Royal weddings have traditionally been very special and take place with the next level grandeur – royal standards, sophistication, and awe-inspiring arrangements to impress every royal guest and people flocking around. Almost every royal wedding gathered the attention of media and royal fans for its state of the art arrangements. Following the wedding-tradition of the royal family, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding in 2011 were no different.

However, the news Cambridges’ wedding has come around again making headlines for bad reasons. The CEO of Republic, Graham Smith told Express that Kate Middleton and Prince William’s wedding was ‘too extravagant’ and it should not have been that big.

The CEO made the reason for his anger and concerns clear over the real cost of Monarchy. He said, that the royal events of such high levels cost millions on ‘security and disruption to normal business’ and these costs are borne are British people.

In addition to talking about royal marriages, Smith also shed some revealing lights on the overall cost of the monarchy -  the CEO suggested that the cost of monarchy reaches up to £345million per year ‘from the taxpayer’ and it's much more than what the royal household claims it to be.

Smith added on to say that Britishers don’t owe Prince William and Kate Middleton an income, a role, or anything, in fact, none owes royals anything.

The CEO’s also floated an example of the ideal level of celebration for a wedding. However, the example of a reasonable-value wedding ceremony that he picked up was also from the royal house. Smith said that the Cambridges wedding should have been as small as Princess Beatrice’s pandemic-time wedding.

Princess Beatrice tied the know with Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi last month in a private ceremony held at the Royal Lodge in Windsor. Due to the government’s guidelines, the scale of celebration was pretty small – decent arrangements for a few guests and nothing over the top. However, it is all but obvious the ceremony must have been huge had the situation been otherwise like good old days.

In contrast to Princess Beatrice’s scaled-down wedding, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s ceremony was mammoth from the opening to the closing. The ceremony took place at Westminster Abbey in April 2011. Around 3000 guests attended the ceremony in different phases. The celebration continued for a few days featuring over 5000 street parties, shows in hotels of the UK and Canada, and a lot more.

Experts expect that the CEO's words may reorient everyone's attention to royal household's expenditures.