The Security Bill for Princess Eugenie’s Wedding is £2 million

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And it is coming out of the public purse.

Excellent opinion piece by Libby Purves in today’s Times pointing out that this extravaganza will have an impact on real people and actual crime.

Does the silly Bridezilla really think her Wedding is as interesting as Meghan and Harry’s? If she wants to copy their Wedding, she needs to pay for it.

Bluevetvet As far as i know the royal family cost the taxpayer £100 million in security, (the link above breaks it down). An outrageous amount for one family. As weddings are comparatively rare i doubt they'd have any spare cash for them. If they have it's even more obscene, especially in these times of savage cuts to the police. It seems there's a bottomless pit of money where the royals are concerned but nothing much for the taxpaying general public.

The royal family are an anachronistic institution that has no place in a modern democracy. Whilst I don’t have any real issue with them as individuals (except Andrew and his vile taste in friends -Jeffrey Epstein ), I would hope that one day they become private citizens and the nonsense ends.

I usually defend the royals. These girls are very pleasant and I feel for them. It must be hard to grow up special and find there is no royal role for you. But they don't have anything to offer. They lack talent and a work ethic. The carriage ride was a selfish and extravagant decision in these difficult times. They've lost a lot of my sympathy. And they're truly dire at public speaking.

The £100 million will be a budgeted by government and is obviously accountable.
The only role now of the royals is to promote Britian. They have to buy British and be exemplery citizens. How much do other ambassador cost? Trump costs his country many times more, won't be in for more than a few years and may or may not bring the country down.

I want to see the figures on other organisations and their security paid by the taxpayer. The security bill around religious organisations is also absolutely huge but it's not considered prudent to bring that up. As an atheist , I don't think religion in belongs in the 21C either. but there you go, my tax funds their security.

Something for you to be outraged about, op.
So what? Do you really think you will notice any difference in your income because of this event?

Why call her Bridezilla, it's rude to say that about a perfectly normal young woman.

Better there is adequate security than a terrorist attack.

Windsor will do well out of the wedding, financially.

You're being mean - or jealous, or both.

You'll be telling us next they're cheap. Don't forget that figure is for security only. The true cost of the royal family is a hell of a lot more. As for promoting Britain, nonsense. Britain could be promoted far better rather than by an elite, privileged, unelected family of misfits than that lot are. They epitomise everything that is wrong in Britain. We shouldn't be comparing anything with Trump either. If we had a republic similar to Ireland it'd be far far cheaper. We wouldn't be supporting all the rest of the royal idlers either.

Better there is adequate security than a military attack

So by that reckoning we should be able to have the over stretched police available for anywhere we need security, even on a whim. (better than a terrorist attack) I've read of loads of long standing public events that bring joy to a lot of people that have had to be cancelled because the police haven't got the manpower to police it.

What BS to say "better there is adequate security than a terrorist attack"
No, better they were refused it because adequate secondary couldn't be given, then there'd be no need.It seems the royal family are exempt from any cutbacks that the rest of us have to abide by.

Really? How are you come up with a better system for promoting Britian than the Royals. Because being Royal is one of the few things you can't actually buy. Which makes it a unique job in world of multi billionaires

Anyone in power is elite and privileged by the nature of the task.. You're daft if you think anyone voted in isn't actually in for the money, power, career success, or other less altruistic motives. Already half of the top jobs go to people privately eduction despite only 7% of people go to private schools. Thunk that's going to change without a Monarchy because I don't.

Democracy is absolutely the best system for governance but the Royals don't actually govern. Their exsistance relies on Britain more than we need them which is ideal for figurehead leaders.

I entirely disagree that the royals are the right ones to promote Britain. We'd do far better without them. If we want to promote our country as a modern democracy and convey the best of what our exporters want to project we need something better than a family with a quaint history.

Pomp and pageantry, beefeaters, and soldiers in bearskins is not an image that we should want to project to the world.They're a symbol of unearned privilege and only occupy that position through centuries of incest, tyranny, murder, thievery and bloodshed.

Certainly people come here to see palaces and castles but they'd do that even if there wasn't a royal family. Versailles still has plenty of visitors even though France got rid of their kings nearly 300 years ago.

Better there is adequate security than a military attack

No, better there isn't an open top carriage ride that requires all this extra security in the first place.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1578941/Royals-low-on-must-list-for-visitors.html

Like i always say, tourists don't come to Britain because of the royal family. It's a myth they like to perpetuate to keep them relevant.

Yes, and I read somewhere that Windsor Castle isn't even the biggest tourist draw in Windsor - Legoland is!

Ha ! True dat SheStoops!

I do think Andrew should pay for this wedding actually. He's taking the piss because he knows it's almost impossible to argue. He's a knob and always has been.
However that doesn't really take away from the argument to keep a Monarchy .Him and Fergie do highlight all the things people slag the Monarchy off for; absing the wealth, not working hard enough, being embarrassing... So I guess I concede on this.

Well it appears, nudging by the lack of crowds , that all that security wasn’t needed