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London, April 29 (ANI): Germany’s top news magazine has published a withering condemnation of Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton’s royal wedding.

Der Spiegel posted the piece on its website, calling the impending nuptials “a joke, a hopelessly over-hyped celebration of an absurdly undemocratic system,” reports the Daily Mail.

The magazine’s London correspondent, Marco Evers, said he pities the bride for her imminent loss of freedom, and “wonders why this eccentric nation continues to worship the Windsors’.

He condemns it as a “sad spectacle” and one that the country, mired in economic hard times, can ill afford.

“Westminster Abbey is quite a spectacular backdrop for the ceremony. But is it really worth all the fuss?” asked Evers.

“Half the British cabinet is coming, along with Opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband, who bears the grand official title “Leader of her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition”. Former conservative Prime Minister John Major will be present. But the last two Labour prime ministers, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, have not been invited.

“Is that their punishment for having supported the ban on fox hunting? Why should the autocratic Sultan of Brunei get invited and not the two previous leaders of a democratically elected British government?

“The whole world is waiting to admire Kate’s wedding dress. The designer will be inundated with work after this. But the wearer of the dress faces a future that shouldn’t really be desirable for an intelligent woman in the 21st century.

“Kate will have only three tasks from now on: serving her husband, looking good and bearing children, preferably boys. Apart from that, all she has to do is shut up.

“It’s like in the 1950s - only much worse because she will have to continue curtseying to the Queen and other higher-ranking members of the family she has married in to.

“The whole thing feels even worse than just an aberration of history. It’s a joke,” added Evers. (ANI)