Swathes of royal workers are the potential of the dole queue. Good factor they have a union to fall again on.
It was through the St Giles’ Cathedral service for the departed queen that the information was dumped on dozens of Clarence Home workers: the workforce, a few of whom had labored for Charles for many years, had been dealing with potential redundancy.
The queen’s workers, a few of whom served her for greater than 50 years, will face comparable fears for his or her employment as soon as Charles heads for Buckingham Palace.
It received us pondering: what sort of payout would you get for many years of royal service?