Camilla-Queen Consort?

Are they any different from the Directors of any large comoany who have Personal Assistant's and Aides and all the rest.

I, for a while spent some time as part of the support group for a senior director of a big company. All the mechanics of their working lives was done by others, meetings arranged, travel and hotels booked, research done - and they worked very hard, mastering their briefs before any meeting, ensuring they knew who they were seeing , understood everything that was going on in the company. talking with accountants, engineers.

I really cannot see the difference between how they work and the RF.

Nor I MOnica but I know someone who will disagree.

M0nica said at 12:13 : They read up extensively on every place they are visiting.
I said at 12:31 : I now have a vision of Prince Charles … looking up the internet about flooding in Braemar ...
I said at 13:06 : its not hard work … if someone else does all the research and gives you the brief to read.
MollyGo said at 14:00 : I find it easier to organise them myself rather than parrot what someone else has written
I said at 14:58: Senior people in organisations get briefed. They don't parrot things back,

Anybody see any criticism of anybody Royal there?

Maybe mastering their brief requires some application of the grey matter; but its not as hard as finding the source material, collating the information into a digestible brief and presenting it in accessible ways. And then mastering the brief as well.

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One or the other.

Well however hard they are perceived to work, one thing is certain, they don’t do the laundry, or most of the cooking, or most of the shopping, or the cleaning, or the changing of the beds, or the redecoration, or most of the gardening, or the research to get the best deal such as energy deals, and a million and one other things involved in running a home. The reason that we all know they don’t do these things is that we know they employ staff. Staff do all these normal things and much more besides. When I went to work, I worked full time as a primary school teacher from when my youngest child was six years old, and I had a nine year old and a ten year old as well. My husband also worked full time at his job. We didn’t have staff, we don’t have staff now, not even a cleaning lady. We ran our home without help, and the only help we had was a neighbour taking our daughter to school when she took her child to school.
I believe that when people say the royals don’t work hard, that this what they mean. Because really, they don’t work hard!

oh, for goodness sake!

lemsip

oh, for goodness sake!

What do you mean? Don’t you think that my comment is valid? Why not? It’s true whether you think it’s valid or not!

I could challenge you in the ‘guess what I did’ stakes having to return to work as a lawyer when my son was 11 weeks old maddy, but as lemsip said, for goodness sake. I worked long hours and ran a home without having any ‘staff’, just a cleaner for a couple of months after going back to work while I sorted out a routine, but it’s not a competition. I didn’t have to do it in the glare of the public eye, commenting on my figure, what I wore/said/did, and waiting to pounce on any perceived slip.

Just the cleaner, what hardship.

My grandma was a cleaner. She was never bothered by people commenting on her figure either.

A cleaner for just a couple of months Alegrias. I don’t look down on cleaners. It’s honest work. I was bloody grateful for the help as I had none from my husband.

We're not talking about looking down on people. Were talking about people who work hard.

Daresay Grandma thought being a cleaner was pretty manageable after all the years spent gutting herring in the outdoors.

Daresay too that people have a different perspective on what hard work is.

I understand what you’re saying GSM and wouldn’t have even commented otherwise, but when posters were arguing about hard work, I’m afraid I had to have my say. I admire mothers who went back to work whilst their children were babies, but that’s not the point. I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that you worked hard, but that’s not the point either. The point is that posters were either saying that the royals work hard or they don’t, and so I thought I would document all the day to day activities that the royals don’t have to do and that do take up a great deal of time. Despite what some may think, it is 100% relevant. If all domestic duties are removed, by definition, they have a lot more time than other people. In particular, people like GSM. I have no doubt that you worked very hard.

No, the a Royals don’t work hard for the reasons others have said. One thing I would find difficult though, if I was ever a Royal, would be the constant sniping and criticism from the, mainly red top, media. I read the Daily Mail,online occasionally, just to get an idea of what the extreme swivel eyed right wing are thinking. It seems to me that the Duchess of Cambridge can’t go out of her front door without someone commenting on her weight, her hair, the cost of every item of clothing and jewellery. Whether a particular item of clothing has been worn before. Jeez. No wonder Harry and Meghan fled!

Ladyleftfieldlover, great post. I’d hate to be subject to that sort of scrutiny, comments and sometimes plain nastiness that is posted about her.
The Royals don’t do the work that many of us do. But then a lot of us don’t do work that others do but still know we work hard. Superciliously comparing our ‘working hard’ with others in different roles is like comparing GNs who are working hard caring for older parents or grandchildren or even having to work hard to cope with their own declining health negatively with the hard work done e.g. by teachers, nurses, gardeners or shop workers or McDonalds staff.

I'd swap in an instant.
The scrutiny is a small price to pay for the privileges, as far as I'm concerned.

No way would I want to swap. I’m retired. The Queen is still working at 95. It’s not a job until you reach retirement age, it’s a job for life. I’m extremely grateful to have retired and to be able to do what I want when I want.

I dont think anyone is tipping the queen out of bed in the morning and making her go to work.

She swore to dedicate her whole life to us when she was 21. And that’s exactly what she’s done. Would you want to still have to work at 95?

I dont want to work now.
That's why I would be quite happy to smile and shake hands with people, wearing the clothes that someone else is responsible for laundering and pressing.

Superciliously comparing our ‘working hard’ with others in different roles is like comparing GNs who are working hard caring for older parents or grandchildren or even having to work hard to cope with their own declining health negatively with the hard work done e.g. by teachers, nurses, gardeners or shop workers or McDonalds staff.

I've been comparing people who work outside in all weathers and can't give up because they need the money, with people for whom deciding which dress to wear is seen as hard work.

Its a different world.

Germanshepherdsmum

She swore to dedicate her whole life to us when she was 21. And that’s exactly what she’s done. Would you want to still have to work at 95?

What hard work does she do at age 95 please GSM? Maybe she could retire. Like everybody else?

Except David Attenborough of course. Last seen canoeing down the Amazon on BBC2 on a Sunday night.

Hard work? Not in the traditional sense.

However I wouldn't want their life. What a nightmare. No privacy. Life in a gilded cage.

One can understand why some members decide to flee.

Try having to do that at 95 MissA because it was promised many months ago that you would and you have a sense of duty. I can’t imagine being obliged to do that at 70.

The ones who flee get less peace than the ones who stay.
I can't imagine Kate with the heating blaring to dry her clothes, falling into bed at 11.30pm to go out and do 12 hours of hard physical work, with George waiting on the doorstep if she gets delayed.

I'm afraid I don't share the queens sense of duty.my duty is to my family, so it would be nice if I could actually be around to see them in any meaningful sense.