Have you seen how many engagements the Queen does in a year?
This is not work - this is the public ribbon cutting, ship launching, banquet attending, hand shaking, royal variety performance watching 'payback' for a life of unbelievable privilege.
Her disfunctional children Andrew and Edward and their wives/ex wives and children would not know a days work if it bit them on the royal butts. Philip would have been sacked if he held any professional job for bringing it into disrepute by his offensive racist and sexist comments.
Now we have William doing some 'part time work', Catherine doing nothing and Harry bleating about his woes as if that was a job in itself.
Most of us hold down full time jobs, try to do the best for our kids, manage our own households and cope with life's stresses and problems yet still have to worry about the cost of mortgages, fear of redundancy, cost of transport, concern about ill health, old age and retirement and have limited choice over where we live and what we can afford to live in.
Forgive me if I have little sympathy for an extended family living at tax payers expense, with no urgency to work, surrounded by sycophantic advisors and with easy reach to the best medical care, best education, chauffeured transport, designer wardrobes, beauticians and endless homes and holidays to choose from.
If they don't like their lot they can opt out of it. They don't and indeed many choose to marry in to it.
Most people have no choice over their circumstances - they have every choice.