Quote Originally Posted by goostewart View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Dug
I don't believe that old chestnut one bit.
Have you been to Buck Palace recently? There are crowds of them every day. The Merkins come for all that nonsense. You have to love it - we have found the ultimate theme park which cannot be recreated by them (despite their best efforts of buying London Bridge (and thinking it was Tower Bridge) and creating that horrible theme park). The Queen actually serves no perpose, other than ceremonial duties and income for UK. You gotta love that.
They come to see the palace, not the queen. If the lot of them (royal family) were to vanish overnight the tourists would still come to see the palaces etc.