It's not so easy as that to avoid. Many years ago, one of my staff went on a day trip to France to avoid Chucky and Di's wedding along with thousands of others. She told me when she came back that she and her husband were about the only Brits in Boulogne not crowded round TV shops watching the ceremony in the window. We'll no doubt get saturation coverage in all the media, and tv transmission schedules will be disrupted for several months. I've got a backlog on Freeview+, a backlog of dvds to watch, not to mention large piles of unread books and magazines so I'm not too worried. I'm not a monarchist, though so long as they just get on with their lives and leave me to get on with mine I'm not too bothered, and I do have respect for Charles and Anne. As for the happy couple, I wish them all the best, after all, "there's nothing so royal as procreation".