Katie Grant's column about the effect of the Royal Wedding
only paid lip service to the other side of the argument about it being
beneficial to the economy. While it is
all very well looking at the for and against parties, it is more telling
looking at the figures from neutral bodies like the UN World Tourist
Organisation. Presently and for the past
two years the countries that have lead us in terms of tourist numbers and
earnings are all republics. Germany earns
nearly the same as us in terms of tourism and yet they have not had a monarchy
for 100 years. With all of this talk of
earning at the behest of how tourists allegedly want us to be governed perhaps
Katie Grant would have been better asking; how much is our dignity worth?
Regards
Zachary Barker
Bristol
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