How many tourists actually get a glimpse of the Royals
Apart from Princess Di under the dryer, the only glimpse I ever got of on was on 'Empire Day' at school when we were all hauled out and lined up along the the railins of Speke Secondary Modern in the pissing rain because the Queen Mother was passing on her way to open something
The car sped past doing 40 - we didn't see her and I'm damned if she saw us
It's utter bullshit that people come to Britain because of Rayaly - if they got withing half a mile from one they'd be mown down by an armed copper.
They may come to see the Stately Homes (when they'ere allowed in them) or the artifacts of past royalty, but they would see those anyway
Now if only they opened up the Guildhall and executed a Royal (as they did Chas One).....
I think I'd take a trip back to London to see that one!!
Or maybe if they reopened the Imperial War Museum as Moorfields Asylum as an asylum and allowed the visitors to come up and view Boris Johnson or William Reece Mogg on Sunday afternoons..... a real fillip for the tourist industry
Jim Carroll