Not that I have more than the mildest iota on interest nor any brief to defend the Saxon ascendancy but it was promulgated pretty damn quickly after the engagement announcement that the families would be footing the bill for the junketing themselves. So thay could do what they damn well liked. Doesn't bother me. Puts a stop to any whingeing that "we're paying for it" anyway which is just as well as they seem well able to afford an Aston Martin DB5, lots of trees and designer frocks by the skipload.

Very naff choice of music (from what I heard) except for that Welsh rugby song at the beginning

"any fule know"is from the Molesworth books.