The royal wedding’s one billion pound economy lift
By Reuters
11 March 2018 |
6:21 am
The upcoming wedding of Britain's Prince Harry and his American fiancee Meghan Markle could be worth as much as one billion pounds ($1.38billion) to the UK economy according to one estimate.
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