I don't know - it seems to be a no-win situation to me. The public's attitude in contradictory.
Have a big RF undertaking lots of duties and engagements -the the public are up in arms complaining about paying for all of these people to carry out events.
Have a smaller RF - then the public are up in arms complaining about why nobody is doing all of the Royal work.
Perhaps we need to define the scope of what the RF should do? Also possibly differentiate between the "figurehead" royal roles - for example patronages of organizations and charities that could be done be non fulltime working royals and the key projects that require longterm inputs.
William should talk to his Scandi counterparts about how they have coped with their younger siblings removed from ongoing royal roles - it's happened in Denmark and Sweden in the last 5 years
I think your suggestions are very good and much needed.
The senior royals had a 'Way Forward' group that apparently talked about all this and made plans. Out of which the king's plan to 'slim down' the monarchy emerged.
That's proved to be, let's be honest, a failure.
There needs to be a thorough, realistic, dynamic appraisal and assessment of RF role, functions, staffing needs, resourcing, contingency planning - all the things that would be looked at and updated periodically in any public service. (I'm not sure their courtiers etc have the necessary knowledge/experience - many of them come from the military, which isn't a public service, and haven't run businesses or major public services. This appraisal should be informed by opinions from the public, public services and bodies, charities etc etc.
Now's the worst time to embark on such a project. But it's clear that the senior royals have to enrol and properly train their junior members from young to take up public roles or to be able to step in as necessary.
There should never be any such thing as 'spares' which is a truly terrible designation for any human being. It's been horribly demonstrated (Andy and Haz) that things can go terribly wrong when younger/junior members are demoralised, minimised and left to their own devices.
Each family member should have a designated role and training from birth with an option to become a private citizen when they finish their education.
As I see it, it's tough
tit if they don't like the rules...there's always a price to pay for the random good fortune of immense status and wealth. Just as there's always a price to pay for being born into less favoured circumstances.
Realistically, the vast majority of us humans have restricted choices in life unless we're exceptionally talented. We don't have the luxury of having enough money to saunter through life with eyewatering levels of entitlement; nor do our families cover up for us and create projects for us to vanity figurehead.
Yep. I'd sort them out!! (I'm not expecting a call anytime though!)