Reply #15: I don't know, to my mind the Royal Wedding is the only [View All]

reason to keep it, actually. Think about it, those royal weddings (divorces, affairs, funerals, etc.)
is the single rational raison d'etre for the modern constitutional monarchy. They generate a lot of
on-air and in-press coverage which results in large amount of commercial advertising beneficial to
mass media and advertisers (and one may even argue the public at large). That's all the royals really are -
the coverage-generating celebrities. They were Paris Hilton before there was Paris Hilton. Without those
weddings and funerals they are not serving any useful purpose and would definitely need to be rid of.
So staging a good and profitable wedding is the only means of self-preservation for the monarchy.