It's shocking how much harder the older Royals are working

[tatalan]

The Princess of Wales barely outworked Queen Elizabeth who died in early September after cancelling a series of engagements.

Charles and Anne look to be carrying the monarchy at present. The Earl and Countess of Wessex are grafting hard as well.

What do William and Kate spend their days doing? Surely as young energetic members of the RF, they should be pulling their weight.

I guess it’s so horrible that no one ever leaves the gilded cage when the door is wide open, even H&M wanted to stay 😂

@Roussette the one year I got semi-finals tickets in the ballot it was cancelled due to covid!

I was a teacher. It's all about timing, objectives, targetted questions, listening carefully to people, dealing with many different types of people, thinking on your feet and then review when you get home. Teachers don't plan lessons from scratch.

And even if we accept part time working as they have children - do they both need to be part time ??? I mean how many families really have 2 parents both part time ???

This has been my point again and again over the years. William (or Kate, don't care which, or a mixture of both) should be working very very hard. I just don't see it.

Gah! What a pain!

I have high hopes for next year. I always have

Anne did 10 in one day this year and that was basically less than 9-5. A phone call, coffee, meet someone else, cut a ribbon - visit a school an hour and so on.

Exactly. The CC is a puff piece. Last year her own birthday was listed as an 'engagement'😜

As for William there's a reason he's long been dubbed 'Workshy Wills' just as there's a reason Kate is known as Duchess Doolittle. Even the CC is incapable of disguising the acres of empty me-time that fills their days.

I can't remember who on these threads recommended reading And What Do You Do? (possibly @Roussette) but it's free to borrow if you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription. I'm only a few chapters in but it's certainly an eye-opener!

I do read it for a laugh sometimes. Talk about padding out! A phone call is an engagement, I'm surprised Kate walking in to William's office isn't an engagement!

It’s always the way with the next generation. Edward stepped up more and more after his grandmother died and his parents got older.

it’s how they do things - the younger ones having a bit of their own stuff and then picking up the stuff dropped by the older ones.

William, Kate, Edward and Sophie are going to find their workloads massively ramped up now there are the shoes of the Queen to fill, plus the stuff Charles will no longer do, and the picking up of stuff from the likes of the Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra who are slowing down considerably.

It’s just more noticeable with William because the Queen was so long lived. It had been intended for her and Philip to do very similar with his naval career and things like living in Malta, but her father’s early death put paid to that.

Well said @AnnunciataZ

My hope has always been that some wavering Royalists would read it because this isn't opinion, it is fact. They won't like it, uncomfortable reading.

It verified what I had always had my suspicions about. My DD has just read it, I forgot I told her about it a few years ago, she was taken aback with it all.

I can’t imagine Kate having to set up the ironing board and do the school uniforms after she’s put the children to bed. They live a life of luxury that most folk can only dream of. They’ll not be turning the heating off in fear of the next hike in their direct debit. They don’t live in the real world but they are subsidised by the lesser mortals who do. Quite frankly, I’m sick of the sight of them.

What I didn't realise was that when the Queen lived in Malta, Charles was still in the U.K. in the charge of his grandparents!

Maybe if teachers had a team of staff to do all their planning and marking for them it would be.

Are you a teacher?

They moved house.

I don't answer personal questions but I will say I know plenty about it.

Are you a working royal?

Have you got a link to back up your statement they have a nanny each? Or is that just part of your fanfic you've created?

I can provide several links that show they have used the same one nanny since George was 8 months old.

www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1664362/Kate-middleton-prince-william-move-windsor-nanny-maria-Borrallo-exclusive

people.com/royals/all-a/

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/kate-middleton-prince-william-nanny-b2145827.html

www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a16566402/royal-nanny-maria-teresa-turrion-borrallo-facts/

Wheres the links to prove they have more than one??

They just have one nanny as far as I know. With obviously a stand in when she holidays or goes back home to Spain or whatever.

She was brought up in Palencia in N.Spain (not to be confused with Valencia). We were in Palencia last year for a few days, it's a really lovely town with a lot of history. She goes back to her family there when she can. Apparently.

Kate and William are embarrassingly lazy. Yes, they have children, but they also have a full time staff and barely lift a finger. Their lives are mostly holiday funded by us.
William has at least done the air ambulance thing but Kate has never done a day's honest graft in her pampered life, and is now being held up as a paragon of womanhood. A bit of part time faffing about at Jigsaw (owned by her parents' mates), during which time she made clear that she could only be at the office if William didn't need her hanging off his arm, is all.
I don't object to having a royal family but they should be doing a 40 hour week IMHO.

People saying that they're beavering away behind the scenes preparing for meetings etc - didn't Kate once ask a museum curator if Faberge eggs were still being made? How dim can you get?

So no one has ever held down a full time job and moved house? 😅

I mean, if you are trying to say doing royal engagements is a bit like being a teacher because you have to listen carefully to people and think on your feet then it's also like being a GP, or a shop assistant, or a bathroom salesman. It's so broad as to be meaningless.

Using your plan from last year or seeing if there's a worksheet you can download is really not like having a personal assistant, researchers and speech writers doing all your work for you

They have one qualified Norland nanny and other staff that they don't call nannies but are not Norland nannies. Thus they can claim they only have one nanny.

Sorry if I’ve missed it, but does anyone know how much the Royals actually work? I see the number of engagements, but it’s hard to quantify that into days and hours. There must be preparation time, reading documents, etc. There must be work that isn’t explicitly an engagement. Can any of this be translated into days and hours per week?

Imagine barely working part time, having a fully staffed house, and using 'we get by with only one full time nanny' as a kind of boast How do they manage! They even moved house!!