Your Royal Shine-ness! Queen is hiring a £20,000 live-in apprentice cleaner for Windsor Castle to help out at Royal Family functions

  • The Royal Family website is hiring a cleaner to join its staff at Windsor Palace
  •  Role described giving an 'extraordinary service in incredible surroundings'
  • The salary is £19,140 in return for 30 hours a week from Monday to Sunday 
  • Household staff for the Queen, 94, have been in 'HMS Bubble' throughout virus  

The Royal family is hiring a cleaner to join its Windsor Palace staff, a new advert on the Buckingham Palace website shows. 

The role, which is based at the Queen, 94, and Prince Philip's, 99, residence, is described as delivering an 'extraordinary service in incredible surroundings'. 

The individual, who will start with a salary of £19,140 and will live at the royal residence, is responsible for the 'upkeep and care of a wide range of interiors and items', as well as supporting events and functions at the palace. 

It comes weeks after reports claimed the Queen was 'furious' after Royal Household staff revolted against a plan for them to stay in a coronavirus bubble at Sandringham over Christmas.

The winning candidate will learn-on-the-job, whilst working alongside the team to upkeep, clean and care for the interiors of the homes ¿ ensuring that they are fit for a Queen

The Queen, 94,  is hiring a cleaner to join its Windsor Palace staff, a new advert on the Buckingham Palace website shows

The job advert, which was posted online this week, explained you don't need experience, or an English or Maths qualification, but the candidate will have to be  looking for a 'commitment to learning new skills' and a 'willingness to tackle new challenges'.

The Level 2 Housekeeping Apprenticeship will see the candidate learn on the job, supported by a mentor and a 13-month learning programme, before joining the permanent team to deliver 'exceptional standards'.

It promises to 'help set you on course for a successful career in the hospitality sector.'

According to the job advert, candidates will be based mainly in either Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace but will also 'work across other residences throughout the year.'  

According to the job advert, candidates will be based mainly in either Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace but will also 'work across other residences throughout the year' (pictured, Windsor Castle)

According to the job advert, candidates will be based mainly in either Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace but will also 'work across other residences throughout the year' (pictured, Windsor Castle) 

The housekeeper will also get to travel to other royal homes for around three months of the year. 

Candidates will also be offered the chance to live-in the palace, with all meals and travel expenses provided, for which there is a salary adjustment.

The job adverts states candidates need to manage the 'upkeep, clean and care' of lavish interiors and priceless items, ensuring they're 'presented to their very best'.

It added: 'You'll gain specialist technical skills that will form the foundations of your housekeeping career, as well as providing you with an understanding of the wider hospitality profession.

The job advert, which was shared online this week, is based at Windsor Castle with a salary of £19,140

The job advert, which was shared online this week, is based at Windsor Castle with a salary of £19,140 

'Above all, you'll be keen to take every opportunity to gain experience and build on your learning to become a housekeeping expert.' 

The job advert comes weeks after reports emerged the Queen was  'furious' after Royal Household staff revolted against a plan for them to stay in a coronavirus bubble at Sandringham over Christmas.

A team of about 20 employees had been asked to remain on the monarch's Norfolk estate without their families to support her, Prince Philip and other members of the Royal Family during the festive period.

But the group – said to involve cleaners, laundry and maintenance workers - are believed to have mutinied because they are unwilling to isolate from loved ones for four weeks.

Staff were being asked to stay for the month-long period so they could remain in a Covid bubble to protect the 94-year-old monarch.

The uprising means the Queen could be forced to spend Christmas at Windsor Castle for the first time in 33 years. 

The advert comes weeks after reports suggested the Queen was 'furious' after Royal Household staff revolted against a plan for them to stay in a coronavirus bubble at Sandringham over Christmas (pictured, the Queen in December 2018)

The advert comes weeks after reports suggested the Queen was 'furious' after Royal Household staff revolted against a plan for them to stay in a coronavirus bubble at Sandringham over Christmas (pictured, the Queen in December 2018) 

Palace officials are in the process of creating a special 'bubble' between Sandringham and Windsor, which means the Queen can travel between the two with the same team.

This means that when the Queen returns to the castle in early October and 'commutes' as she resumes limited duties at Buckingham Palace during the week, she and Philip can still travel between their residences to see each other. 

A royal source told The Sun: 'The Queen is furious. The staff said enough is enough. It is absolutely unprecedented.

'Everybody wants to stay loyal but they feel they've been pushed too far by being made to isolate from their families for Christmas.

'Discussions are taking place with the team on operational matters but it is too early to speculate on implications for Christmas.' 

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