Property News · January 6, 2015

The burden of being super-rich: the domestics are always on holiday


Knight Frank, estate agent to the wealthy, issues advice and a stark warning about staff spilling the beans on social mediaDealing with the “burden” of domestic servants who are “always on holiday” and who might reveal tidbits about your personal life on Twitter is one of the main “issues that matter” in the countryside, according to a report by estate agents to the super-rich, Knight Frank.Downton Abbey’s Dowager Countess of Grantham (played by Maggie Smith) might perhaps recognise the problems, though she would perhaps be rather more acidic in dispensing solutions. Knight Frank, in its quarterly “unique guide to the issues that matter to landowners” emphasises that, thankfully, you can get the staff these days – but you have to be so careful that they are “a blessing, not a burden”. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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