LONDON is the capital of support for the Royal Family, at least according to how many street parties are to be held for Will and Kate’s wedding.


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Figures put together by the Local Government Association show that there are some 500 street parties planned for London on 29 April, which works out at about one event for every 14,000 people.

In contrast, the one street party Glasgow had to share between all its 500,000+ inhabitants had to be shelved due to lack of interest.

Liverpool is almost as not bothered by Prince William and Kate Middleton’s nuptials, with only four street parties in the offing, or about one party for every 125,000 people.

It’s a similar story across most of northern England – Manchester has just 13 parties to look forward to and Newcastle 11 – while the south of the country follows London’s lead, with hundreds of right royal do’s to attend in the likes of Kent, Surrey and Hertfordshire.

The north/south royal split in 2011 would come as a shock to a time traveller from the mid-17th century, as at the time of the English Civil War, London and the south were mainly bastions of Parliamentary/Republican support and the north was mostly loyal to the Crown.

A second, less adventurous, timelord, who came from 1981 would notice that, despite London’s best efforts, the total UK street party count had fallen from the tens of thousands for Prince Charles and Lady Diana’s wedding to 4,000 for Will and Kate’s.