No extra 'girls in ready' for Queen Consort Camilla

Camilla Parker Bowles, Queen Consort to King Charles III, is breaking the longstanding royal custom of getting “ladies-in-waiting” and can as an alternative appoint assistants below the modernized title “Queen’s Companions,” a number of retailers are reporting.

The BBC experiences that Camilla can be scaling again the duties of her six assistants, making the symbolic place much less of an administrative or secretarial dedication than up to now, when ladies-in-waiting additionally labored on logistics for the Queen.

The transfer is a part of an effort to push the British monarchy into modernity and rework elements of the establishment after the demise of Queen Elizabeth II, whose passing ended a file seven-decade reign and left the monarchy to her son.

Nonetheless, the assistants will doubtless play a equally supportive, personal-assistant function to Camilla as they’ve carried out to Queens and Queen Consorts because the Center Ages, attending her at public occasions and supporting her official duties, in response to the Washington Submit.

Camilla has reportedly handpicked for the place six of her shut buddies, they usually’re set to make their first look together with her at a Violence Towards Girls and Women occasion at Buckingham Palace later this week.