A ROYAL MESS
Clean up crews begin the task of tidying up Windsor after the biggest party of the year
A MASSIVE clean-up operation is underway after more than 120,000 royal revellers descended on Windsor for the biggest wedding of the year.
Clean-up crews arrived early this morning to tidy the Berkshire town, where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot yesterday.
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Huge crowds filled the town for the festivities, but now barriers and signs of pageantry have been stripped away as residents recover from the influx of visitors.
Lorries lined the streets as catering trucks and news vans piled out of Windsor Castle's grounds to make way for rubbish collectors.
There is a still a heavy police presence in the Berkshire town, with the newly married Duke and Duchess of Sussex set to head into London this afternoon.
Rubbish was cleared from the grass either side of the Long Walk during the "well executed" tidy up.
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Union Jacks are still flying throughout the town, but elsewhere in Windsor there are relatively few remaining signs of the royal pomp.
Naziq Hussain, manager at Esquires Coffee house, told the Press Association: "Yesterday you couldn't move here, but this morning it seems like a pretty average Sunday, except for the TV crews.
"There was an articulated lorry taking the barriers away when I got into work at seven, they were all taken down overnight.
"The place is really tidy, you wouldn't think anything happened. The clean-up operation began very soon afterwards, it's very well planned and executed."
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Harry and Meghan tied the knot with a groundbreaking modern ceremony complete with a gospel choir and eccentric American bishop.
He also said "thank you Pa" after Prince Charles walked his bride down the aisle.
Tourism to boom
TOURISM in Windsor is expected to boom following the wedding seen around the globe on TV.
Yesterday the town was still buzzing with well-wishers.
Queues to visit Windsor Castle, which is usually closed on Sundays but opened specially yesterday, were over an hour long.
Visitors flocked to the chapel where Harry and Meghan tied the knot to see the flowers and sit on pews occupied by royals.
The town’s tourist chiefs expect visitor numbers to go “through the roof”.
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