I actually quite enjoyed it - not for the same things some people enjoyed it for (like dresses and the fairy tale wedding stuff - although I can appreciate the niceness of that) - no, the military precision and organisation of the entire event really impressed me (plus Kate Middleton is, let's be honest, well fit - same goes for her sister  ) ... and it really displays the sense of long-standing history and tradition that we in the UK, and as a country, possess that few other countries have (particularly America, which is essentially a very new country - no doubt the cause of some of the fascination you guys have been experiencing across the pond).
I do find it fascinating how there are some people, who claim they "couldn't care less" about the wedding, haven't shut up moaning about it - again I'm referring widely to the most vocal of whingers in the UK - people who were most certainly outnumbered greatly today. Indeed there was a poll recently boiling down to if you were in favour or against the Royal Family - and more than 70% were in favour. Now sure, it's just some little poll, but it illustrates a point (and if the numbers had been reversed, the frothy mouthed minority would claim it as a victorious fact) ... indeed it's also funny how 'folk I've talked to' equals 'everybody in the country' ... an equation that has been asserted across a wide spectrum of issues in the past (and, no doubt, future), but it isn't exactly representative.
A Presidency would cost the UK far more than the Royal Family, who are financially profitable (especially with this wedding to the estimated tune of £2billion), who look after great swathes of land, who employ many people, who represent us on the international stage, and who bring in a shitload of tourism to our country.
It's not the fault of the Royal Family that TV news has - as it always does with everything (be it a big do like this, or some huge disaster) - obsessed over every minute detail for the past however long, particularly this week ... and if you don't like it, you're not forced to watch it. I absolutely fucking cannot stand football, so when it's the bloody World Cup, or that Euro thing, I avoid it like the plague due to my distaste for it - but at the same time I appreciate that many people fucking love it. So for the duration I just avoid anything to do with it that comes my way, and then conversely something will come along that I'm interested in that some won't be.
Some people are absolutely barmy for the Royals and all that, and well, if they're wildly into it - so be it - I mean shit, we obsess about the minutiae of films about rotting corpses that walk the earth, I think we should allow some leeway, you know?  Then there's a vocal minority (who strangely believe they're a majority, like all vocal, frothy-mouthed minority fringe elements) who are so disgusted by it all, who I think should "calm down, dear". 
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