Princess Anne and her husband Tim Laurence after attending the Order of the Garter service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 17 June, 2024.Princess Anne and her husband Tim Laurence after attending the Order of the Garter service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 17 June, 2024.
Mercifully, given the family’s impressive birth rate, there is no suggestion it will have to resort, as in the past, to importing foreign workers who may not even speak the language. But if the labour shortfall is not yet acute or even noticeable, royal authorities allude to struggles that have perhaps been under-reported: vacant patronages, event planners who can’t lay their hands on a duke.
Do we want the British royals – since this is presumably the alternative – to abandon their exceptionalist history of groaning palace balconies, stuffed with mad hats and chestfuls of inexplicable medals, and follow lounge-suited European versions down the route of mass redundancies? Well yes, we do, obviously, but this seems to have no impact on the urgings of royalty specialists, even with the ongoing counter-argument of ex-working royal,The routinely proposed solution – recruitment of...
A recruitment drive now could leave the family looking bloated when geopolitical and generational changes seriously challenge the assumption that a royal invariably adds value. How many working royals does a country need? No doubt Tom Nairn was right, in, to say “one might as well demand a lowering of the British annual rainfall as ask for ‘the abolition of the monarchy’ ”.
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