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Show English Monarch Has 264 Helpers Days of Strong Arm And Sword Are Gone LONDON It used to be that all a king needed was a lion's heart and a good sword arm. Things have changed since the Windsor family went into the crown business more than 1,000 years ago. To handle the job today, you have to have a lot of assistants. A new household list has recently been compiled for King George VI, and it shows it takes at least 264 helpers help-ers to hold down the monarchy. In fact, it's pretty much a job just keeping up with the assistants, those close to the throne say. These are complicated days in Buckingham Bucking-ham Palace. King George has 43 doctors (physicians, (phy-sicians, extra physicians, sergeant surgeons, surgeon apothacaries, surgeon occulists, manipulative surgeons, sur-geons, surgeon dentists, etc.) He has 43 chaplains. He- has 13 secretaries and assistants and a treasurer, a comptroller, a vice-chamberlain vice-chamberlain and 14 helpers just to take care of the royal income. Purity on Stage Five people work full time preparing pre-paring the royal archives and five more control the king's charities. The king keeps an eye on purity on the stage through his chief assistant, as-sistant, the lord chamberlain.' His palaces are under a lord steward and ever, in this atomic age he finds it necessary to have a master of the horse. Sovereigns have to be patrons of the arts, so the king needs a poet laureate, a master of the music and an official miner or painter. |
