Why is the tax payer paying £2M for Eugenie's wedding?

[lelepond]

Why does this irrelevant individual (who is not a working royal therefore carries out no royal functions) feel it necessary to have such an extravagant wedding which necessitates a security bill of £2 million? I find it totally unacceptable given that so many of our public services are struggling. AIBU to ask why more people aren't outraged? Who even is she? What is her purpose?

All the posters saying it is not her fault the family she was born in to? Seriously, by accident of birth with privilege beyond belief. She and all royals can be as thick as shit and corrupt as fuck but still ask the public to pay for it? Seriously?

I wouldn't be surprised if it's Eugenie's parents who are insisting on this huge show (in addition to the carriage ride, there'll apparently be 800 guests and a massive reception with a 'funfair theme') rather than her. But she's not a young girl, she's a woman approaching 30 and if she can't stand up to her parents now then she never will. Then again, judging by that Vogue interview, she and her sister live in their little bubble of privilege and are completely oblivious to why they sometimes get bad press.

The world would carry on turning without the royals. We really don’t need them, a huge burden and an unnecessary expense. It’s outrageous how much they cost whilst everything else is cut back.

I can’t understand why she would want the carriage ride - there will be a huge comparison made in the press. Obviously the crowds watching will be considerably less than there were for Harry’s wedding

I'm sorry but average-looking and badly-dressed princess marrying tequila ambassador (what?) is hardly going to draw the same crowds as St Diana's little boy marrying glamorous Hollywood actress, is it?

In these awful times where practically everything is being cut to the bone, including huge cuts to the police

Maybe this is evidence that these cuts aren't needed?

Why is she just not refused this ride, and told it would put too much strain on the police. I cant understand why she’s allowed to dictate what the police do. She should be told in simple terms to basically get to fuck.

The point is that the security is there to prevent people being killed or injured, regardless of why it's needed.

No, the point is that there would be less likelihood of people being killed or injured if it was a smaller-scale, less public wedding.

This has the potential to go wrong and be very embarrassing for the Yorks but they're so thickskinned they don't realise.

More special than who though? Is the level of security only for the one in the big white dress?

It's irresponsible of her to have such a high-profile public wedding. Would the barman and "princess" still invite all those people if they were the ones picking up the bill? We need to review the role of royals (especially minor ones) in general. Scroungers.

Who are they scrounging off, telepond?

Just because you don’t give a crap about the wedding doesn’t mean none of should care!

kary I think Brooksbank might have links to pre Hanoverian royalty if it's the family I'm thinking of.

Who are they scrounging off, telepond?

The taxpayer of course, who the hell else. Just like they always have.

Zara Phillips married and international rugby star. No fuss.

Eugenie marries a bar owner, tremendous fuss.

But then just look at the parents. Anne is wearing coats from 30 years ago, Andrew is demanding a helicopter every 33 seconds. I honestly think Andrew wishes he had been around in about 1880 in Tsarist Russia. He would have been in his element. 17 serfs to attend to my every whim you say! Perfect. He is the type of Royal that makes people dream of a Republic. We don't need any of these people. Seriously, it's 2018, I just don't get how anyone can see them as anything but irrelevant and tbh, a little bit cringeworthy at this point.

Also I honestly want to know why we are all not laughing in the face of MM the 'humanitarian' who wore a £200000 dress. I get we didn't pay for it, but I actually think that was obscene.

The only members of the Royal family who are funded by the tax payer are the Queen, Philip, Charles, William and Harry. The Queen maintains the others from her considerable personal fortune. If they're scrounging off anyone it's Granny and I can't see how that's any of our business.

scrounger definition: someone who tries to get things, especially money or food, by asking for them instead of buying them or working for them:

And your point is?

With 18 so-called working royals, each royal costs an average of £18.5m a year. This includes the likes of Princess Alexandra and the Duchess of Kent, who most people wouldn't recognise and haven't heard of. Although not officially counted as working royals Prince Andrew's daughters Eugenie and Beatrice also bill the taxpayer for travel, accommodation and security.

Those figures come from a republican website and are about as reliable as if they were in the Morning Star.

If you mean Republic's report, they actually provide evidence for their figures.

What about their abuse of public money/tax avoidance as revealed in the Paradise Papers?