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Topic started on 9-4-2011 @ 06:25 PM by Hessling
(Reuters) - A British minister said on Wednesday that more than a quarter of the world's population was expected to watch television broadcasts of this month's royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton.


www.reuters.com...

Wow!

So with all that is going on in the world today, about 29% of ALL the planet's inhabitants plan to watch this? How many millions will actually be setting their alarms to wake them in the middle of the night to stare at an image of two people getting married, whom they do not know personally, all because they are royalty?

Can somebody PLEASE explain this to me? I am simply stunned and am seriously having problems processing this.
edit on 9-4-2011 by Hessling because: Clarification



reply posted on 9-4-2011 @ 07:01 PM by lifeform11
there were less people around when diana was married but i checked for comparsion to see if interest has gone up or down.

en.wikipedia.org...

750 million watched diana/charles.

www.nationmaster.com...&date=1981

world population back then according to the link above was 4,494,234,902.97

the population has increased by 3 billion since then. is anybody good at working out the percentage? to see if there is less interest per person or more?

whos to say they are not playing up the figure for this wedding anyway. we only have their word for it.



reply posted on 9-4-2011 @ 07:09 PM by Whateva69
reply to post by Hessling



I will probably watch some of it.

It will be a big part of our history, think of how important this footage may come in generations ahead.

He is a future king, you never know he could do something amazingly great for mankind, though he could do something rather stupid, either way it’s there and documented for generations to come.


reply posted on 9-4-2011 @ 07:09 PM by Griffo
reply to post by Hessling



Can somebody PLEASE explain this to me? I am simply stunned and am seriously having problems processing this.


People get excited over weddings of their close friends and family, but here we have the marriage of the future King of England. Most people never have the opportunity to watch this sort of things in their whole lifetime


reply posted on 9-4-2011 @ 07:11 PM by Redevilfan09
reply to post by lifeform11



Just under a 1/4 of the world watched Diana get married, with this one they are expected just under 1/3 of the population. correct me if I'm wrong.
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