This is actually getting kinda funny...the wrong date on all those teatowels, ashtrays, cups and geegaws, the Pope ruining their fun, the "ordinary folk" refusing to give up their afternoon wedding slot at the registry to suit them, forcing them into an earlier union...and now, they are delaying the blooming Grand National!
Now the Grand National falls at lofty hurdle of royal wedding
By Cahal Milmo
06 April 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=626832It is a glamorous event of national importance that has been generating gossip for weeks and requires exhaustive preparations to house VIP guests.
But even the Grand National has found itself added to a growing roll call of chaos caused by the postponed wedding of the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles - as well as Windsor shopkeepers and dozens of officers in the Thames Valley Police.
Organisers of the 166-year-old steeplechase, which is worth £250m to the British economy, announced they were delaying the start of the race on Saturday afternoon after negotiations with the BBC about the clashing coverage of the day's two big events.
The alteration to the start of the famous horse race from 3.45pm to 4.10pm was forced after it was decided to show the royal wedding on BBC1 from midday until 3pm and start broadcasting from Aintree just 15 minutes before the scheduled start of the big race....