Housekeeping Assistant Wanted, Salary around $A28,400 per year. The job advertisement appears on the Royal Household website. Applicants will be ‘committed to achieving exceptional standards of service provision’ and will rub shoulders with the Queen and Prince Philip.
Running the royal bath is just one of the required duties - the successful applicant will have to put the plug in, turn on the tap and check the temperature when the bath is full. Other duties include packing and unpacking for guests of the Royal household, ironing their clothes, helping them dress, taking care of their jewellery and arranging tea and breakfast trays to be brought to their room. The position will be based at Buckingham Palace but will move to other royal residences such as Balmoral and Sandringham during the year.
The 40-hour-a-week job requires someone with a ‘friendly, polite and approachable disposition and an ability to be discrete and maintain confidentiality’. As the modest starting salary indicates, the job is near the bottom of the Palace hierarchy.
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