You’re not going to find wealth by working for the Windsors. Not at least if you do their cleaning. An announcement published by the Royal House causes a scandal in the British press, which was spotted Point. Sovereign Charles III is therefore looking for someone to clean the royal palace of Holyrood, in Edinburgh, where he spends one week a year, for the modest sum of 12 pounds per hour, or 14 euros. Except that this is the strict minimum wage in Scotland.
That’s not all: it’s compulsory part-time work, four days a week, for twenty hours. You will also have to work on Sunday. Enough to obtain a total of 1,120 euros at best. Sure, the position offers some perks since you’re fed and cleared, but still. The ad is written in such a way that we are also justified in wondering if we are not being taken kindly for idiots and idiots: “This is an opportunity to use your enthusiasm and your interest for the hospitality in order to offer the exceptional. »
Certainly, having the British royal family as an employer on your CV is impressive. But that has not convinced the harsh press across the Channel, who point out that Charles III’s personal fortune is 1.2 billion euros. In 2015, under his mother’s reign, employees had already gone on strike to obtain salary increases. This shouldn’t really improve because the new king has already announced that savings are on the agenda. He could separate himself from 20% of the family’s employees, and that’s a lot of people: 1,000 people worked there under Elizabeth II.