Word: footmen
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...Household Cavalry on gleaming chestnut horses flashed sabers, glinting silver. Behind them came the royal coach, drawn by four grey horses, with the driver and two footmen splashes of vivid scarlet above the deep maroon of the coachwork. Through the windows the crowds could see the King in an admiral's uniform, sitting erect and wooden-faced under his gold-peaked cap, while the Queen, with her plump, pink-and-white face, powder blue hat, grey-fawn furs, was all smiles and gracious waves. The Welsh Guards Band played God Save the King as the coach went...
...King's Household will be discussed under the chairmanship of one of the blue-coated (senior) servants of the household, as distinguished from the red-coated (junior) servants. The union has also joined up with the London Trades Council, and one of the King's footmen has been selected as the delegate to the L.T.C...
...Palace has given the union an office for meetings. There the footmen, butlers, housemaids, valets, cooks, pages and workers at the Royal Mews can take their gripes, if they have any. However, an aura of bliss seems to have settled over the Royal menage. Wrote J. R. Clynes, former Home Secretary, in the Municipal and General Workers Journal: "In an enlightened future the head of a royal household staff may not only have the honor attaching to his place of employment but the honor of acting as shop steward for his mates...
...flattering air of respect and, even of rapture." A well-meaning aunt gave lectures on the social impossibility of otherwise well-meaning people who pronounced girl as gurl. There were ancestral ghosts in Tudor or Jacobean chambers, and the spectacle of daily prayers, attended by a long line of footmen and housemaids, "seemingly well-drilled as a corps de ballet." Big-eyed, the little Sitwells took everything in. Their world was almost as special as their scarlet tree...
...Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Marlborough House some 200 of George's 235 footmen, valets, cooks and pages joined the Civil Servants Union en masse. They demanded better pay, a cost-of-living bonus and equal status with other government employes. The Government, responsible for paying the King's help, promptly offered a 30-shilling increase, but the servants turned it down flat. Their bargaining position is strong-for months now toothy Lieut. Colonel, the Honorable Sir Piers Legh, Master of His Majesty's Household, has been scrabbling through London's employment agencies begging...