The point of having a monarchy going back hundreds of years, was pretty much always to have a strong, bold leader who would get out in front of their people and LEAD. It wouldn't have done Edward IV much good if he'd been all, 'actually, I have a bit of a sore head today, and small kids you know, so I'll just eh... retreat here a wee bit '.
The sight of a healthy, strong man who in normal life couldn't keep his part-time job and combine it with the few paltry charidee engagements he does every year (when every other responsibility is handled for him - finance, DIY, housekeeping and groundskeeping, live in nanny and mostly stay-at-home wife, no laundry, no picking up shit from the dry-cleaner, no trying to frantically get the printer to work to print out that stuff about a charity one's going to see because lo, it's already been done for you and put into a neat folder marked BRIEFING), who has now run away to his country pile and patronisingly says 'very well-done' to older, more experienced, harder working, braver people working in Yorkshire schoolS, who are conditioned to be all 'Oh, your highness, you've right lifted my spirits with your few words of praise', is extremely disappointing.
They should 100% have capitalised on their recent great PR by staying in their mahoosive house in London, and by one of them volunteering to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING. If they had the wit to do that they'd have guaranteed themselves for a lifetime.
As it is they've answered 'what do they actually DO for the country in a crisis?'