AUTHOR’S NOTE
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AUTHOR’S NOTEThe description of the confusion at Windsor Castle and the other Royal Residences is true.
On his own initiative the Prince Consort set about reforming the Royal Household and Court. He realised that a vast amount of money was squandered every year in the Palaces yet not one was even adequately run.
He found out for instance that, although tens of thousands of people were provided with dinners every year, only a small proportion were actually entitled to them. Candles were replaced every day in the principal rooms whether or not they had been used and those removed being appropriated by the staff as a traditional prerequisite.
At Windsor Castle in one average quarter, no less than 184 new brushes, brooms or mops were bought as well as 24 new pairs of home-made gloves, 24 chamois leathers and 96 packing mats. At one time there were three to four hundred dusters ‘scattered all over the Castle’.
Prince Albert threw all his efficiency and head for management into the struggle and by 1845 there had been considerable reform.
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