This coming week is Holyrood Week in Scotland, and King Charles and Camilla arrived in Scotland early. On Saturday, they attended the opening ceremony of the Scottish Parliament and Charles gave a speech. Charles also wore a lehenga, which he likes very much. Prince Philip was also like this, always prepared to wear a kilt to public events in Scotland. I hope everyone knows that the Windsor tradition of wearing a kilt ended with Charles. Charles’s heir doesn’t care. Prince William finds it all very embarrassing – the kilt, the hat, the cloak, going to church.
Anyway, throughout Holyrood week, everyone can expect to see a lot of Charles and Camilla. They’ll open up the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, they’ll host at least one garden party, and they’ll have a few low-key walks to highlight local crafts and culture. People Magazine Makes Big Achievement It was Charles’ first visit since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s office confirmed they will visit the UK in July and deadbeat grandfather Charles will see his two ginger grandchildren for the first time in four years.
Meanwhile, journalists are still looking at all the financial documents released by Buckingham Palace last week. Charles released information about his income taxes, and as it turns out, he also released a report about the demographics within the palace, meaning the gender split and still-nonexistent diversity of the czars.
Buckingham Palace has today opened its annual accounts sharing how the monarchy spent public money in the last financial year as well as its performance in other areas. And one of the things that has emerged is the fact that it has missed its own diversity targets when it comes to the number of employees from ethnic minority backgrounds.
Keeper of the Privy Purse James Chalmers – the king’s personal treasurer – told reporters today, “As we shape a household for the future, we have also sought to ensure that our workforce properly reflects the society it serves.” “We are therefore proud that the gender balance of our workforce is broadly equal, with 54 per cent of employees being female and the average gender pay gap is only 4.3 per cent, which is 8 per cent lower than the national average. However, we must be honest that some challenges remain. Our proportion of ethnic minority employees is around 12 per cent of our total workforce, which is 2 percentage points below our stated target of 14 per cent for this year. This is a disappointment.”
The Palace report said the decline in ethnic minority representation among staff was due to a combination of factors, including the fact that staff turnover had slowed in the last year. Reports say the Palace now intends to move towards a long-term target of having 18% of staff from ethnic minority backgrounds. It did not put any time limit on this.
James Chalmers said, “We recognize that more work needs to be done to improve the diversity of our workforce, and is already being done.” “To that end, we have raised our long-term ambitions to build a workforce of the future in line with UK census figures for people from ethnic minority backgrounds, supported by a refreshed inclusivity and diversity strategy designed to accelerate sustained and targeted progress.”
Kensington Palace also released figures today which revealed that its staff are 73% female and 27% male, with 14.9% of them from ethnic minority backgrounds.
(by city and country)
Over the years, BP has covered their pathetic diversity numbers before, but they never really break down where these people of color are actually working within the home. I’m willing to bet that the 12% of “ethnic minorities” are almost entirely in junior positions and/or were assigned palace duties through the military. Same with Kensington Palace, although this seems to be the first year KP has released its own diversity numbers. Yellow-and-stale is the order of the day and both Charles and William are surrounded by old, white men with old ideas. I’m willing to bet that 73% of KP’s female employees have bosses who are also white men.
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