While it is likely that secretaries, housekeepers, chefs, chauffeurs, gardeners etc. will be kept on, some of the queen's more personal staff may be made redundant or choose to leave the household voluntarily, such as her footmen and dressers.
The former personal assistant will move to a home gifted to her by King Charles III to honour his late mother's promises. According to the Mail Online, Her Majesty ensured that Kelly would stay at a grace-and-favour home after her passing, as recognition of their friendship and Kelly's years of dedicated service.
It includes meals and a salary adjustment as part of the job requirements. According to the London Living Wage, which is equivalent to about £21,000 a year, the Palace pays its employees around £21,000 per year, while full-time UK employees earned around £31,285 in 2021.
King Charles III
As soon as Queen Elizabeth dies, Prince Charles will become king. He is permitted to choose his own name, and is expected to become King Charles III. At this stage, a meeting of the Accession Council will take place at St James' Palace and all formalities will take place.
Roles at Buckingham Palace include such rarities as a flagman and a fendersmith responsible for upkeep of the royal chimney fenders. While there will seemingly be a purge at Clarence House and among the personal staff, the vast majority of employees at the royal palaces will remain in post.
While it is likely that secretaries, housekeepers, chefs, chauffeurs, gardeners etc. will be kept on, some of the queen's more personal staff may be made redundant or choose to leave the household voluntarily, such as her footmen and dressers.
Loyal Buckingham Palace staff are braced for redundancy as it emerges many job contracts are written to automatically expire six months after a monarch's death. Royal household staff face further job losses after Buckingham Palace workers claimed they signed contracts which expire six months after the Queen died.
Before that, the Queen's coffin will lie in state at Westminster Hall in London for four days, and members of the public will be allowed to visit. On the day of the funeral, schools and businesses will close, there will be a two-minute national silence, and the Stock Exchange will close.
The bulk of the late sovereign's personal wealth will pass to Charles intact, without the British government getting a slice. The real royal wealth -- the Crown Estate lands and the Royal Collection of art and jewellery, plus official residences and the Royal Archives -- is held by the monarchy as an institution.
The Queen will be buried within the King George VI Memorial Chapel, where she joins King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and her sister Princess Margaret. The coffin of the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9 2021, is currently in a section of the chapel known as the Quire.
Look no further: Prince William's multi-million dollar salary has just been revealed. According to the Duchy of Cornwall estate's 2023 annual report, Prince William received a private income of nearly £6 million this year—which converts to more than $7.5 million.
According to The New York Times, King Charles III made a profit of USD 28 million in 2021 alone from the Duchy of Cornwall when he still held it as a prince. His official salary for the same period was just over USD 1.1 million.
But the highest-paid palace role is the keeper of the privy purse. The keeper, who can be paid around £180,000 a year, is responsible for managing the royal family's many expenses while...
Clothing that was of less historical significance is likely set to be given to family members — and her granddaughters and great-granddaughters could be in for a windfall. “Items from the Queen's personal collection would have been passed to her family members with each chosen personally by Her Majesty.
One of those dressmakers, Angela Kelly, is well-known to royal fans in her own right. Kelly's formal title is Personal Advisor to Her Majesty (The Queen's Wardrobe), which means Kelly is the curator and designer of the Queen's clothing, but she is also a close confidant and friend to the Queen.
The Telegraph noted that she, along with dresser Jacqui Meakin, are doing some “style tweaks” to her wardrobe as a part of her royal “rebranding.” Britain's Queen Camilla attended a reception for the inaugural Queen's Reading Room Literary Festival at Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey Surrey, on June 11, 2023.
So what will Prince Harry inherit from Queen Elizabeth? Representatives told Forbes in 2021 that Harry was not a beneficiary of any of the $100 million left to the royal family by his great-grandmother, the Queen Mother.
So yeah: Coins with the Queen's face on them will still be usable—as confirmed by the Royal Mint (which makes British coins) on its website. As they put it, “Yes, all United Kingdom circulating coins bearing portraits of Queen Elizabeth II remain legal tender and in circulation.
As for the Royal Mint, every coin it creates from January 2023 onward will bear Charles' image, starting with 9.6 million 50-pence coins. Tender featuring Elizabeth will be valid for the foreseeable future, and will circulate with the new currency.
As Hicks explained, Elizabeth knew even then that she could never abdicate, because doing so is inconsistent with the religious doctrine of the Church of England.
If the Queen dies in the night, her death won't be announced until 8am. If you turn on the TV then, you'll be greeted with a portrait of her, along with the national anthem in the same fashion as when Princess Diana died in 1997.
The final act of pageantry before the Queen's casket was lowered into the Royal Vault was the Lord Chamberlain “breaking” a wand that he then placed on the Queen's coffin. The wand will be buried with her.
Some 800 people, including members of the Queen's Household and Windsor estate staff, will attend the committal service afterwards at 4pm in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
She was the Head of State, Head of Nation, Head of Commonwealth, Head of the Church of England, Head of the Armed Forces and Patron of Charities. Her calendar included events such as visiting charities, hosting visiting Heads of State and meeting foreign ambassadors and high commissioners based in the UK.
There are three sources of funding for The Queen, or officials of the Royal Household acting on Her Majesty's behalf, in both a public and private capacity. These are: the Sovereign Grant, the Privy Purse and The Queen's personal wealth and income.