Letter: Wedding bliss

Your correspondents (18 November) seem to inhabit a rather gloomy world of cynicism. The happy young couple have announced their hopeful, optimistic news. We must all wish them the very happiest future.

Since both are Scottish university graduates, we should encourage them to hold their wedding ceremony in the St Andrews University chapel in the company of their nearest and dearest with an intimate, family occasion.

A more formal, "official", occasion could then be held in London, with all the ceremony, in a large venue for the vast, rather impersonal and relatively cold, demands of state.

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It could be accompanied with all the pomp and splendour associated with royal weddings in the past, but which in recent times have not always been followed by happy outcomes. We should all hope for better for the future of our monarchy. Perhaps Scotland can help in this way.

(Dr) Charles Wardrop

Viewlands Road West

Perth

I was interested to read the letters and online comments anent the forthcoming distraction of a royal wedding.

I agree that this enormous publicity stunt will be at disproportionate cost to the taxpayers. If William Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (or "Windsor" if he prefers) wants to get married, there should be no impediment to it, but it's just a pity he hasn't got a private income.

Or perhaps I'm talking out of turn and his RAF salary will let him hire the Abbey for the day.

Incidentally, "William Wales" is incorrect; "Wales" is part of his old man's job description.

Barry Lees

Denholm Street

Greenock

Scenes of jubilation in London, dancing in the streets of the Home Counties, tearful presenters on Radio 4 - surely it must be the second coming of Christ, or another Moses descending from Box Hill with a further ten commandments on his laptop?

No, don't panic: it's only a member of that obscure Anglo-German family going into his breeding phase. Hip hip hooray, I suppose. Roll on the Republic.

David Fiddimore

Calton Road

Edinburgh