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To want to go to Windsor when Prince Harry gets married?

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Royalcoronation · 08/01/2018 12:54

Whenever we see news coverage of events like this there are huge crowds outside the venue. I'm wondering if being part of that crowd is an easy thing to do?

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Battleax · 09/01/2018 06:54

Christ this is embarrassing. They wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.

To observe that the DoE is entertaining? I think he is. At least, he's the most entertaining element of the whole overpriced soap opera at the moment. Not always in a good way, but still, since we're forced to have them...

StellaTins · 09/01/2018 07:34

Fuxache What a bunch of mardy cunts on this thread. I wouldn't go myself but wouldn't be mean and call people who wanted to pathetic.

Go if you want OP, get there early, take a picnic and have a great time.

DrMarthaJones · 09/01/2018 08:18

yeah how dare we answer the question asked with our actual opinions. Definitely makes us "mardy cunts" doesn't it?

twat.

Battleax · 09/01/2018 08:57

I'm afraid every time I turn on the news and see a crowd of Union Jack painted people standing in the rain, grinning and waving flags at the (vastly over privileged) royals (or closed hospital doors for two days!) "pathetic" is the word that flashes through my head. It's obviously a popular assessment.

usualGubbins · 09/01/2018 10:35

OP how are you planning to get from Heathrow to Windsor? Are you driving, in which case there will be nowhere to park -unless you want to pay a lot of money for my work parking space-

The trains will be rammed and it's not the easiest of journeys with at least a couple of changes and buses... well I wouldn't even think of catching a bus round here! You could get a cab possibly but there'll be no change at all out of £100, particularly if it's a black cab.

Steakandchips3 · 09/01/2018 10:49

I think it's pathetic too. Why would you want to see them unless you know them? They wouldn't want to come to your wedding!

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Royalcoronation · 09/01/2018 10:50

usual we get the 81 bus from bath road to slough and then a train to Windsor. It's a few minutes on the train so if it's rammed I'm not too fussed. We have done the journey loads of times and never had a problem. One bus and one train.

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Royalcoronation · 09/01/2018 10:51

think it's pathetic too. Why would you want to see them unless you know them?

I have said a few times, I don't care about seeing them. The atmosphere of the crowd is what's drawing me towards it.

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Steakandchips3 · 09/01/2018 10:53

Your username suggests otherwise. If crowds are your thing, go to a music festival instead

Battleax · 09/01/2018 10:54

You can just go and stand outside a football ground at the winning end as it empties if you're only interested in a happy crowd.

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Royalcoronation · 09/01/2018 10:56

Your username suggests otherwise

I didn't even think about he name change at the time but i was thinking about the royal wedding and watching Corrie

If crowds are your thing, go to a music festival instead

Completely different situation, but if anyone knows of something on near London over that weekend I am welcome to suggestions

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Bimbler · 09/01/2018 10:57

To want to do this is so foreign to me. Just like battle re-enactments, or swingers parties, or thinking Ed Sheeran is a good musician.

Not for me, but if other people get a bit of a thrill out of it so what? I think it’s odd, but not pathetic.

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Royalcoronation · 09/01/2018 10:59

You can just go and stand outside a football ground at the winning end as it empties if you're only interested in a happy crowd.

This is a genius idea, we can hang out for the FA cup final on the Saturday, a bit of crowd practice

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Trytrytry2018 · 09/01/2018 10:59

Oh god no! I hate the Royal family. They are the biggest benefit scroungers ever. Get rid of them.

Battleax · 09/01/2018 11:00

The thought of travelling anywhere to deliberately seek out a crowd is making me feel a bit faint, TBH

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 09/01/2018 11:02

And if they're getting married in St Georges Chapel, there won't be anything to see except arrival of guests who are not staying in the castle. So the event will most likely attract the really fanatical followers, who'll probably camp out an unbelievably long time in advance.

I agree.

lubeybooby · 09/01/2018 11:02

I know it's terribly unfashionable to like the royals and to be remotely interested in any celebrities or royal but I can't help it. I love them. I would love to go and do my bit to wish them well... I might try as I've never done anything like that before.

juliesaway · 09/01/2018 11:05

I think it’s ridiculous to camp out overnight but if you lived near you could pop down near the time and try and get near to soak up the atmosphere. I lived in London in 2011 and when it was William’s wedding rode my bike into town half way through the service, and went into one of the pubs in Westminster near the abbey. Guests leaving the service afterwards were stopping at the pubs in all their finery for a beer on the way to the palace, orders of service in hand, fresh out of the Abbey. It was almost like being a guest at the wedding ( appreciate many will see this as a rather sad anecdote but it was quite fun to feel just a small part of it). Not sure if the same will apply in Windsor as the service is inside the castle complex I think so perhaps less chance to hob nob with friends of the Royals, if not the Royals themselves!

Sweetpea55 · 09/01/2018 11:05

I asked about the toilet thing out of concern for you.. It's something that would genuinely bother me having a bit of trouble that way. No need for a sarcastic reply.

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Royalcoronation · 09/01/2018 11:08

I asked about the toilet thing out of concern for you.. It's something that would genuinely bother me having a bit of trouble that way. No need for a sarcastic reply.

You asked how i would manage because most places are for patrons only. I pointed out I could be a patron. I don't have concerns about going to the toilet so I don't se why you get the need to take concern on my behalf?
If i had bother with toilets and beingbout and about I wouldn't consider this in the first place.

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T00much · 09/01/2018 11:15

Personally, I would rather shit in my hands and clap
😂

I don't get:-

the wanting to be in a massive crowd
the travel
the interest in someone who you don't know's wedding
the royal family

Helendee · 09/01/2018 11:16

OP definitely go if you want to, you don't need to justify yourself to anyone. Just go, enjoy the day and sod what anyone else thinks.
I would go too if I lived nearer.

DreamyMcDreamy · 09/01/2018 12:18

There really are some seriously miserable people out there.
Is it all because you're hiding behind a keyboard that you feel you can be so nasty?
Not really my thing either hanging round waiting for hours for a glimpse, but I can totally see why you'd want to go,wave flags and soak up the happy atmosphere.
I know who'd I'd rather know in RL, and it's definitely you who sounds positive and lovely, and not a fun sponge energy drain (Dementor's personified)
Go, and enjoy.

Battleax · 09/01/2018 12:21

Oh look the thread police have arrived 🙄

DrMarthaJones · 09/01/2018 12:25

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