Mirror.One holiday, Charles left a tin of salmon, and another year Harrold received a salt and pepper grinder tied with a ribbon.“I just thought it was so bizarre because you don’t expect those little things.
It shows that they’ve got that fun, practical side to them,” the ex-butler said.Charles and his wife, Queen Camilla, would also send Christmas cards to them — and eventually “actual proper gifts.”“[I would get] things like tea cups and saucers or whiskey glasses.
One year I got a lovely water jug,” he recalled. (Prince William and Prince Harry, for their part, would give out “special” holidays memos to the employees.)The late Queen Elizabeth II treated the staff a bit differently.
Throughout her reign, she would give each employee a helping of Christmas pudding alongside a personalized holiday card.According to royal biographer Brian Hoey, they’d also receive a gift card with a value reflecting how long they had worked for her.
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