Wedding Lights

It is amusing to learn that the American, Canadian and Australian TV stations are trying to persuade Buckingham Palace to keep on the lights illuminating its facade after the 12.30 am time it has been decided to turn them off for 'green' reasons. The lights are normally turned off at 11 pm and the Palace are apparently saying that they can't keep them on after the extended time not only for green reasons but because turning them off say 3 hours later will keep those who sleep at the front of the Palace awake. The TV stations want the lights kept on so that their commentators can be more easily seen against a lighted Buckingham Palace back drop. Will the Palace back down? Will it insist that the 'green' reasons are sacrosanct? The Prince of Wales is sometimes right and sometimes wrong and I would venture to say that he is very wrong on the 'green' side of things. At this time in our economic history it also seems like shooting ourselves in the foot not to give the crowds what they want and the Royal family should know this. Tourism is after all a significant money earner for the country and we need as much money as we can get and as the Royal family is at the very heart of our tourist attractions they should be doing all they can to encourage it rather than turning off the lights.