Shimrod, you may be right about British royal pageantry being a waste of money and an expression of class superiority. Maybe you'd be better off with American pageantry, like the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall in New York. I saw them and the Macy's Christmas parade on Thanksgiving in 2000 - a very nice dose of pageantry, and no class conflict involved whatsoever.
But hey, pageantry is fun....tacky, perhaps, but fun.

-Joe-