Why is Prince William's wedding so concerned? This also stimulated the stock market. 2 billion people around the world watch the live broadcast. Why is it so influential?

The royal wedding caused a sensation because it was a completely traditional ceremony, and the red tape in it had become a living fossil.

After eight years of long-distance love, the wedding of Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton was held at Westminster Abbey in London yesterday. This is one of the most important events in the British royal family after the century wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana 30 years ago. The number of people "watching" the wedding in various ways in the world is three times that of Diana's wedding, reaching a record 2.4 billion. Why are people so enthusiastic about this royal wedding?

The audience set up camp in advance.

Only more than 65,438+0,900 VIPs can enter Westminster Abbey to watch the ceremony, including members of royal families, governors and heads of government of Commonwealth countries, representatives of diplomatic missions in Britain, cultural and sports stars and so on. They can be said to be the people who have the honor to "watch" the royal wedding recently. The sound and images of the wedding scene are broadcast to the outside world through multiple large screens and loudspeakers, which makes the whole of London shrouded in a thick festive atmosphere.

Outside Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace, on both sides of the short parade route, thousands of people watched the ceremony. It is reported that although the weather in London was gloomy yesterday, it did not affect the enthusiasm of the British public at all. In order to see the beautiful figure of the new princess sitting in the royal carriage in a wedding dress, many spectators camped in the audience area several hours in advance to seize the favorable position.

The number of journalists has reached a record high.

Prince William's wedding has also become a major event in the world's major news media, with a record number of live broadcasts and reporter reports on the wedding day. Among them, the number of journalists is as high as 8500.

On the 29th, around Buckingham Palace and other places, famous TV stations built nearly 36 temporary live broadcast rooms. Qatar Al Jazeera has also set up a three-story facility in the nearby Green Park, with an amazing investment scale.

In Westminster Abbey, nearly 40 cameras were set up, and 28 licensed photographers and journalists were arranged to record the details of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, capturing the wonderful moments of 1900 guests. In this report, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) sent a total of 550 personnel. BBC America launched a 184-hour program covering a wide range of wedding topics.

On the internet, YouTube, Google, Yahoo and other famous websites broadcast the wedding of the century online. In addition, interactive websites such as Facebook and Twitter have also seen a blowout of relevant information and wedding-related topics.

One third of the world's population "watches" weddings.

198 1 year, the global audience for the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana reached 750 million. At that time, online media was far from developed.

Yesterday, 2.4 billion viewers around the world watched the wedding live broadcast through TV, Internet and other channels, that is, one third of the world's population shared the joy of William and Kate's oath. Among them, 2 billion people traditionally watch the live broadcast in front of the TV all day, and another 400 million netizens pay attention to the wedding scene through online video. This is entirely due to the improvement of TV broadcasting means and the rapid development of the Internet.

Pay attention to Prince William's wedding and remember Diana.

Why does a royal wedding attract so many people's attention? Zhang Guoqing, an international scholar and expert on discourse power, believes that the first reason is the style and charming temperament of the British royal family; The second is the sunny love and sunny image of Prince William and Kate; Third, people's Diana complex still exists, and paying attention to Prince William's wedding is of great significance to remember Princess Diana.

"In the last century 1997, William was only 15 years old when Britain held a funeral for Princess Diana. The helpless and sad child left a sad impression on everyone. Now that he has grown up, he has promoted Diana's spirit in many aspects such as charity. In a sense, today, William is comforting his mother with his sunny smiling face and true love for Kate. "

Sunshine, love and kindness to the people cause * * *

At the moment of exchanging rings with William, Kate has created two firsts of the British royal family: the first princess with a college education; The first unmarried princess to live together. University education and unmarried cohabitation are very common among young people in Britain and have special significance in the British royal family.

In the eyes of the British public, the love between Prince William and Kate is full of sunshine and people-friendliness, which is easy to cause * * *. During their college years, they shared a small villa with two other friends and lived there for two years. Kate, the princess-to-be, likes shopping in Taobao as much as other young girls, and doesn't like luxury goods. In the photos of William and Kate released by the British media, they are dressed in white shirts, smiling kindly and showing their people-friendly demeanor.

"Happy" for the global disaster and the British economy

Some experts believe that under the impact of catastrophic news such as the earthquake in Japan and the civil war in Libya, people will naturally be happy to see Prince William's wedding become a "happy event" of recent international negative news, which will lead to a high degree of enthusiasm for the ceremony.

The British media pointed out that Prince William's wedding also bears the mission of "rushing to celebrate" the long-term downturn in the British economy. It is estimated that weddings will bring at least 6.2 billion pounds of income to various industries in the UK, and will promote the economic growth of the UK by 0.25%, among which retail and tourism will benefit the most. The British Tourism Board designated 20 1 1 as the Royal Theme Tourism Year. It is estimated that people who come to watch the wedding will increase the daily average number of tourists in London from 500,000 to 1 100, and directly contribute more than 50 million pounds in tourism revenue to Britain. This tourism momentum may last for 18 months.

The American "Time" magazine wrote that the British royal family should use its influence to further enhance Britain's soft power. The article said, "Around the world, millions of people still use the royal family as a medium to understand Britain. On the global stage, the royal family is an asset. After the wedding ceremony and marriage, Prince William must show that he knows how to use this asset. "

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Worldwide, 65.438+0.5 billion people watch TV.

Live broadcast of the wedding of the Spanish Crown Prince

On May 22nd, 2004, Prince Philip, heir to the Spanish throne, married leticia, a famous former host of Spanish TV channel, which was the first wedding of the Spanish royal family in nearly a century. There are18,000 military and police officers performing security tasks, equivalent to 15% of Spain's, and the total cost is as high as 25 million US dollars. According to statistics, 654.38+05 billion people witnessed this wonderful moment on the wedding day through live TV.

Prince Charles married Diana.

Millions of people watched the wedding in the street.

1981On July 29th, British Crown Prince Charles and commoner Diana held a grand wedding in St Paul's Church in London. Known as "the most luxurious wedding in the 20th century", it cost about 30 million pounds, and Princess Diana's wedding dress alone was inlaid with 1 10,000 hand-sewn pearls. It is reported that on the wedding day, the 3.2-kilometer-long street from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's Cathedral was crowded with millions of people watching the wedding. Today, this century wedding is still talked about by people.

Danish crown prince marries Australian civilian girl

You have to pay for your own travel and clothing.

On May 14, 2008, as the heir to the throne of the romantic fairy tale kingdom, Prince Frederick of Denmark put on the royal crystal shoes for Donaldson, an Australian civilian girl. For Donaldson's family, the cost of coming from Australia to attend the wedding is a bit of a headache. In addition to paying for air tickets, the Danish royal family also asked the female guests attending the wedding to prepare three different dresses, which really brought trouble to the Donaldson family who were not rich.