Interesting Facts

That hat - the "unique sculptural celebratory headpiece" (not my words) as worn by Princess Beatrice to last month's royal wedding, is for sale on eBay. (Now, one would think that people of taste would avoid this particular auction like the plague, but of course it takes all sorts, and one person has bid £75,000!)

According to internet firms, the royal wedding broke all records for the biggest ever live streaming audience online. (The BBC site wobbled, but YouTube's live stream to over 400 million viewers, ran smoothly. For those who watched BBC1's coverage, which started at 8.00 am and ended at 4.00 pm, you will never get that time back.)

Over the next two weeks the UK will all but close for business. (Why? Well, millions of us will be enjoying the ultimate ‘free holiday’ thanks to a late Easter break swiftly followed by "that royal wedding". That's the good news, unfortunately the bad news is that according to the Daily Mail it's going to cost £30bn in lost productivity! They've always got to spoil things, haven't they.)