Queen’s canary yellow dress costs BetFred

You gotta love some of the special bet lines offered by bookmakers these days.

Over at Paddy Power you can get odds on what phrases will be contained in the soon to be released rap song by Charlie Sheen and Snoop Dog.  ‘Winning‘, Tiger Blood‘, ‘Defeat is not an Option‘, ‘Goddesses‘, ‘Torpedo of Truth‘ and ‘Warlock Warrior‘ are all odds-on.

Pretty much all the big UK bookmakers offer special, or novelty bet lines, and as you can imagine the Royal Family are always a well represented market.

Some of the lines offered by William Hill leading up to Kate and Will’s wedding included:

• would Prince William split his trousers bending over in the Abbey?
• would Kate get the order of William’s names wrong while repeating the vows?
• would Prince Phillip fall asleep during the ceremony?
• would Carole Middleton be photographed chewing gum?
• would Harry drop the rings?

One of the most popular bet lines with the punters, certainly the one offered by almost all of big bookies was what colour the Queen would be wearing on the big day, and at least one bookmaker has taken a bit of a bath on this one.

A week out from the wedding yellow was at the relatively long odds of 12/1 BetFred before being heavily backed to become  the 8/15 clear favourite when bets closed.

BetFred owner Fred Done lamented the Queen’s dress choice, saying,

“Having daughters weddings have always been costly but today was a disaster. Royal punters are celebrating with a King’s ransom but of course I wish the couple the very best for the future.”

I wonder if the Queen had a cheeky few bob on herself?