From meat cutter to stamp keeper: the unusual tasks of Queen Elizabeth II's employees
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Being the monarch of a country is not an easy task and does not leave much time to perform the household chores that someone else would carry out in their daily life. For this reason, the Queen Elizabeth II , President of the United Kingdom, has 1, . . What are the tasks? Here we tell you.
Although it seems crazy, in the protocol of royalty the The monarch is forbidden to cut her own food , so in the palace there is a person in charge of doing it for her. That way, the piece is ready to eat on your plate; This post is named after Grand Carver.
For Queen Elizabeth II there is nothing worse than suffering from foot pain caused by a tight shoe during some formal event. For this reason, a person with the same foot size as the queen is in charge of walking her shoes through the corridors of the palace so that she does not suffer.
Following the line of maintaining a neat and responsible image, Buckingham Palace has two people who are dedicated to winding up the 350 clocks that are in said enclosure. The post has existed for centuries and they do it once a week to keep all the clocks synchronized and on the corresponding time. The queen can never be late!
Another of the unusual tasks performed under the Queen’s mandate are lobby sweepers (who polish 5 times a day) and a stamp keeper. This last job was created by Elizabeth II after her father, George VI, died and left behind a huge collection of stamps. stamps. This in order that they are not in danger and are kept in good condition despite the passing of the years.
Last but not least, there are the table polishers, who are solely in charge of maintaining everything in the palace. According to some former palace workers, these are so long that employees walk on them with papers on their feet.
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