Meghan and Harry have done them the biggest favour possible. If I was extremely tin hatted, I'd suspect they were drill on the payroll being paid millions just to be the comic book baddies, letting them get away with doing the absolute minimum. They only started doing engagements this week, when the book came out. Its the middle of January. I wonder if William will give some of his newfound windfall from the Duchy of Cornwall ( which I think is also getting a windfarm windfall) to good causes or the exchequer?Especially these two, I cannot for the life of me understand why they wouldn’t want to get out working more. They’re riding a high of the Harry hate train combined with the Queens death and their new titles, and Kate especially is constantly on the front pages when she actually goes out. They should be smashing out 3/4 public engagements a week atm just for the sake of meeting loads of people who’ll likely leave the engagement with a positive opinion of them and to be in the papers smiling and looking like they’re doing something.
They count phonecalls, which can't take much time at all to organise, but go on the list as ' engagements' when no security or transport has to be arranged. They have a lot if staff to do all the organising for them. They basically have to read a cribsheet and be driven thee and back.I would be interested to see the behind the scenes of how a royal engagement is booked and approved. Presumably the various teams either approach or are approached about an engagement, consideration would be made of appropriateness and calendar bookings, approval gained from the monarch's team I assume, and then arranging security, transport and ancillary services.
I'd be keen to see what that process actually looks like and how long it takes.
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