Beautiful memorial service for Prince Philip

If you’re on a salary you travel in your work time so you’re being paid anyway, and organise your meetings accordingly though volver don’t you, which amounts to the same thing.

I have got up in the morning at 3am to catch the early flight to Paris and didn't get back until about 11pm. Then into work the next day.

Which is why I find it a bit hard to take when I'm told that the Royals work really hard.

Standard practice in public service that any travel from your normal place of work to another venue is paid working hours - unions wouldn’t allow anything else would they? If it’s good enough for us...

Pantglas I might ask for some back pay..all those residential school journeys..on duty 24/7....

Is that only be for civil servants...?

I was overwhelmed watching the memorial service wondering how the Queen must have felt where her grandson Prince Harry presence was made noticeable by his absence

The Queen’s seven grandchildren were there so doubt absence
of one was of concern

I cannot, however, tell you what colour dress Kate was wearing on the 23rd June 2011. I'm sure there are some that can
I'm sure it was blue.

Don't forget travel time either!

Casdon

If you’re on a salary you travel in your work time so you’re being paid anyway, and organise your meetings accordingly though volver don’t you, which amounts to the same thing.

Oops, sorry, I saw that afterwards.

RTWT

PECS

Pantglas I might ask for some back pay..all those residential school journeys..on duty 24/7....

Is that only be for civil servants...?

Certainly not PECS
I don't remember being paid from leaving home at 6.30 to catch a train to wherever then getting home at 10 pm, only just for the standard week.
Of course, there's always the on-call allowance for those who might get called out at any unearthly hour.

Nope ,never have been paid for 200 mile round trips ,your wage was your wage .My son worked for a short time a sa salesman....he was all over the country literally ,if he didn't make the sale he didn't get paid and he had to pay for his own travel ...this wasn't in the last century o
r even the last decade

However, travel time or not travel time, there is a lot of work that goes on out of public view too, not just time spent on public appearances.

callistemon My father, a civil servant, had to travel when he worked for the then DSS, chairing tribunals. I believe he could retrospectively claim travel and hotel costs including breakfast & dinner..not lunch or alcohol. He treated his expenses as a bonus..which my mum endlessly pointed out it was not... and we would be taken out for a treat or he would buy a gadget , new book or toy for us!

Grany's maths is correct, it is 521 engagements for PC. Mind you an hour would be long enough for me with him.

PECS I remember a couple of colleagues and I once spent our meal allowance on afternoon tea at the Pump Rooms in Bath.
Well, it was too late for lunch and too early for dinner and we had time to fill before our train home.
Very nice it was too!

Gilly3

Grany's maths is correct, it is 521 engagements for PC. Mind you an hour would be long enough for me with him.

So can you imagine what it must be like for him spending so much time talking to so many people - some must be inspiring but some will be tedious and boring (or even worse, gushing).

Gilly you know how long every engagement takes ? Do tell,
how long to meet someone starting a business through
The Prince’s Trust, to visit a farming area, meeting a head of
state, attending the opening of The Senydd ?

Here you go. Prince Charles' office told us. Surely they'd know? ?

www.republic.org.uk/hard_working_royals

I over estimated. I was too generous ??

Well, it's more than I'm doing workwise but I am a bit older than Charles so I'm allowed!

How about others on here?
Or is posting on Gransnet counted as work now?

My DH is a similar age to PC. DH works most days ..some days he works from home writing reports but he meets different people, makes decisions, offers encouragement & advice...and makes all his own arrangements & drives himself to appointments, puts petrol in the car in himself, picks up a sandwich,loads the washing machine, goes to the tip, ferries the DGC to & from clubs etc. , picks up a bit of shopping, jet washes the patio, puts his own toothpaste on the brush, dresses himself, irons his own clothes.......

Just looked at a clip of the memorial service, showing Princess Beatrice in tears as the Queen took her seat at the start of the service.

Despite what anyone thinks about the rights and wrongs of Andrew escorting his aged mother, my heart went out to her.

She must have felt that her dear grandmother will not be at many more occasions such as this, plus thinking about her grandfather, and she was visibly upset. She held her service sheet in front of her face until she could compose herself and begin to sing.

She was probably crying because she had just found out that not only was her father involved in sex trafficking, but now her parents have been involved in a fraud.

Naturally Windsor knows nothing about it, and in any case has paid back the money fraudulently obtained.

Or she loved her grandfather , loves her grandmother and her
parents,

Probably true Anniebach

how lovely it must feel to be one of those people who’ve never wept over a family member’s misdeeds - I certainly wasn’t blessed with perfect relations or maybe I’m less judgmental!

Maybe hormones and stuff. She only had a baby 6 months ago.

Whitewavemark2

She was probably crying because she had just found out that not only was her father involved in sex trafficking, but now her parents have been involved in a fraud.

That’s a nasty comment on this particular thread.