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Queen admits to employing family members
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2-10-2008 1:37 AM
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border: none;" cite="http://newsbiscuit.com/article/queen-admits-to-employing-family-members-293">The news first broke last week when the Queen was criticised for claiming £14m to pay her son Charles.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbiscuit.com/article/queen-admits-to-employing-family-members-293">Apart from a brief spell in the forces, it appears that Charles has in fact been unemployed for the last thirty years with little evidence of any attempt to gain new skills or undertake training.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbiscuit.com/article/queen-admits-to-employing-family-members-293">Yet the Queen has consistently kept him on the payroll, first as an ‘heir to the throne’ and then later as a ‘Prince of Wales’.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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