Will The Staff, Said To Number 100, Sacked By Cr...

[sandyRoe]

... be now reduced to poverty?
I imagine many will be wrinkled old retainers who know no other life apart from service in the royal household.

[bednobs]

i dont think they are sacked, rather redundant.

[sandyRoe]

'Let go', then, but still out of a job.

[bednobs]

they surely must have known that the queen wouldnt live forever though?

[rockyracoon]

I doubt there are any ‘jobs for life’ in this day and age.

I’m sure, with the experience of working for the Queen, they’ll be gainfully employed quite quickly.

[sandyRoe]

They were employed by Charles.

[Peter Pedant]

laid off- - the ones who were employed, "for the life of...."
[not their own life clearly]

apparently they never thought.....

The Royal Household ( employees) do have a pension scheme as is stipulated by law: https://www.royal.uk/rewards-and-benefits-1

for the little old ladies and wrinkled scrota what have been laid off

[Peter Pedant]

any ‘jobs for life’
sozza racky - these were

[rockyracoon]

“ They were employed by Charles.”

Same thing, now, I suppose. Though, I still stand by my ‘jobs for life comment’

[sandyRoe]

'Put not your faith in princes', should be the motto above the servants hall wherever they go.