In the weeks after the royal wedding analysts had a hay day finding ways to encorporate the historic occasion into their notes. In a May note, one went so far as to jokingly ask if sister of the bride Pippa Middleton should be responsible for deciding if the country is solvent.

Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, today preemptively blamed a lack of second quarter GDP growth in the UK on the royal wedding - but banks and others within the sector are still jumping on the event's coat-tails to inject some much needed glamour to their messages.