queen elizabeth ii employs an
astonishing 1,200 people just to keep
the royal household running the
positions held by her staffers vary from
cooks to chauffeurs but as it turns out
quite a few people on the payroll are
doing jobs that seem well delightfully
bizarre the master of the horse position
goes way back to the year 1342 horse &
Hound while this position would have
been of importance in centuries past
today the job is an honorary one the
outlets explained the master is no
longer involved with the day-to-day
running of the Royal stables but still
makes inspections and rides in
ceremonial uniform at state occasions I
think she also felt that the water
responsibility on her to maintain the
bloodlines that have been established
over many generations in 1999 the Queen
appointed Lord Sam vesti former chairman
of Cheltenham Racecourse in
Gloucestershire as the new master of the
horse he is the senior officer in charge
of the Royal stables as well as the
horses and carriages belonging to the
Queen the Telegraph reported in his role
he attends important ceremonial
occasions when the sovereign rides on
horseback or travels in horse-drawn
carriage such as art trooping the colour
and the State Opening of parliament
Stuart parven who manages the Queen's
wardrobe revealed that there's a staffer
tasked with breaking in the Queen's
shoes to do this the employee dons a
pair of socks and walks around the
carpeted areas of Buckingham Palace
Parvin told The Evening Standard in 2017
the shoes have to be immediately
comfortable the Queen can never say I am
uncomfortable I can't walk anymore under
the kellian sort of unsung heroine of
British fashion in her book the other
side of the coin dress make it to the
Queen Angela Kelley spilled even more
details about the strange practice
writing as has been reported a lot in
the press a service person wears in her
majesty shoes to ensure that they are
comfortable and that she is always good
to go and yes I am that person we share
the same shoe size it makes the most
sense this way up until the mid-1800s
the head of the royal family travelled
via the River Thames back then 48
staffers dubbed royal Waterman were
responsible for rowing the royal barges
in order to trance
the sovereign but during his reign King
Edward the seventh cut the number by
half the Royal Family's office states
the sovereign today still retains 24
royal water men under the command of the
Queen's barge master thereby continuing
one of the most ancient appointments in
the royal household this is quite a big
thing very prestigious and a lovely
tradition as well but while this
ceremonial team remains on staff there
isn't exactly a day you need for them in
the rare instance when the Royals travel
the Thames the Royal wolterman are
tasked with accompanying the family of
the more than 1,000 people working for
the monarch one is the astronomer royal
this position first came to be in the
17th century with the Royal museum's
Greenwich explaining the first
astronomer royal was charged with
drawing up a map of the heavens with
enough accuracy to be reliable for
navigation although the job led to a
great number of scientific discoveries
the position is mostly ceremonial today
as of 2020 astrophysicist Martin Rees
holds the honorary position and is thus
a member of the royal household my
professional interest has been in trying
to understand cosmic phenomena and how
our universe has evolved but despite his
credentials working as the Queen's
astronomer doesn't exactly pay well
Reiss receives a steep end of just about
a hundred and twenty nine dollars per
year the Queen has her very own composer
dubbed the master of the Queen's music
in the past this position was a lifelong
commitment but these days the royal
family officially states that the terms
have been limited to ten years in order
to allow more musicians to get involved
BBC news explained there are no fixed
duties involved the master may compose
pieces for the Royal or state occasions
while this is largely a ceremonial job
today
those who've been appointed are uniquely
talented in 2004 the Queen chose
renowned British conductor and composer
Sir Peter Maxwell Davis who formally
headed both the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic a
decade later the Queen appointed the
first ever female master of the Queen's
music Judith we are a former opera
writer and resident composer with the
city of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
keeper of the Royal philatelic
collection has to be one of the oddest
titles to whole
appointed by the Queen the keeper is
entrusted with maintaining her personal
stamp collection before being chosen for
this position in 2003 Michel sefie was
already working for the Royals as deputy
keeper he explained his job telling the
times the job as keeper is part-time and
the commitment is two days a week my
commitment to the British philatelic
Trust is the same if one wanted to spend
three four five six or even seven days a
week in the stamp room one could as
there is always lots to do and it's a
big job because the Queen's got a ton of
stamps stamps acts as a global either
what's important to the people of that
nation and in this country all the
biggest royal events commemorating
Sophie revealed to the outlets the red
albums of king george v amounts to
around seventeen thousand five hundred
album pages the blue albums of King
George the sixth will also contain many
thousands of album sheets very serious
dedicated philatelist it is a tremendous
privilege since 1843 the royal household
has employed the piper of the sovereign
according to hello magazine this
musician plays the bagpipes at the
Queen's pleasure the piper is also
tasked with playing the bagpipes every
weekday for fifteen minutes beginning at
9:00 a.m. as a wake-up call for the
Queen the Express reported the sound of
the lone Piper has played under the
Queen's bedroom window every weekday
since she took up her position on the
throne although an alarm clock would
arguably work just fine the Queen
continues to employ a piper of the
sovereign as a 2020 pipe major David
Rogers holds the title and it's a
daunting one former Piper Gordon Webster
said he had to memorize hundreds of
songs during his tenure claiming the
Queen didn't like tea a certain extent
that year repeated tunes every day
probably had a bit seven eight hundred
tunes under my belt and they're all up
here if you spot a swan in England
there's a good chance it belongs to the
Queen since the 12th century according
to the family's official site the crown
has maintained the right to claim
ownership of any unmarked mute swan
swimming in open waters all swans in the
United Kingdom can belong to the Queen
but she mainly exercises this right on
the River Thames
in the past swans were considered a
delicacy and were served at Royal
banquets
but today the royal family no longer
eats the birds instead the Queen helps
protect them while the Queen could claim
any unmarked swans throughout the
country she focuses on one stretch of
the Thames by way of her swan task force
my name is David Barber and I look after
the swans wherever the Queen exercises
her royal property fright this one
marker leads his crew of Swan uppers
each year on a quote iconic five-day
journey upriver upon spotting the birds
as the procedure goes they carefully
position their boats around the swans
lift them or up them from the water and
check their health the practice of
hiring a food taster to test for poison
is an ancient one Roman Emperor Claudius
famously had a taster who was later
suspected of murder and Claudius died by
poisoning although it has not been
confirmed by the Secret Service it's
likely that American presidents still
abide by the practice and the same
appears to be true for the Queen
although Buckingham Palace has not
confirmed reports of an official food
taster chef Kevin Dunne Dhin claims to
have observed the custom firsthand the
chef once prepared a salmon and lamb
dinner for the Queen but said she didn't
try the meal until after her taste
tester sampled it Dandan told People
magazine I produce two plates one for
him and one for her and he tasted before
it was served to her one does not simply
earn the title of grand Carver of
England rather one is born into it
even if you're the go-to person at
Thanksgiving there's no hope of becoming
the Queen's Carver unless you're of
noble blood the Financial Times reported
in the past skilled Carver's would serve
the monarch slices of meat that were a
uniform shape and thickness and which
was still hot today the Earl of Denby
haunts the sole position as grand Carver
of England and is responsible for you
guessed it
carving meat for the royal family
although this may sound like a strange
job it wouldn't have been in years past
chef and accomplished carver mark Hicks
told the outlet that the practice has
become a lost art just as the title of
grant carver of England is passed down
through generations
Hicks misses a time when the skill was
quote proudly passed from father to son
the royal family has been making an
effort to keep up with the times the
Queen even posted on Instagram for the
first time in March 2019 but they still
uphold centuries-old traditions
never mind cell phones the Queen has
roughly 450 analog clocks ticking at
Windsor Castle alone the Express
reported that her longtime clock maker
Steve Davidson even developed repetitive
strain injury in his wrist after nearly
two decades spent cleaning preparing and
winding the Queen's clocks pages of
honor have perhaps one of the simplest
jobs in the royal household which is
appropriate since they're kids
according to the Daily Mail pages are
tasked with carrying the Queen's train
during royal ceremonies and hold office
for two to three years between the ages
of 12 and 15 but not just anyone gets
the job they are the sons of the royal
families friends and their duties are
tougher than they seem one of the
Queen's pageboys even fainted while she
was giving a speech back in 2014 my
government will introduce a bill to
bolster investment in infrastructure and
reform planning or to improve economic
competitiveness a source told the outlet
the poor boy had been standing up for
some time in uncomfortable and
claustrophobic clothing the important
thing to remember is that he was just
doing his duty for the Queen the Queen
has essentially amassed
a museums worth of art and according to
the Royal Collection trust it is
possibly one of the largest collections
anywhere in the world with around 7,000
oil paintings and 3,000 miniatures in
2004 the Queen appointed desmond shore
tailor as surveyor of the queen's
pictures he told the trust it is a huge
honor to be chosen as surveyor of the
queen's pictures the royal collection
has a great tradition of scholarship and
outstanding exhibitions and it will be
an immense privilege to be part of it
you know you've really made it once
you've added an uncle sculptor to your
payroll in 2008 the Queen bestowed
artist Alexander Stoddart with a
mouthful of a title Her Majesty's
sculptor in ordinary in Scotland
according to BBC News star art is
considered the leading monumental
sculptor throughout Scotland still he
was surprised by his appointment
told the outlet I am perfectly
thunderstruck to receive it I should
hope to be able to match the
expectations implicit in this
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