This man is 87 and keeps meticulous records on the royal family's comings and goings

Long before there was such a thing as "Big Data," there was Tim O'Donovan, a retired insurance broker who has meticulously tabulated the British royal family's engagements with pencil and paper every day for 40 years.

Tim O'Donovan, an 86-year-old retired insurance broker who archives details of the royal family's engagements every year, at his home office in Datchet, England.O'Donovan, 87, is not part of the hurly-burly of royal commentary. Not only is he not active on social media, he claims never to have seen it.

"I wouldn't want to overplay this," Defty said, but as a chronicler of the monarchy, O'Donovan "is in a small way part of the UK constitution."As for O'Donovan himself, he speaks about his project —"my tables," he calls them — as one of his life's great endeavours. "It was just a fascination with what they actually did," he said. "Some of them work extremely hard."It did not take long for Buckingham Palace to take note. A few years in, the dean of St George's Chapel in Windsor, where O'Donovan and the Queen both attend services, pulled him aside to pass on a message: palace officials wanted the data project to stop. O'Donovan went to see the Queen's private secretary in an effort to persuade him of its usefulness.

"All I'm doing is recording their activities," he said. "It's just a straightforward table of events, really." His sons, who both work for insurance companies, have no interest in carrying on his royal chronicle. He has considered asking his 15-year-old grandson, but he says he doesn't want to burden him during exams. He worries what will happen if he dies in June, for example, right in the middle of a year which is only half tallied.

Why even care they are interbreeding with outsiders now

Nothing worthwhile to do.

If Tim O'Donovan claims he has not used or 'seen anything on social media', then he must have read a lot of newspapers and magazines like traditional research was/is done. Hope he has tagged each royal coming and going with the journal name, author, page number and date. 😅

That's a bit boring

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