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Estimated total cost of the Royal Wedding:
$34 million
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Estimated total cost of Charles and Diana’s wedding (today’s
dollars):
$110 million
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Average cost of a U.S. wedding:
$27,000
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2010 property income for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles:
$50 million
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Cost of Kate’s wedding gown:
$434,000
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Average amount spent on a wedding gown in the U.S.:
$1,099
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Cost of two wedding cakes:
$80,000
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Average amount spent on a wedding cake in the U.S.:
$540
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Number of guests for the Queen’s luncheon reception:
600
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Number of guests for Prince Charles’s dinner reception:
300
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Cost per bottle of wine to be served at the luncheon reception:
$14 to $23
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Cost per bottle of champagne to be served before the dinner
reception:
$50
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Maximum number of bites the luncheon canapés are designed to be
eaten in:
2
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Amount spent by British soccer star Wayne Rooney on his 2008 wedding:
$8 million
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Amount spent by Bill and Hillary Clinton on Chelsea’s 2010 wedding:
$3 million to $5 million
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Cost of security for Will and Kate’s wedding (to be paid by
taxpayers):
$33 million
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Cost of security for Charles and Diana’s 1981 wedding (today’s
dollars):
$20 million
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Cost of security for the G20 conference in London in 2009:
$12 million
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Number of additional tourists expected in London for the Royal
Wedding:
600,000
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Amount those tourists are expected to spend on April 29:
$82 million
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Total tourism revenue expected from the Royal Wedding in 2011: $825
million+
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Cost of the “Royal Wedding Tour” at Westminster Abbey:
$26
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Cost of a life-sized cardboard cutout of William and Kate:
$58.50
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Cost of 2 William and Kate tea bags:
$8
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Winning auction bid for a pair of William and Kate Pez dispensers:
$13,360
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Global audience expected to watch the wedding on TV:
2 billion
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Additional audience expected to watch online and listen on radio:
400 million
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Estimated economic output lost by making the Royal Wedding a
national holiday:
$10 billion
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Estimated economic output lost by Britons taking extra days off
between Easter and the Royal Wedding and getting an 11-day holiday:
$50 billion
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U.K. unemployment rate:
7.8%
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Size of the U.K. budget deficit:
10% of GDP