Ya, France and USA are doing so great compared to Canada, UK, Australia *eyeroll*

Monarchy helps inspire greatness. Some just don't want to be great. It costs us less than it generates.

These people are better than you.

You are merely a peasant "citizen" of a former colony granted independence by an enlightened UK parliament.

Please feel free to stfu, as no one important is going to bother about what your opinions are.

Better than what goes on in most of the world...we need institutions to provide a bit of structure to society and it's been that way for thousands of years. The Royals are poor compared to Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates.

they could afford to pay for the trip themselves.

I hate the Royals. They are useless people. I would love to put a filter on my online news so that I never see Prince William and Kate ever again. Tackiest welfare cases of all time.

@ 100%, The royals clown family may be the tackiest "welfare" cases of all time, but thankfully there will always be even sillier clowns like Kanye and Kim to keep us nauseated!!! Talk about tacky!!!

Will and Kate strike me as intelligent people who also work for a living like the rest of us and have a connection with commoners that other royals don't. I don't think it's fair to target them when there are so many useless actors, pop stars and socialites who do a lot less and probably have a lot more money.

What. you don't find the shenanigans of minor German nobles to be fascinating and worth millions? How Whiggish.

If Wills and Kate were to visit it with a spread in 'Hello' magazine, this might save it.

I just lover their whole History, from William the Conquerer to our current Queen. It is a money making institution that will go on for generations because of William (5th), Queen Katherine, Prince George (7th) and Princess Charlotte