{"id":315682,"date":"2025-08-03T22:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315682\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T22:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:54:13","slug":"king-charles-overwhelmed-and-underpaid-employees-quit-due-to-the-royals-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315682\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles&#8217; \u2018Overwhelmed and Underpaid\u2019 Employees Quit Due to the Royal&#8217;s Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/suggest.com\/t\/Prince-Charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a> reportedly lost nearly a dozen employees who were \u201coverwhelmed and underpaid\u201d after they all quit due to his demands. <\/p>\n<p>        Videos by Suggest<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/royal-family\/article\/king-charles-highgrove-gardening-investigation-8rs7bt2m0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> The\u00a0Sunday Times<\/a>,\u00a011 out of the royal\u2019s 12 full-time gardeners at Highgrove estate resigned within the past year amid allegations of a toxic workplace environment. <\/p>\n<p>Among those who stepped was an employee who had worked for King Charles for decades. Another employee quit when he failed his probationary period. Sources stated that the employee lacked sufficient knowledge about a particular type of flower. The moment led to King Charles not trusting the employee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t put that man in front of me again,\u201d the royal allegedly stated about the staffer. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another former gardening employee stated that the entire staff was \u201coverwhelmed, under-resourced, and constantly struggling\u201d to fulfill King Charles\u2019 requests. <\/p>\n<p>The staffer also said other gardening employees sustained several physical injuries trying to keep up with the king\u2019s demands. This left the morale among the employees at an all-time low. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is little management of the [His Majesty the King\u2019s] expectations,\u201d the former employee noted. \u201cAnd I know I would not be allowed to say we are understaffed.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The King\u2019s Foundation has commissioned an independent consulting firm, WorkNest, to investigate the toxic work environment allegations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt The King\u2019s Foundation, we strive to be an exemplary employer and are proud to regularly report very high satisfaction rates in our annual staff survey,\u201d a spokesperson of the foundation stated about the allegations. \u201cOur staff turnover is well below the national average, as is the number of formal grievances raised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King Charles\u2019 Gardening Employees Seek Fair Pay<\/p>\n<p>Along with allegations of a toxic work environment, another primary reason why many employees have resigned is the low wages. Insiders previously claimed that three gardeners were earning $11.98 per hour (the minimum wage). Two other gardeners were receiving $12.78 per hour. <\/p>\n<p>Jack Stook, who previously served as King Charles\u2019 senior gardener, spoke about why he left his position. \u201cThe world of gardening is known for its low pay, and I myself ended up leaving Highgrove after 20 years.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a back operation and, for want of a better word, did experience getting burnt out as a result,\u201d Stook continued. \u201cAs you would doing certain jobs regularly. Things had changed at that point, the foundation took the garden on, so it was the right time for me to leave.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles reportedly lost nearly a dozen employees who were \u201coverwhelmed and underpaid\u201d after they all quit due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,9729,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-315682","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-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-prince-charles","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114967299020618703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315682","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=315682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}