Prince Charles' character - treatment of staff

[Tony Gosling]

By KAREN MCVEIGH
Key points
• Hereditary heir to British throne criticises 
those with 'ideas above their station'
• Such as former secretary, who is claiming 
unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination
• More unwelcome ructions from Clarence House for Monarchy
http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/prince-s-blast-at-people-who-get-above-their-station-1-562530

Key quote
"People think they can all be pop stars, high 
court judges, brilliant TV personalities or 
infinitely more competent heads of state without 
ever putting in the necessary work or having 
natural ability. This is the result of social 
utopianism which believes humanity can be 
genetically and socially engineered to contradict 
the lessons of history." - Prince Charles

Story in full PRINCE Charles’s latest 
pronouncement on British society - that its 
schools are imbued with a culture of "social 
utopianism" responsible for people getting ideas 
above their station - was laid bare at an employment tribunal yesterday.
In a scathing memo, written to a third party in 
response to a request from a former Clarence 
House secretary for more training at work, 
Charles complained that young people nowadays 
think they can be pop stars, high court judges or 
even heads of state without putting in the work 
or having the "natural ability".
The secretary in question, Elaine Day, was 
described in the memo by Charles as "so PC it frightens me rigid".
Ms Day, who is claiming sex discrimination and 
unfair dismissal against the prince’s 
household, described it as "hierarchical and 
elitist", an institution run in an "Edwardian 
fashion" where everyone knew their place and those who did not were punished.
A personal assistant to private secretaries at 
Clarence House for five years, Ms Day told the 
tribunal she was forced out earlier this year 
because she "rocked the boat at the palace". She 
said she was left "isolated and humiliated" after 
complaining about sexual harassment from her 
boss, assistant private secretary Paul Kefford.
Clarence House has said it will "vigorously" 
contest the case, which is being heard in 
Croydon, south London, and is expected to last three days.
The memo was written by the prince in response to 
a suggestion by Ms Day that personal assistants 
with university degrees should be given the 
opportunity to train to become private secretaries, the hearing was told.
In the memo, the prince wrote: "What is wrong with everyone nowadays?
"Why do they all seem to think they are qualified 
to do things far beyond their technical capabilities?
"This is to do with the learning culture in 
schools as a consequence of a child-centred system which admits no failure.
"People think they can all be pop stars, high 
court judges, brilliant TV personalities or 
infinitely more competent heads of state without 
ever putting in the necessary work or having natural ability.
"This is the result of social utopianism which 
believes humanity can be genetically and socially 
engineered to contradict the lessons of history."
The memo concludes: "What on earth am I to tell 
Elaine? She is so PC it frightens me rigid."

The note, dated March 2003, was a response to a 
suggestion made by Ms Day to Mr Kefford.
Ruth Downing, counsel for Ms Day, asked her what she understood it to mean.
"I completely felt that people could not rise 
above their station," Ms Day replied.

The secretary, from Belvedere, Kent, said a 
campaign of discrimination had been launched 
against her in an attempt to "remind her of her place" at Clarence House.
Ms Day claimed the problems started after her 
former boss, Mark Bolland, then the prince’s 
deputy private secretary, left in August 2002 and 
she began working under Mr Kefford.
She said that she felt "uncomfortable" as soon as 
she started working for Mr Kefford.
"He would approach me from behind at the 
photocopier and put his hand on my back and rub 
it, He would also touch my arm and shoulders and that made me feel uneasy."
She told the tribunal she was one of three female 
members of staff who were sexually harassed by 
the prince’s assistant private secretary. After 
an event in August 2002, she said: "I didn’t 
ever want to be put in a position where I was 
alone with him, ie working late at night, going 
into his office and shutting the door."
She said that she first complained in August 2002 
and made a formal complaint in October.

Ms Day said that when she raised her concerns to 
Prince Charles’s private secretary, Sir Michael 
Peat, he replied: "I thought he was gay."
Ms Day said that, after her complaint, she had 
been subject to "continuing acts of 
discrimination, victimisation, harassment and 
undermining behaviour" by senior staff.
She said that she experienced "ongoing 
discrimination" until she left in April this year.
She added: "I was aware of a culture in the 
household, which stemmed from His Royal Highness 
the Prince of Wales, that the respondent [the 
prince’s household] would not welcome employees 
which it perceived rocked the boat. This was made abundantly clear to me."

She told the tribunal how she had been "put in 
her place" on a particular trip to Holyrood 
Palace in June 2003. On that occasion, she was 
given an attic room to sleep in alongside 
domestic servants rather than a room with the rest of the office staff.
She said: "I appreciate that the fact that I had 
been confined to the attic with the domestic 
staff may seem a trivial matter, but working in 
the household it’s all about status, hierarchy and knowing one’s place.
"Putting me up in the attic with domestic staff, 
away from the other office staff, has clearly 
been done to humiliate me and remind me of my place.
"At the end of the day I am not the first person 
to consider that if you go against the palace, 
steps will be taken to isolate you."
Ms Day added: "I simply felt that I had nowhere 
to turn, I felt totally isolated."
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