Even if the government had announced a " royal bank holiday" , employers aren't obliged to follow the diktat. What would have happened is the public sector would have got an extra holiday ( on top of the extraordinary number they get already) and for the rest of us it would have been pot luck, dependent on whether our employer wanted to celebrate it . If you are an employee of an anti-royalist , then not much chance
My suggestion to at least honour Harry and Meghan's big day , is to move the May Day Holiday , which was established in 1978 by the communist Michael Foot whilst he was Employment Secretary . I think his intention was to recognise " International Workers’ Day " as at the time the UK and its busted economy resembled a socialist state much like Cuba, USSR and North Korea. As we seemed to have disruptive strikes every other week in the days of that Labour Government , it was a tad ironic .
So in modern day parlance #movemaydayforharryandmeghan