THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD
There ore ovor two hundred rooms in Buckingham Palace, including forty bedrooms, (thirty for servants), ten private apartments for the King, and nine for the Queen, thirty State apartments, and twenty bos and luggage rooms. The servant staff numbers about 250 men and maid servants. There are about sixty housemaids, a housekeper, and four assistant housekeepers. Many of the men-servants are married and live out. . There are usually ten motor cars in use for the King'and Queen, about twenty for the use of members of tlfe household,. and; a .dozen for conveying luggage,, servants, ;apd so on to and from railway stations.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6893, 26 April 1929, Page 11
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105THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6893, 26 April 1929, Page 11
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