His lifestyle would seem extravagant to Louis XIV: a team of four valets so that one is always available to lay out and pick up his clothes; a servant to squeeze his toothpaste on to his brush, and another who once held the specimen bottle while he gave a urine sample. Step into the world of the Prince of Wales, a lifestyle so pampered that even the Queen has complained that it is grotesque. As …
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…calling for parliament to take a closer look at the size of the staff, and a pared-down House of Windsor is likely to be the most immediate consequence of the Burrell affair. "Trimming down the households would be a start," said Paul Flynn, Labour MP for Newport West. "Why anybody in this day and age needs that number of servants is completely beyond me. Even the president of the United States makes his own breakfast."