{"id":288957,"date":"2025-07-24T21:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288957\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:54:12","slug":"advisors-2-conditions-before-accepting-role-with-william-and-harry-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288957\/","title":{"rendered":"Advisor’s 2 conditions before accepting role with William and Harry | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former British ambassador to the USA Sir David Manning has revealed that he had two conditions when accepting a role in the Firm alongside Prince William<\/a> and Prince Harry<\/a>. The late Queen Elizabeth II, who died in 2022, reportedly wanted to make sure her grandsons were well-equipped to, when the time came, represent the monarchy overseas.<\/p>\n

Sir David, who went on to work for the Firm for a decade, was then handpicked by the late Queen<\/a>. According to royal expert Valentine Low’s book Courtiers, Sir David came to a rather unorthodox agreement with her<\/a>. Speaking of the two conditions, the author wrote: “[Sir David] Manning agreed to take on the job of adviser on two conditions: that he could do it part-time and that it was unpaid.”<\/p>\n

Discussing why he didn’t want to work full-time, he wrote that Sir David did not want to beocme “embroiled in the formal palace machinery”.<\/p>\n

As reported by the Daily Mail, the late Queen was so confident that he would make a good advisor for William and Harry that she agreed with his conditions.<\/p>\n

The late Queen was proven right with both William and Harry developing a close relationship with their advisor.<\/p>\n

Harry and William’s former private secretary – Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton – also spoke to Valentine Low about Sir David.<\/p>\n

He said: “Manning was a real confidant to the princes. He was somebody they could talk to, they could joke with. He had enormously good judgement about people.<\/p>\n

“I think they trusted him. They knew he would be very discreet. And they knew he would fight their corner.”<\/p>\n

Under his guidance, Harry and William later created the Royal Foundation – which was a “leaner, nimbler way of working, and avoided being weighed down by long-term commitments”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former British ambassador to the USA Sir David Manning has revealed that he had two conditions when accepting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,532,7710,519,13401,7711,107805,107804],"class_list":{"0":"post-288957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-prince-william","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-sir-david-manning","19":"tag-uk-royal-family","20":"tag-william-harry-advisor","21":"tag-william-harry-staff"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114910439928289473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}