Remember Angela Kelly, Queen Elizabeth’s dresser and BFF? According to Kelly’s leaks about herself, she was QEII’s best friend and constant companion, and Kelly was given free rein to disrespect and smear anyone in the Windsor clan. It was always funny that Kelly was held up as some kind of discreet confidante and companion. Her history of violence and tacky personal dramas should have been disqualifying, but no, she continued to back-stab her way into being a seriously ill queen’s right-hand woman. I bring up Angela Kelly to point out that Buckingham Palace does not attract the best and brightest. Unsurprisingly, there’s a new drama involving a palace maid getting arrested at a Christmas party for palace staff. How deliciously tacky.
A Christmas party for Buckingham Palace staff spiralled “out of control” with cops called to a nearby bar after glasses were hurled and punches thrown. Trouble flared when up to 50 servants arrived for a pre-arranged All Bar One bash after Palace drinks. A woman believed to be a housemaid aimed a punch at the manager, smashed glasses and was arrested. Security tried to calm her down but she continued to throw glasses, it is claimed.
A witness to the chaotic scenes said: “I’ve never seen one person get that crazy during a night out. She was on another level.”
Police raced to the bar after 9pm on Tuesday and the woman, 24, was arrested for common assault, criminal damage and being drunk and disorderly. She was thrown in a cell for the night and was released almost 24 hours later with a fine.
A source admitted to The Sun it had been a “tough night” for everyone involved. Another said: “Someone kicked off outside, was smashing glasses, and then got arrested.”
Details of the drama emerged as offices across the country hold Christmas parties with warnings they can spiral out of control ahead of Black Eye Friday, or Mad Friday, next week.
Royal staff had enjoyed drinks at the Palace at 4pm, with the event passing without incident. A group of around 50 including the woman later arrived for a pre-arranged party at the All Bar One — a nine-minute walk away in Victoria Street.
One insider told The Sun: “The group walked in and this one girl just got hysterical. She started smashing glasses and abusing our staff members, so we had to call the police. I’ve never seen one person get that crazy during a night out. She was on another level.”
It is understood Met Police officers also seized its CCTV. A force spokesperson said: “At 21.21hrs on Tuesday, December 10 officers were called to a bar in Victoria Street, SW1, following reports that a customer had smashed glasses and attempted to assault a member of staff. Officers attended and arrested a 24-year-old woman on suspicion of common assault, criminal damage and being drunk and disorderly. She was taken into custody and released the following evening having been given a penalty notice for disorder.”
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: “We are aware of an incident outside the workplace involving a number of Household staff who had previously attended an early evening reception at the Palace. While this was an informal social gathering, not an official Palace Christmas party, the facts will be fully investigated, with a robust disciplinary process followed in relation to individual staff and appropriate action taken.”
Okay, now I’m curious – the Sun makes it sound like this happened early in the night? Like, did the maid arrive with 49 palace staffers and immediately get hammered and start beefing with everyone? Was there some kind of inciting incident? Did she have an issue with the All Bar One staffers or with her coworkers? Anyway, it’s not a good look for Buckingham Palace, and yet this feels on-brand for King Charles’s reign. This is what happens when you make your tacky-ass side-chick the queen consort, you know? This is what gets normalized.
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla during the Diplomatic Corps reception at Buckingham Palace in London. Picture date: Tuesday November 19, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story ROYAL Diplomatic. Photo credit should read: Aaron,Image: 936503943, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Aaron Chown/Avalon/Avalon
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- Queen Camilla during the Diplomatic Corps reception at Buckingham Palace in London. Picture date: Tuesday November 19, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story ROYAL Diplomatic. Photo credit should read: Aaron,Image: 936504000, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Aaron Chown/Avalon/Avalon
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- London, UK, 03 December 2024: Queen Camilla during the state visit by Emir of Qatar. The Emir of the State of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, accompanied by Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Hamad bin Suhaim Al Thani, has accepted an invitation from His Majesty The King to pay a State Visit to the United Kingdom the couple attended a state banquet at Buckingham Palace with HM King Charles III and Queen Camilla who is recovering from pneumonia.,Image: 942580831, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Ian Vogler/Avalon/Avalon
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- Queen Camilla ahead of a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, London, during the Emir of Qatar’s state visit to the UK Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: London, United Kingdom When: 03 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III (2nd left) with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (left) with Queen Camilla and the Emir of Qatar’s wife Sheikha Jawaher make their way along the East Gallery to attend the state banquet for the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at Buckingham Palace, London, during his state visit to the UK Featuring: King Charles III, Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Queen Camilla, Sheikha Jawaher Where: London, United Kingdom When: 03 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla talking to guests during an anniversary reception at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London to celebrate 50 years of Women’s Aid. Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: London, United Kingdom When: 05 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla during an anniversary reception at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London to celebrate 50 years of Women’s Aid. Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: London, United Kingdom When: 05 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla during an anniversary reception at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London to celebrate 50 years of Women’s Aid. Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: London, United Kingdom When: 05 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Excuse me, how did this become Camilla’s fault? There are plenty of other things you can blame her for, but an out of control adult who started drinking at a work party, and then continued at a bar, is not one of them.
This is a reflection on Charles and Camilla as they are the big bosses of the institution. This shows how toxic the workplace has been.
No it doesn’t. It shows an employee who was over served at a bar.
IMPO, it does, and it doesn’t. Camilla, trashy as she actually is- IS an aristocrat. She was born into an aristocratic family- her father was an Army Major and heir to a barony.
that of course does not excuse her absolutely tacky behavior and she is proof that money and position don’t equal class.
I doubt that this maid is the first, and certainly won’t be the last palace employee who has been arrested for something. I suspect there have been higher level employees who have done far worse than this maid did- but what ever they did was hushed up or just not widely reported.
the fact that a drunken brawl is news is actually more indicative of the public’s appetite for this sort of tawdry reporting- this is actually considered NEWS to the point that it’s being covered across the pond.
IMHO, this is more on brand for what society has deteriorated into- and that’s not so much at the feet of Charles, or the Orange one. they are actually symptoms of a much larger societal breakdown.
I agree that this is a reflection on Chuckles and Horsilla and them not hiring better people but you sure do get what you pay for and they pay a measly pittance to these people. The pay is shitty but they think they can get away with it because people love the idea of working for royalty. Well that may have been true years ago but today not so much.
Charles and Camilla are not responsible for someone else’s problem with alcohol. Plenty of alcoholics are hired without the employer having prior knowledge about their problem. Not every alcoholic gets into legal trouble prior to being hired for a job -there’s no way of knowing. I’ve been at a job where coworkers got fired after a work Christmas party where they were being drunk and disorderly. It happens.
No they’re not responsible but it’s funny to say the wheels are falling off now that they’re in power. One could argue that out of deference to the queen a staff member would never dare to do such a thing. But of course people drinking too much around the holidays could happen under any reign. Doesn’t change the fact that Camilla and Charles are trashy and petty people regardless of what their staff is doing.
Camilla is of the gentry. She was not an aristo.
@TESSA You’re right, Camilla is gentry, not aristocracy. Gentry are commoners but not as common as the Middletons.
The Court of Henry VIII is a good illustration of the historic class system. Royalty is at the centre. The aristocracy are a series of circles around royalty with the highest ranking being closest to the centre. The gentry are below the aristocracy, with sub-ranks based on aristocratic connections , land ownership and inherited wealth. Below the gentry are the trading classes with ranks based on occupations and wealth. The lowest rank is the peasantry who work for wages.
In the Court of Elizabeth II, Diana was aristocracy as the daughter of an earl, Sarah Ferguson was gentry, Mark Phillips and Sophie Rhys-Jones would fit into the trading class. Kate Middleton scrapes into the trading class based on her father’s background but her mother’s background would be the peasant class.
The system has always been fluid with wealth, land ownership and marriage being ways of moving up or down. A woman shares her husband’s status unless her own birth status is higher than his so marrying a daughter into royalty would often be the means of elevating the family. The Middletons expected Michael Middleton to be given a title.
Camilla regarded Kate Middleton as being too ‘low born’ to marry William.
Kate’s conduct from the time she became Princess of Wales looks like she’s goading Camilla. Camilla banned tiaras at the Coronation so Kate commissioned her own tiara-style headdress. Her ‘scarlet woman’ performance at last year’s state visit of the South Korean President and First Lady, was a calculated mockery. She hasn’t the intelligence to understand how Charles would view this. I think her future as William’s wife is far from secure.
Any chance this woman loses her job for dragging BP into a scandal, though scandal is not new to the Windsors.
So just imagine if this was anyone on the Sussex’s payroll? It would be endless…
Well, the place was CALLED “All Bar One” so obviously they had to bar one person from the bar, right?
😂
I’m not sure I would blame BP here? This sounds like a woman with an alcohol (and other substances?) problem, and unfortunately, this is a universal in societies. I hope the staff is okay–it’s miserable when someone loses it like that around you. And hopefully that woman gets help.
Over on this side of the pond, I wish our biggest problem right now was an over served White House maid trashing a bar in Georgetown.
So do I. Hugs!
That is the truth, Brassy Rebel.
This kind of problem seems quaint by comparison.
I feel like this was the kind of thing that probably used to happen at least occasionally but was probably dealt with invisibly and not reported on.
Eh, my guess is this happens in cities across the world on the daily for the next two weeks — people wear cheap velvet, lots of sequins and attend corporate Christmas parties with open bars, make idiots of themselves, make inappropriate advances towards coworkers, wake up with hangovers…then lay low at the office for a couple of weeks.
I wouldn’t say this is an exclusive to BP.
I was hoping the incident had happened in the palace. That wouldve been fun! Maybe the chick drank too much at the palace and all it took was one small thing for her to go apesh*t.
Lol at Buck House parties are at All Bar One, though. How trashy.
‘…Christmas parties with warnings they can spiral out of control ahead of Black Eye Friday, or Mad Friday….’ Nothing says Christmas like getting blind drunk & causing a ruckus. Seriously, though, that country needs to examine its social norms if getting so damn drunk at Christmas parties they have a name for the aftermath.
It’s true– the fish rots from the head. Like it or not, this IS Charles’ fault as well as Camilla’s. Who’s to say she didn’t learn her behavior from her “betters?”. At least she didn’t punch someone onto a dog bowl.
She was apparently arrested, if AI images are to be believed, for dislocating her jaw and swallowing all the decorations.