Exactly what I was thinking :

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x29c6p ... rain_music

Around the 1.30 mark, just seen it described as the 'mullet-dress'

That's a perfect description. Business up front, party round the back. Erm...

Anyway. He'll catch his death sleeping with the windows open like that. I'd move my bed away from the window, if it were me.

There was even a Top Trumps set released. Presumably, 'playing the racist card with Phil' is actually a good idea

'Ability to offend just about anybody : 10!'

Allegedly, the wedding dress cost a quarter of a million. OK, as of about 1PM yesterday it was effectively priceless so it's a good investment but bloody hell.

Jon

I guess one could look at the average hotel occupancy for the same time last year and see if it was up or not

I did see one of the BBC walkabout reporters interviewing a couple of Australians who said they'd planned their holiday around being in London for the Royal Wedding. Undoubtedly it did attract some people but whether it was enough to make a significant difference, who knows.

I don't think hotel occupancy will cut it TBH - you 'd somehow have to differentiate between those who were foreign and those who were UK residents anyway and then account for their spending differently, as the 'nationals' would have been spending money in London rather than where they normally lived in the UK, so their net spend is lower. You'd be better off looking at pure immigration stats - they'd know how many more people came into the UK from abroad last week compared to the same in previous years.

Jon

That would also nicely show how many people left the country because of the wedding.

Most of them camped on the street anyway!

Not much to say really.

I watched the entire event, unexpectedly really, and enjoyed just about every minute. The enforced commentary by Huw was a little testing at times admittedly.

I thought William should have worn RAF dress suit, Kate looked stunning in that wedding dress and Harry and Pippa didn't put a foot wrong.

Got through a few tinnies and had a lovely time. Moan if you want but I thought it was a spectacular event.

Our Huw really doesn't know when to just shut up and let the pictures speak for themselves. It's like he's afraid to stop talking in case his brain seizes up. He's just not got the gravitas of your Dimbleby, that's for certain.

Ahhhhh Heather.....

I felt for him actually. The poor guy was obviously struggling to fill the gaps and on many occasions ended up sounding, shall we say, a little silly. I don't blame him for one minute. He would probably been perfectly happy to comment as and when comment was needed while we watched the pictures but I'm sure he was being told to speak in that tiny ear piece he was wearing.

As my dear wife once said to her then headmaster.... "Sometimes less is more"

This is the contention of @Dimblebot on Twitter who believes that "Welshman" is probably a product of "Sinclair".

Bio-Dimbeby went on a successful mission to locate the Queen Mother's secret gin store on the day of The Wedding.