Yes I thought that too, he looked like maybe he isn't very well, seemed a bit doddery to my eyes!

This is her off to the wedding, looks like something from Oxfam.

Well, I was referring to the fact that Jacky said "looks as if Kate will go the same way. "

Any pics of that? Or justification for that comment?

Letizia looks slim, so in real life she probably does look a tad skinny. Shame that women in their position couldn't kick a bit at the traces and be a bit more normal.

I love the way the ardent anti royalist roll out the whole "they cost us a fortune" and "they do absolutely nothing for the country"... and that we should have an electable president instead. Yeah, millions of tourists will FLOCK to the UK to see President Blair and his thieving wife in their Presidential Palace in Bristol, or all come to stare at president Brown the kiddie fidler in hid Mid Terraced home in Scotland.... They make no laws, rule no subjects, command no power, none more than their money allows, and if we are going to get rid of them on the grounds that they are rich then we are going down a sticky road that countries like China, Russia and Cuba went down, and look how that turned out for the "common" folk eh?

I am not into monarchies but as I would with any young couple I wish them all the very best for a long and happy marriage, particularly considering the media circus that they will have to endure.

Graham

It is not going to be a picnic, especially for Kate, and I also wish them all the best.

I hope and think that it will be a better match than previous marriages in the Windsor family.

Agree, I'm no big monarchist, I've not seen a minute of the build up, and I won't be watching anything today, however when I see the alternatives to the Royal Family, I'm not impressed, I'll stick with what we've got. And compared with some other countries, they are cheap, I'm more than happy to pay my share, about 60p per person per year, una ganga!

I think almost everyone except the most anti-royals would agree with that sentiment.

Anyway I have got my union jack gayumbos on today, at the insistance of the missus, in honour of the wedding.

At times I don't like living in an expat area and make a point of frequenting Spanish places to remind me that I am living in Spain, but not today. The whole place is buzzing with excitement and there are parties everywhere. And people are dressing up, I saw a woman on her way to a wedding dinner where a prize will be awarded for the best hat.

The coverage on TV is wall to wall, and it doesn't matter which country's television you're watching. I can't remember any other occasion when I've seen so many happy faces on TV.

But this is a discussion forum and I'm aware that some people disagree with all this happiness they say they're not going to watch.

It reinforces my belief that some people think they're alive because they walk about with a beating heart and display all the other functions of life. But there's one that's missing they don't know about. It's called soul.

Agree 100% ,and as agoreira says theres no better alternative not that I`d want one , I wish them the best of luck and think William is much more a "peoples person" than his father and will make a better king.

What, the pro royal argument is that there are worse?

That's not an argument, that's the sound of desperation.

Not what I mean, I believe everything else is worse .

I dont think it is desperation, it is put forward as to what would be in place of the royals.

Anyway we are having friends over, for a true British fest, eating embutidos to stat,cous cous (not made by the missus, than God) and then tiramisu

Can I just come for the food? No, agree, not desperation, it's pointless dumping something unless you have something better to replace it with. Spain has tried it a few times, and each time it restored the monarchy.

I always have a look at Bloomberg TV in the mornings, see how the business world is doing, and it was on there. Flick back down to BBC, passing CNN and loads more foreign stations, they all had it. Just looked at the ABC site, as I do, and it's full of it!
http://www.abc.es/