Queen Camilla could be behind King Charles’s plans to axe staff in a major shakeup, a royal biographer has claimed.
King Charles III is allegedly drawing up plans to scale back up to 20 percent of his middle-management staff.
Queen Camilla and the reigning monarch reportedly believe that they employ too many staff members who carry out similar tasks, according to the Mail.
But royal biographer Angela Levin has claimed that Camilla is pushing for this the hardest as she typically works with far fewer staff.
She told GB News host Patrick Christys: “I think it’s a very interesting thing. The Sovereign Grant is £86.3million which the Government gives them, which means each of us have to pay £1.29.
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“I think this is to do with the King marrying someone who isn’t from royal stock.
“I know Camilla, I wrote her biography. She isn’t someone who is very flash and wants loads of staff hanging around her, she is used to running her own home, and she still does to a certain extent.
“I think she feels that it is a waste, and she doesn’t need all those people. I’m sure Charles is used to it.”
According to royal expert Robert Jobson, staff cuts are a near certainty but Charles wants things done his way.
He exclusively told Daily Express US: “He’s [King Charles] now the boss, he’s in charge.
“And he wants certain things to be done his way. So the scaling back I think will be done on staff, where you don’t need so many people. They’ve got lots of people who are assistants to assistants to assistants in the royal household. And they will try to cut that right back.
“And they are I think now we’ve had the period of transition, and the crowning with the Coronation, both in Britain and in England and then Scotland, it’s now time to show that he can start doing that. And I think that is what is going to happen.”
It is understood Charles has long wanted to streamline and modernise the monarchy with the reported cuts expected to hit Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, Sandringham and Balmoral in particular.
The monarch is said to understand that in order to achieve a leaner set-up there will have to be reductions in staffing. He is also said to be acutely aware of the huge financial burden the Royal Household places on taxpayers.
An insider told Mail Online: “There is a real feeling that the staffing at all the palaces is too heavy.”
They added that there are far too many “assistants to assistants” with Charles and Camilla preferring to pay people proper wages top to bottom but with fewer people.
Charles and Camilla are said to have asked why there are chefs for them and others for staff when there could be one set of kitchen staff for everybody, the insider claimed.
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