Osipi
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When the office was set up for William and Harry and the Royal Foundation was established, there were only the two of them and neither one of them were anywhere close to being full time working royals. It made sense to have a joint office and staff. At the time.
The years pass and both William and Harry are now married and have/expecting children. They, along with their wives, are now in the position to be full time working royals for the "Firm" and both men are clearly defining their roles as the soft transition from the Queen to Charles becomes more and more evident. The Royal Foundation has grown immensely and even within that Foundation, the projects are individualized somewhat (William with United for Wildlife and Harry with Invictus Games for example) although they do all work together as the "fab four". Their roles are growing and maturing. We see William following in the footsteps of his grandmother and his father and we see Harry forging his own path with the core (as it seems right now) being the Commonwealth.
Many times a company is founded as a single business but as the years pass, the company expands and grows and subsidiary companies are born to handle specific things. Perhaps similar to Skype Communications being a subsidiary of Microsoft. This is what seems to be happening and with the households and the staff becoming individualized to both William and Harry, its better all the way around to be able to put the focus on each one's needs and plans.
The British royal family is not one to do things on a whim, or haphazardly or just because they can. There's a lot of thought and assessment done years in advance to when it actually seems to be a need. This move to separate the household and staff may have been seen as a necessity a while ago and is just now getting to the stage of being implemented.
Cost wise, I can only see it as being a solution to allow both households to actually run more efficiently. As the saying goes, too many cooks spoil the broth and when one staff is handling the multitude of different things and different ways William and Harry are going to have their roles progress into the future, to me, it would get more and more confusing. Good focus by a staff makes things so much easier all the way around.
All in all, what it tells me is that this generation of full time working royals are settling into their roles and the way they're going to go into the future very, very well and do their grandmother proud.
The years pass and both William and Harry are now married and have/expecting children. They, along with their wives, are now in the position to be full time working royals for the "Firm" and both men are clearly defining their roles as the soft transition from the Queen to Charles becomes more and more evident. The Royal Foundation has grown immensely and even within that Foundation, the projects are individualized somewhat (William with United for Wildlife and Harry with Invictus Games for example) although they do all work together as the "fab four". Their roles are growing and maturing. We see William following in the footsteps of his grandmother and his father and we see Harry forging his own path with the core (as it seems right now) being the Commonwealth.
Many times a company is founded as a single business but as the years pass, the company expands and grows and subsidiary companies are born to handle specific things. Perhaps similar to Skype Communications being a subsidiary of Microsoft. This is what seems to be happening and with the households and the staff becoming individualized to both William and Harry, its better all the way around to be able to put the focus on each one's needs and plans.
The British royal family is not one to do things on a whim, or haphazardly or just because they can. There's a lot of thought and assessment done years in advance to when it actually seems to be a need. This move to separate the household and staff may have been seen as a necessity a while ago and is just now getting to the stage of being implemented.
Cost wise, I can only see it as being a solution to allow both households to actually run more efficiently. As the saying goes, too many cooks spoil the broth and when one staff is handling the multitude of different things and different ways William and Harry are going to have their roles progress into the future, to me, it would get more and more confusing. Good focus by a staff makes things so much easier all the way around.
All in all, what it tells me is that this generation of full time working royals are settling into their roles and the way they're going to go into the future very, very well and do their grandmother proud.
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