King Charles under scrutiny after reports of staff job cuts at former residence
Reports that up to 100 staff in the residence of Raja Charles III can lose work has attracted criticism of the British monarchy in a few days after the accession to the throne. The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday that a dozen staff at Clarence House, former Charles’s official residence, was given a notification that their work was on the telephone. The report said the notification came in the middle of a busy transition when Charles and his wife Camilla, Queen of Empress, moved to Buckingham Palace after the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday.
The public and commercial service union mentions Royals’ decisions to inform the work cutting staff during the mourning period “Nobody does not feel.” “While some changes in all households are expected, because the role in all kingdoms of change, the scale and speed at which this has been announced in extreme,” Secretary General of the Trade Union, Mark Serwotka, said. Britain is in the national mourning period until Monday, when the funeral of the state of the queen will be held.
In a statement, Clarence House said that following Charles’s accessions, household operations and camillas “had stopped” and “as required by the law, the consultation process had begun.” “Our staff have provided long and loyal services and, while some redundancy will not be avoided, we work immediately to identify the alternative role for the largest number of staff that is possible,” the statement added. The Guardian said that an unnamed Charles staff member told the newspaper that “Everyone is right -really people who are very angry seen shaken by him.” The criticism added a negative press to the 73 -year -old king after two videos showing he looked annoyed by a leaky pen and the pen holder became viral on social media in the last few days.
In one video, Charles was seen losing patience in a leaky pen when he signed a visitor book in front of the camera in Northern Ireland, where he visited on Tuesday with the last leg of his kingdom tour in four US countries. Charles sounded exclaimed, “Oh my God, I hate this!” And muttering, “I can’t stand this bloody thing every time that smells.” The video emerged after another incident related to the pen on Saturday, when the new king was seen giving a signal in resentment to his staff when a pen holder was blocking his path when he signed a document during the accession ceremony.
Charles has been under intense media supervision and has a tiring schedule since his mother’s death in Scotland on Thursday. He and Camilla flew from Scotland to London for accession ceremonies and visits to parliament to speak to the legislature, before flying back to Scotland where he walked behind the queen coffin. He then ran to northern Ireland on Tuesday and returned to London on the same night, in time for the procession of the queen coffin from the Buckingham Palace to the Westminster Hall on Wednesday.
