Britain’s Queen Elizabeth is reportedly struggling so much with staff shortages at London’s Buckingham Palace she may have to look to recruit from overseas.
The monarch is having trouble attracting and retaining butlers and the palace is advertising for employees for the fifth time this year.
Sources claim poor pay and cramped living conditions for servants is putting off many British workers as they can earn much more from private employers.
New recruitment laws mean the queen has to open vacancies to everyone, including new EU nations like Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
A former butler told Britain’s Sunday Express newspaper: ‘For anyone who has just arrived off a coach at London’s Victoria station from Bucharest or Warsaw and wants accommodation it’s a great job.
‘But it’s no surprise there’s a shortage of English people rushing to apply. The pay is rotten and the hours are long and you have to be prepared to move wherever the royal family go to Windsor, in Berkshire, Balmoral in Scotland, or Sandringham, in Norfolk.’ The ex-servant also claimed there was a big hierarchy and nobody was allowed to mix.
He added: ‘There’s a strict hierarchy, with separate dining rooms for different levels of staff, so the footmen and maids don’t mix with the administrators.’
© bangshowbiz.biz
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