Opinion: Why the fanfare and fuss over the royal wedding?

Why do so many of us have an interest in the royal family?

Even those who proclaim they can't stand the royals and spent the weekend avoiding royal wedding coverage - surely one has to have an interest in something to have a strong opinion?

The week leading up to the wedding polarised folk a bit. While some planned dinner parties and tele-fests around the event, getting excited about what Meghan Markle would wear down the aisle and wondering who would walk her along it, others were harrumphing, pooh poohing and even getting a bit sweary at the thought of so much attention being lavished on so few by so many.

There would no doubt have been some divided households when it came to who got custody of the remote control on Saturday evening.

But love it or loathe it, the royal wedding was everywhere over the weekend and will continue to be until the last fashionista has commented on the length of Meghan's veil and every image taken the day has had an airing in the glossy magazines.

Why do we care?

In some ways because it's a glimpse at something unattainable - pomp and circumstance, tiaras and cathedrals, open landaus drawn by the Windsor greys ...

But in other ways, they are just so darned relatable ... Cathedral and crown jewels notwithstanding, there were the portly uncles, the weathered great-grandies, the over-made-up aunts and cousins and the bored stifling-a-yawn rellies and guests and the bright, "dressed to kill" young things that we see at all weddings.

We like that - they are just like us after all.

Cheers Meghan and Harry, nice job.