What is it with this royal wedding nonsense?

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:46:19 -0400, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> said:

> agree... it probably won't be a huge event like the Royal Wedding!

What is it with that?  We got rid of that lot 235 years ago; why is
our media so fascinated by a marriage in the Mountbatten-Windsor
family?  Would they be giving the time away for free to the British
tourist board?  (Since that's effectively what it is, a UK tourism
promotion.)

-GAWollman