Public engagements fallen

[rattymol]

Royal engagements have fallen from 3338 in 2014 to 2079 in 2022.
He Queen used to do more engagements even as a 90 year old, than her grandchildren.
Engagements falling by more than a third is significant. What is the point of them if they are not even going to do what they are supposed to do?

Number of public engagements is not the best/only way to measure the success of the 21st century royal family. What about social media analytics? They're going to reach many more people for much less effort that way.

We pay them a fortune so they can post photos of their family on social media?

That will be the new argument - no need to actually leave the comfort of the castle

Also much easier to manage with bot farms replacing engagement

And then they will wonder why they get booed and why the majority want rid

Walkabouts were dreamt up to try to re enagage an uninterested population.
That wheeze is failing and if the 'royals' cannot read the room re the cost of the con a nation and crowning Camilla I very much doubt they'll come up with anything to replace it

To be fair to them if I inherited huge wealth and got paid regardless I would seek to do as little 'work' as possible. For some strange reason I find Prince Edward the most pointless of them all - some sort of detoxified Prince Philip without the charisma rattling around in his 120 room mansion wondering what to do next. The ultimate spare as it were.

I understand why they don't want to do anything mundane like visiting a charity. Much nicer to go to Wimbledon and claim it as work.
But they are foolish. Support is decreasing

MrsFinkelstein you ask if people want a slimmed down monarchy. Yes if the money given to them is also reduced. But it is daylight robbery to argue you have slimmed down by doing less, but take the same amount of money.
But at the absolute minimum I would expect royal members to do at least as many engagements as an elderly woman, the queen, used to do. They don't.

There are fewer working royals to do the engagements. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Purpledalmation why do they still need to receive the same amount of money then. It is shared between working royals. Less people so surely they need less.
And why do younger members still do less engagements than the elderly queen did.

Standard issue unblinking unthinking royalist response to any criticism of the 'royals'

You're clearly not in Scotland, are you @rattymol ?

Masks were still legally required in Scotland until 18th April 2022. Many universities were online entirely in the 2021-22 session. Hospitals still demanding masks even now. Lots of language around "keeping safe" and caution etc.

So yes, 2022 still saw some restrictions because of Covid, and limiting mixing which could explain the decrease somewhat.

Masks were required in hospitals, the royals did not wear one when visiting.
But work life was back to normal. Charities were running services.
Royals were quite happy to mix at busy film premiers, but not at much smaller charity events.

Maybe stop reading the daily Mail, and this type of shit won't bother you so much.

Purpledalmation why do all the unbridled royalists have purple in their user name?
Is it all one person who name changes? Or a secret sign of some kind?

I've asked this before too!

Can't say I'm a Royal fan, but you do realise that's about 8 people working everyday? Do you work every day OP, no weekends, no holidays?

And there 365 days in a year ...

But you'd have to check how they define an engagement

A 10 min phone call has been classed as an engagement
A round of golf was an engagement

I got caught out on a thread when I accidentally used an alias by mistake and fessed up to it. Still got the scars.

@Phoebo
You don't have the 'gotcha' there that you think you do

Charles was the 'hardest working' in 2019 as he did 521 engagements

Wow - impossible based on your logic

But an average engagement is an hour and many as short as 20 mins, some just a phone call

Plus we know they have frequent long holiday breaks

Still seems reasonable? I'm surprised they do any work at all, don't think I'd bother if I had all that money

Fair enough. I think I mixed the two up as I was surprised there wasn't a custodial sentence. It basically gives to the green light to hurl missiles at anyone, rich or poor, famous or not.

I've heard it all now

You do realise that they get £350 000 000 a year for this job ?

We aren't watching the kardashians

Though I can see the similarities

Engagements include a phone call.
Lots of engagements are only for twenty or thirty minutes.
When going abroad the queen often used to have seven engagements a day.

But less working members, then surely they should get less money.

Do you also go in for conspiracy theories with your accusations against me?

I'm a very lukewarm royalist. Like the tourism aspect, like the dressing up and all the parades. The rest...take it or leave it.