A former courtier spoke to The Daily Beast, saying: “Serving the royals can be a precarious business, as Queen Elizabeth’s staff found out when she died.”
“Royal staff are not exactly twiddling their thumbs, but there is never going to be the usual volume of business to attend to if your principals can’t do royal jobs. For instance, it takes dozens of people to plan and execute a foreign tour, and those have all been canceled.
“Hiatuses like this come as a very stark reminder of the extremely contingent nature of their roles.”
A friend of the king disagrees with the above, saying: “The king’s people are kept incredibly busy and I suspect if they only have a chance to catch up they will be jolly happy.”
