Originally Posted by
Boslandew
Good point.
Here's a thought. Once or twice a year I have to dress up in best bib and tucker, clean shoes, and arrive on time for a funeral or other formal occasion, drink a glass of plonk, eat rubber chicken, smile and chat to people with whom I have little in common. The Duke did that two or three hundred times a year to support the Queen. Now that's service!
Precisely the sort of thing I was thinking about. No slobbing about unshaven in his jimjams until lunchtime for HRH, or getting filthy fixing up an old motorbike at his leisure. I have lots of other little luxuries like those.