Queen Offers Minimum Wage to Future Employee

Robert59

Robert59

Well-known Member
Location
Now I live in Tennesee. Did live in Michigan.
Royal family head needs part-time housekeeper.

The matriarch of the Royal Family has a stamp collection worth more than $135 million—but plans to pay her future housekeeper minimum wage, Business Insider reports. Queen Elizabeth II is advertising for a part-time housekeeper on the Royal Household’s jobs board, seeking someone who will work 20 hours a week for approximately $12.95 an hour. The Firm, the corporate machine that runs the Royal Family, is worth $28 billion, while the queen's personal assets clock in at roughly half a billion dollars, per Forbes.

https://www.newser.com/story/315930/queen-elizabeth-needs-a-housekeeper.html
 

But the housekeeping job comes with perks like 33 days of paid vacation (more than three times the average for American workers) and a 15% contribution to their retirement funds. Just think putting you worked for the Queen on a job resume,
 

Attachments

  • 20201213_131938.jpg
    20201213_131938.jpg
    37 KB · Views: 7
john19485 said:
But the housekeeping job comes with perks like 33 days of paid vacation (more than three times the average for American workers) and a 15% contribution to their retirement funds. Just think putting you worked for the Queen on a job resume,
Click to expand...
On the other hand, how much or what type of vacation can someone earning approximately $12.95 an hour afford?
 
Much ado about nothing.
bdaca88648108e141facf85704c0bb4f--alexandra-breckenridge-blue-contacts.jpg
 
The royals have used that " won't Buckingham Place look good on a resume" line, and refused to pay decent wages. But how many people are hiring "footmen', today? I remember an article, decades ago, that the turnover of help was a security problem, because anybody who showed up for a job got hired. Not everybody is lining up to get the legally lowest paid jobs in the UK.
 
her role is mainly ceremonial. Staff issues will all be taken care of by various HR departments.

Don't you believe it!

She does all her own dispatch boxes and keeps it very tight rein on the ?Royal Household herself.

Nothing passes into law without her scrutiny and signature and it would be a brave Prime Minister who introduced legislation without passing it through her first.
 
Never understood the concept of royalty but there have been the privileged since day one. The story of the Titanic is a great example of privilege and class.
 
Her Majesty the Queen, Robert, probably learned about this,
just as like you did, by reading it in a newspaper, she will know
nothing about new staff, who will never get anywhere near her
for the foreseeable future, maybe after they have been employed
by "Office", for years.

Mike.
 
I seem to remember a documentary about a newspaper reporter, who went to B. Pal. on a Thursday, was hired, and on Friday AM brought in the Queen's tea. All his contact information was the newspaper which was told to say he was on assignment to B.P. Nobody from the palace ever checked up on him. He wrote several articles about nobody checking him out, but in one he mentioned that the Queen liked to have cereal in a favorite plastic bowl, instead of on super expensive china/gold dishes. That cased a big flap about the Press invading the Queen's privacy. Anybody remember this or was it my imagination?
 
Last edited:
fuzzybuddy said:
The royals have used that " won't Buckingham Place look good on a resume" line, and refused to pay decent wages. But how many people are hiring "footmen', today? I remember an article, decades ago, that the turnover of help was a security problem, because anybody who showed up for a job got hired. Not everybody is lining up to get the legally lowest paid jobs in the UK.
Click to expand...

I don't know, Fuzzy, but maybe experienced footmen are in big demand on Netflix these days! 😆
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I seem to remember a documentary about a newspaper reporter, who went to B. Pal. on a Thursday, was hired, and on Friday AM brought in the Queen's tea. All his contact information was the newspaper which was told to say he was on assignment to B.P. Nobody from the palace ever checked up on him. He wrote several articles about nobody checking him out, but in one he mentioned that the Queen liked to have cereal in a favorite plastic bowl, instead of on super expensive china/gold dishes. That cased a big flap about the Press invading the Queen's privacy. Anybody remember this or was it my imagination?
Click to expand...
What a load of rubbish.

I've got find China too, but I don't use everyday any more than anybody else does. As for eating off gold plate, if you'd ever tried it you'd know the food gets very cold very quickly.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I seem to remember a documentary about a newspaper reporter, who went to B. Pal. on a Thursday, was hired, and on Friday AM brought in the Queen's tea. All his contact information was the newspaper which was told to say he was on assignment to B.P. Nobody from the palace ever checked up on him. He wrote several articles about nobody checking him out, but in one he mentioned that the Queen liked to have cereal in a favorite plastic bowl, instead of on super expensive china/gold dishes. That cased a big flap about the Press invading the Queen's privacy. Anybody remember this or was it my imagination?
Click to expand...
Seems like a bit of fantasy fuzzybuddy, somebody got a job,
that bit is probably true, but the rest I suspect is fiction, if he
wrote all that he would be out on his ear, new people are not
allowed near the Queen, in the beginning and as far as taking
her breakfast to her, she has a "chambermaid", for those jobs.

New people could add something bad to her food!

I am afraid that whoever wrote that story is a novelist.

Mike.
 
Some years ago, I visited the late Queen Mother's house, the castle of Mey in the north of Scotland. This was her private residence bought after her husband, the king, died. It was a bit spartan by modern standards. Many of her former staff worked there as tour guides and told some great tales. She was, to put it politely, a bit eccentric, often wander off to the beach to collect sea shells, or taking a flask of tea and sitting at the roadside, waving to passers by. She was well known in the local area as a rather quaint old lady.

In her sitting room was a large tapestry to which she had attached a small toy 'Loch Ness monster' and she would invite visiting dignitaries to spot it. She had a small TV which she bought herself and a collection of video tapes. She was also a very keen fan of horse racing.
 
Never understood the concept of royalty but there have been the privileged since day one. The story of the Titanic is a great example of privilege and class

Not sure how the Queen, or even the royal family of the time, relates to the Titanic disaster

You will, of course, never understand the concept of royalty unless you were born to it, but the Queen is anointed by God and if you believe in God you must believe in the God given right to rule.

If you don't believe in God then move to a godless Republic like China or North Korea!

The laws of God cannot be transcended by the laws of man. Man made laws may remove the office, it doesn't remove the title.

As I've said in these columns before, the Comte de Paris is still the King of France. Prince Georg of Prussia is still the Kaiser, Prince Nikolai is still Czar of All the Russias, Karl von Habsburg is still the Austro Hungarian Emperor King Zog of Alban,ia has a living descendent somewhere as do the sovereign's of Italy, Greece and other places, any of them could be invited back at any time just as Juan Carlos of Spain was.

Why is the Queen in charge? Because God says so, and there's no changing that!
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top