King Charles - disquiet at Highgrove & the gardeners’ exodus - SUNDAY TIMES INVESTIGATION

[vera99]

Murdoch is growing bolder in his dotage — first with Trump, and now with another bombshell investigation into the grasping, stagnant, and catastrophically out-of-touch Windsors. And yet we keep pumping more public money into this so-called dysfunctional family.

What you need to know

King’s demands, staff shortages and low pay led to gardener exodus at Highgrove

Royal charity which runs gardens told to offer mental health support after formal investigation

Charles has lost 11 of 12 garden staff since 2022 including two head gardeners who quit within a year

Monarch said of one worker: “Do not put that man in front of me again”

After Ukraine invasion King proposed plugging staff shortages with war refugees or the elderly

At one point half of staff were on minimum wage

https://archive.ph/fspT3#selection-1495.0-1501.155

Yes they probably do it for a year for their CV and then move on.

Obviously not, but they are not recruiting for jobs requiring comparable skills.

There you have it. One of the richest families in the world pays shockingly low wages. Yet still people come on here to defend them.

Obviously not, but they are not recruiting for jobs requiring comparable skills.

They definitely use the same argument. Plenty of people get annoyed that tax payers have to prop up employers low wages. I think the Royals should lead by example personally.

Yet still people come on here to defend them.

I find it utterly bizarre but fascinating

Absolutely

And there are tales that W is just like him when it comes to entitlement and attention as well, not just H.

I told you he was a twat.

I imagine most of what you say in private to your lover is cringe too. It was never meant for public consumption any more than your intimate conversations are. And the poster got wrong about his wishing to be a tampon, so point proven.

All these comments yet no one has brought up the point that many of these people resigned because of a change in their working situation - previously employed by Charles who would put his hand in his own pockets for things needed but now employed under the Charity scheme.

exactly, there are always two sides to every story

What is stopping them working somewhere else that pays more?

I used to have a boss who would write to you on different coloured paper. You immediately knew if it was a telling off or not by the colour. 😂

People don't actually seem to have read the whole article .

paying them a good salary or he wants to hire refugees so he can pay them less?

This.
The timelines tell the real story.

Come off it. Not even Tesco's argues that working at Tesco's confers particular prestige or skills. The fact is that Highgrove is a well-known garden and, in gardening circles, people know that gardeners who have worked there and held down a job must be decent quality and will have learned good skills and practices. That will make it easier to get more prestige and better paid jobs in future.

@vera99 has cherry picked the bits to create maximum, republican outrage. They are all frothing over their avocado toast this morning.

This is the point. They will have learned excellent, organic gardening skills, very transferable.

Is that what you get from a willingness to hire refugees? A desire to ecploit?
Oh my god. Usually it's a positive to hire the marginalised.

Perhaps they are a bit overworked and underpaid, The local council gardeners make 13.70 an hour and they just strim everything back and cut grass all day.

I think if you are paying min wage for what is relatively hard physically graft you aren’t also going to get someone with great horticultural knowledge.

To maintain an established garden you really need people with experience and an eye for detail which you are unlikely to find for min wage.

Pays people minimum wage remember, and a lot of their time is spent, hand picking greenfly off plants as pesticide is banned. This is the King's entitled nature when the cameras are not rolling. Remember the pen incident?

I’m not!

“The elderly” were definitely expected to be volunteers (expressly stated in the article). Not sure about refugees.

I don't blame him, I hate bad grammar too! Bless him he's old school. He pays people to garden and manage other gardeners. They should come up to scratch or stop bleating!

He was asking his Highgrove staff -already stretched, overworked and underpaid - to work on his private property and therefore take on responsibilities beyond their remit.
Not a good look.