To wonder why a princess needs a wedding gift registry?

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When you've got more money than you know what to do with, is it a bit grabby to register with John Lewis (or wherever it is, probably not John Lewis!) for gifts?
www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/10/princess-eugenie-wedding-schedule

wow 850 people. that is a lot.

So she doesn’t end up with 850 toasters?

Because people will want to buy gifts and it’s patently absurd to pretend otherwise.

If you're that privileged, and your parents have reputations for being grabby, then surely asking for charity donations (like William and Kate and Harry and Meghan did) is the way to go?

Can’t have it both ways - she’s criticised for not being an important enough royal to justify any public interest in her wedding but then also expected to behave like the 2nd in line to the throne. she literally can’t win and I am just so bored of the endless self-righteous criticism when it literally doesn’t hurt anyone if she has a flipping wedding list.

It's precisely because her parents are grabby that she is doing this, she doesn't know any better. She is not known for her charity works like her cousins and extended family are and neither are her parents. It's the way she's been brought up, to focus on the material side of life and not think that she should give something back to society because of her enormously privileged life. She might surprise us all by donating her gift list to the local women's refuge but I doubt it.

Oh my god where are you getting your information?

I’m a republican so I don’t love being forced into defending them but she’s involved in TONS of charities including the teenage cancer trust.

If you’re going to condemn someone as grabby and entitled at least take 30 seconds to google to make sure you aren’t simply spouting tripe.

I know she's involved with a lot of charities, which is why I find the decision to not go for the "instead of gifts, please donate to X charity" a little odd.

When I got married I did both - had a wedding registry, and made a substantial donation to a charity in lieu of favours. You don’t know what Eugenie has decided to do - but given that representatives from her supported charities will be at her wedding I would be very surprised if she wasn’t in some way supporting them.

Very bad taste. There’s been enormous public expenditure on this event. To then use it to for your own personal material gain on top is really taking the piss.

With any luck, she’ll gift the presents to charity herself. After all, if she says donations only, lots of people wouldn’t bother.