Royal expert lifts lid on whether Prince William really fired Queen Camilla’s sister
One royal expert has spoken out about Queen Camilla's sister being erased from the royal payroll - but did Prince William really fire her?
Queen Camilla’s interior designer sister Annabel Elliot has been removed from the royal payroll, with one expert lifting the lid on whether Prince William was behind the decision – and had fired the 75-year-old. The Prince of Wales inherited the Duchy of Cornwall estate, which is worth over £1 billion, when his father assumed the throne in September 2022.
However, the recently published annual accounts revealed that William had made the decision to take his stepmother’s sister out of the payroll – which she had been granted for two decades for her interior design services to the Royal Family. Annabel was first hired by the now King-Charles to act as the chief designer of his estates after tying the knot with Camilla in 2005.
Speaking of the decision to remove Camilla’s sister from the payroll, royal experts Emmy Griffiths and Emily Nash discussed whether William had been the one to “fire” her on the latest episode of A Right Royal Podcast. Asked whether William has fired her, Emmy replied: “He hasn’t fired the Queen’s sister. Annabel Elliot is the Queen’s sister, her younger sister and she is well-established in interiors designer. “She was working across properties owned by the Dutch of Cornwall but since Prince William has taken over as Duke of Cornwall, he has taken her off the payroll.
“So that’s caused a few ripples in a few headlines… But I don’t think there’s anything untoward about it.” Emmy added: “She obviously has worked, depending on what the King and Queen have asked her to do, but Prince William’s coming at it fresh, he might have different plans.” “The understanding is that people working on the estate already understand now how things should look, they’ve learnt a great deal from her.”
She also discussed that Annabel still works for the King andd Queen – privately. Emmy added: “She is actually still working for the King and Queen privately, on their private estates, up at Balmoral and Sandringham, so it’s not really a firing but that little nigget did come out of the Duchy of Cornwall report that we discussed last time.”
