I’m all for the harmless fun of a Royal Wedding. If you look at it as a celebrity event – yes it is nauseating. But if you think about that fact that the English invented this system of elaborate pomp and pageantry to protect their society from 50 – 100 years of strife and turmoil every time a King kicked the bucket, it makes a little more sense.
Our historical frame of reference is idiotically short, so we have long forgotten the debt that we owe to Brittish royals (and commoners) who worked out the system over hundreds of years through bloody wars and tough negotiations.