Daleks at the Royal Wedding, now that would be good!.

 

To serve tea? Definitely!:rolleyes:

They'd also make very good ushers.:P

To serve tea? Definitely!:rolleyes:

They'd also make very good ushers.:P

I don't think they would get taken very seriously :p.

I don't think they would get taken very seriously :p.

 

They would if they threatened to exterminate the guests if they didn't comply! :P

Millions of Britons will miss the Royal Wedding day fun as thousands of employers will not be giving workers a paid day off

 

 

By Becky Barrow

Last updated at 10:37 AM on 28th April 2011

 

 

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Millions of Britons will have to work tomorrow for no extra money – whether or not they want to celebrate the Royal Wedding.

More than a tenth of employers say they will not be giving their workers a paid day off, according to a poll by the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals.

Bosses were yesterday accused of using a little-known rule to wriggle out of extra bank holiday payments.

 

Kate Middleton arrives at Westminster Abbey with Prince Harry for today's rehearsal

 

 

 

Best Man: Prince Harry will be at his brother's side during the ceremony and in charge of the wedding rings

 

 

 

'KNOCKED OFF MY FEET': ELLIE'S INVITE TO PERFORM AT PALACE

 

 

William and Kate have asked 24-year-old singer Ellie Goulding (right) to perform at their evening wedding reception.

She was ‘knocked off her feet’ to receive a personal invitation from the couple to entertain at the Buckingham Palace after-dinner party.

 

Her version of Elton John’s Your Song was chosen for the John Lewis store chain’s Christmas advertising campaign.

 

She is expected to sing it at the party for 300 of Kate and William’s friends and family.

 

 

Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said: ‘A significant minority of tight-fisted companies have decided to ignore the national mood.

‘They are insisting on keeping staff chained to their desks while everyone else is enjoying the bank holiday.’

He warned that this risks ‘demoralising’ their workforce and ‘damaging their reputation’ among their customers.

However the wedding comes at a difficult time for many small businesses which are struggling to cope with the unprecedented string of bank holidays.

It follows hard on the heels of the long Easter weekend, with many entrepreneurs saying they simply cannot afford to lose another day’s business.

Employment law experts said workers are the victims of a ‘lottery’ which depends entirely upon the wording in their contract.

Some will enjoy an extra day’s holiday on full pay. Others will get a day off but not be paid. And the biggest losers will have to work, but not receive a penny more than normal.

 

A day of celebration: Union jacks line The Mall ahead of the Royal Wedding but not everyone will be able to watch the wedding as employers refuse to give workers a day off

 

 

 

It beats working: Some will be making the most of the extra bank holiday

 

At present, every full-time worker is entitled to a minimum 28 days' leave every year, but this can include bank holidays and public holidays.

In a normal year there are eight in England, including New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, two May bank holidays, August bank holiday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

 

 

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The confusion surrounds the fact that the Royal Wedding is an extra bank holiday, and many workers’ contracts dictate that they do not have to be given the time off.

For example, a contract might state: ‘You are entitled to 28 days’ holiday, including all bank and public holidays.’ In this case, the worker would be entitled to be off tomorrow.

 

Equally the contract might say: ‘You are entitled to 28 days’ holiday, including eight bank and public holidays’.

This would not confer the right to be off tomorrow because it is a ninth bank holiday.

All 163 Debenhams stores will be open tomorrow, but staff will not receive extra pay. They will be given a day off at another time to compensate them.

Tesco, the country’s biggest private-sector employer, said staff who work tomorrow will be given extra money of up to three times their normal salary.

 

Dedicated: Royal watchers camp outside Westminster Abbey to secure a prime viewing position across from the Abbey on the day a tenth of employers will not pay workers for their Bank Holiday day off

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381339/Royal-Wedding-bank-holiday-Millions-Britons-given-paid-day-off.html#ixzz1KoRDir6y

 

How sad can you get?:dozey:

They certainly don't look like they're enjoying it, either!

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We are not amused! German magazine condemns 'overhyped' Royal Wedding

 

 

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Last updated at 4:25 PM on 28th April 2011

 

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Germany's top news magazine has published a withering condemnation of the marriage tomorrow of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

 

Der Spiegel posted the piece on its website calling the impending nuptials 'a joke, a hopelessly overhyped celebration of an absurdly undemocratic system'.

 

The magazine's London correspondent, Marco Evers, said he pities the bride for her imminent loss of freedom, and 'wonders why this eccentric nation continues to worship the Windsors'.

 

 

A royal carriage leaves Westminster Abbey during a rehearsal for the Royal Wedding yesterday. German magazine Der Spiegel has called the impending nuptials 'a joke'

 

He condemns it as a 'sad spectacle' and one that the country, mired in economic hard times, can ill afford.

 

Germany, which lost its own royal family when Kaiser Wilhelm II went into exile after starting and losing the First World War, is as excited as other nations around the world about the forthcoming extravaganza.

 

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• The Order of Service in full: See the official souvenir guide for the Royal Wedding of the century here
  
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• Millions of will miss the Royal Wedding day fun as thousands of employers will not be giving workers a paid day off
  
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Sixteen multiplex cinemas in Germany are staging live screenings of the ceremony, top hotels are organising 'William and Kate' afternoon teas and there is even a royal honeymoon travel package on offer on a German North Sea island.

But Herr Evers doesn't see it that way. His is a rant against all things royal.

The magazine's London correspondent, Marco Evers, said he pities Kate, pictured with Prince William, for her imminent loss of freedom

 

'It's wrong if the head of state of a country can only come from one family. It's wrong to furnish this clan with palaces, land and all manner of grants to spare its members the indignity of having to earn their keep and enable them to live in luxury.

 

'It is wrong to address the Windsors and, from next Friday the delightful Kate Middleton as well, as Your Royal Highness or even Your Majesty. It is wrong to see them as anything other than people made of flesh and blood, like you and I.

 

'Cherie Blair, the difficult wife of the former Prime Minister Tony, once refused to curtsey in front of the old Mrs Elizabeth Windsor, but the majority of Britons enjoy doing that, and much more, for Queen and country. The Windsors are Europe's most expensive royal family, but the people go on paying, without grumbling, at least as long as Queen Elizabeth remains alive.

 

'British soldiers are fighting for democracy in Afghanistan and Libya, and they fought for it in Iraq. But at home, they defend the absurdly undemocratic idea that nobody but a Windsor can be head of state. As soon as Elizabeth, 85, shuffles off her mortal coil, her son Charles, 62, already worn down by his long wait for the accession, will take the throne, even though opinion polls show the majority of Britons don't want the brooding, esoteric prince to become king.

 

'The pomp and ceremony surrounding the marriage of William and Kate is the latest expression of British eccentricity - but a large part of the world appears to be succumbing to it as well.

 

'Yes, the carriages of gold and velvet look pretty, the bride's train will be a sight to behold and Westminster Abbey is quite a spectacular backdrop for the ceremony. But is it really worth all the fuss?'

 

 

Royal fans camped outside the Abbey this morning. The magazine articles questions 'why this eccentric nation continues to worship the Windsors'

 

 

This group of royal enthusiasts have been camping across the road from Westminster Abbey since late on Wednesday to get the best view of the couple on Friday. The impending wedding has been labelled a 'sad spectacle' in Der Spiegel

 

He admits that Germany's TV networks - ARD, ZDF, Sat.1, RTL, n-tv and N24 - 'will hardly be broadcasting anything else on Friday'.

 

But he added: 'Everyone is pretending that this spectacle is the most important and beautiful event on earth - but it is not.

 

'Britain is still mired in its worst economic crisis since World War II. Everyone should be rolling up their sleeves to haul the nation out of the doldrums. But the government declared the wedding day a public holiday, and schools, banks, offices and factories will be closed - just because the heir to the heir to the throne is getting married.

 

'The extra holiday may lead to increased turnover in the nation's pubs, but it will end up costing the economy billions.

 

 

Workers put up one of six English Field maples in the church for the big day. 'Westminster Abbey is quite a spectacular backdrop for the ceremony. But is it really worth all the fuss?' asks Der Spiegel

 

No royalist: Marco Evers has said it is wrong for a head of state to come from just one family

 

'In truth, the marriage of William and Kate is a sad spectacle. Two young people aren't getting wed in the way they would like but how the palace, protocol and granny demand it.

 

'William, 28, is accustomed to that because he was born into it. But for Kate, 29, Friday will mark the end of her freedom. For her parents, it will be a bit like the death of their daughter.

 

'She won't belong to them anymore - she will be elevated to some form of distant, aristocratic human being, forever unavailable for that impromptu dinner with Mum and Dad.

'Some friends and relatives will be present in Westminster Abbey, but most of the guests will be strangers, and some of them will be repulsive ones at that. King Mswati, the despot of the impoverished African nation of Swaziland who has 13 wives, will be flying in with his entourage of 50 people. Arab potentates have also been invited, some of whom are currently having pro-democracy demonstrators shot at in their streets. Who would want to get married in such company?

 

'Half the British cabinet is coming, along with opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband, who bears the grand official title "Leader of her Majesty's Loyal Opposition". Former conservative Prime Minister John Major will be present. But the last two Labour prime ministers, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, have not been invited.

 

'Is that their punishment for having supported the ban on fox hunting? Why should the autocratic Sultan of Brunei get invited and not the two previous leaders of a democratically elected British government?

 

 

Withering: The article on Der Spiegel's website

 

'The whole world is waiting to admire Kate's wedding dress. The designer will be inundated with work after this. But the wearer of the dress faces a future that shouldn't really be desirable for an intelligent woman in the 21st century.

 

'Kate will have only three tasks from now on: serving her husband, looking good and bearing children, preferably boys. Apart from that, all she has to do is shut up.

 

'It's like in the 1950s - only much worse because she will have to continue curtseying to the Queen and other higher-ranking members of the family she has married in to.

 

'The whole thing feels even worse than just an aberration of history. It's a joke.'

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381422/German-magazine-Der-Spiegel-condemns-overhyped-Royal-Wedding-joke.html#ixzz1KpfZ4sdR

The American media are loving this.

I'm sick of how much news coverage there has been this week about the wedding and all the other programs on.

The American media are loving this.

 

Definitely. So much so, they've even forgotten about Obama for a few days!:P

 

I'm sick of how much news coverage there has been this week about the wedding and all the other programs on.

 

You ain't seen nothin' yet - just wait till tomorrow!:rolleyes:

I wonder why the British royal family get so much attention in other countries. I mean they seem to be only royal family you ever hear about.

Has there been that many people outside Buckingham palace and Westminster at this time of night before? What crazy people.

The American media are loving this.

 

Yeah, and we don't even get a holiday out of it! I just want to see her dress.

Yeah, and we don't even get a holiday out of it! I just want to see her dress.

 

Where I come from my council was one of only about two or three councils in the UK who voted against having a holiday for the occasion!

:) Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ! Nice !!

I wonder why the British royal family get so much attention in other countries. I mean they seem to be only royal family you ever hear about.

 

It's all to do with Britain's place in history, all the pomp and ceremony and everything that's happened down the centuries. Richard III, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, the list is endless..............................

In most other countries they've either been disposed of or melted into the background somewhat.

 

Has there been that many people outside Buckingham palace and Westminster at this time of night before? What crazy people.

 

You said it.

 

Where I come from my council was one of only about two or three councils in the UK who voted against having a holiday for the occasion!

 

Bah, humbug!:dozey:

can't believe im watching this

I remember Diana and Charles' wedding.... I was about 5 years old I think. Its nice to see this wedding and know a bit of history this time around.... I think its such a momentous event! Not overhyped at all.... I mean, this is the future KING!!

 

....AND I love the Queen in yellow.. she looks adorable! (can I say that... is that disrespectful? :uhoh:)

I remember Diana and Charles' wedding.... I was about 5 years old I think. Its nice to see this wedding and know a bit of history this time around.... I think its such a momentous event! Not overhyped at all.... I mean, this is the future KING!!

 

....AND I love the Queen in yellow.. she looks adorable! (can I say that... is that disrespectful? :uhoh:)

 

Yes - off to the Tower with you!:P

 

Maybe she's wearing yellow because she's a secret Coldplay fan........................:rolleyes:

:lol: you can not see yellow without thinking about coldplay, i also think the same :P

I feel so emotional!! :cry: <--happy tears! :)

:lol: you can not see yellow without thinking about coldplay, i also think the same :P

 

Now all we need is a Coldplay song as one of the hymns..................... :rolleyes:

is it me or did Camilla look like she was gonna be sick during the first sing song??

oh Ian actually i just asked my friend if she was crying :wacky:

can't believe im watching this

 

+1

 

I feel so emotional!! :cry: <--happy tears! :)

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i'm also missing Princess Diana:bigcry: