Those of you fortunate enough not to be in the UK will hopefully have been spared much of the sycophantic drivel that we've had to endure over here for the last few weeks. But at least it's all over now.
It would appear that invited guests (which presumably excludes those 'commoners'' who were told to take their own food and drink as none would be provided for them) were given a so-called goody bag with these contents:
Marriage Order of Service booklet
Commemorative chocolate coin
Wedding labelled spring water bottle
Royal wedding fridge magnet
Handbag shortbread, made specially for the wedding day
A 20% off voucher of Middle Ward shop at Windsor Castle which can be used for online purchases.
In other words, tat. And now many of those people are selling their goody bags on eBay for bids of hundreds of pounds. One seller confesses that the 'handbag' shortbread (whatever that is) has been eaten but the empty packet will be included. How splendid.
I think a lot of the auctions are cons (one apparently has 103 bids, the top one currently standing at £50,100). I know I'm a miserable old curmudgeon, but are these people truly nuts?
(As you may have guessed, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool republican!)
Edit
It appears that the ‘handbag’ shortbread that appears in the descriptions of many of the items for sale should read ‘handmade’. People must have copied and pasted a description from somewhere without even checking to see if it made sense. Definitely nuts.