Ironically this Daily Mail article is supposed to be defending Charles over the allegations about how he treats the gardeners on Highgrove Estate. But the article simply reveals more about how badly Charles treats staff.
"Of course, stories about Charles as a demanding, pernickety fusspot – together with a lavish, pampered lifestyle – are not new. Over the decades, his relentless pace led to a high turnover of senior advisers whom he exhausted with round-the-clock demands. He would phone at all hours, oblivious to any separation between personal and professional life. One aide told me that over three years Charles was the first person he spoke to in the morning and the last person at night – and this aide was married!
As thoughts occurred to him, he would jot them down, even if in bed or during meals, and expect them to be acted upon. Princess Diana found all this activity annoying and bewildering. But while he is a much calmer person thanks to a happier second marriage, some things haven’t changed. He can still be testy. The absence of a favourite table decoration for a dinner with friends can, says one source, ‘see him going off the deep end’."
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Interesting how specific those examples are, instead of the “makes grown men cry” used for so many different women in the family.
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I’m not trying to defend this management practice as ideal, but I’ve had bosses like this who favored real-time communication of assignments, and they all were pretty clear that the ideas didn’t need to be acted upon outside of work hours. (When I manage others I jot down ideas at all hours but keep communication to work hours.)
Also *very* striking how similar these descriptions of his work style are to the accusations we saw made about Meghan’s work style, which I recall being described as a kind of weird and tyrannical American workaholism.
My goal today is to work the term “persnickity fusspot” into a work conversation.
When’s the investigation?
Waiting for the investigation
LOL. Charles, Andrew, Edward and William are all nightmare babies to deal with but only the biracial woman got a bullying investigation for [checks notes] sending emails and extremely vague behaviours that were “bad” but unspecific.
What’s the definition of ‘high turnover’ of staff when it’s icw Charjes?
From what I recall from other reporting, most of his staff are long lasting in post.
They seem to be saying as well that he is no longer at that pace (noting he’s calmer since his second marriage – which was 20 years ago)
Didn’t he once rip a sink off a wall because he dropped a cufflink?
I’ve heard Andy is just as bad.
I used to work with someone who was previously a tea lady at BP – sometime in the 2000s. She looooved the Queen but made an absolute stink face about Charles and said he was very snobby to the staff. No real tea (I was a teenager and had zero interest in the Royals lol). But man, she loathed him.
Love how these people can’t help but take a swipe at Diana, who hasn’t been married to Charles for decades, while also bolstering Camilla without even naming her. See, he was right to treat Diana horribly! It is good his second wife would gargle his balls in public without even asking why, like a *proper* royal wife should do. Such tiresome, petty little assholes, still trying to smear Diana decades after her death.
Charles seems fussy as hell. I’ve always wondered if he has some sort of disorder (as someone who has one herself and has to fight being fussy about it daily). Not that that’s an excuse to treat people this way.
(Yes, I’m aware the disorder is probably entitlement lol but it seems almost pathological with him.)
Tom Bower goes into a lot of this in this “Charles” book
They all sound like nightmares to work for
I knew he’d throw shit at people (both Diana and Paul Burrell on separate occasions), but not to this level.
“Demanding, persnickety fusspot.” Wake up babes, a new flair just dropped.
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