Daily routine and job description for King/Queen of England

Have ever wondered what it is like being a King or a Queen? What roles you are expected to play, Your daily routine, meetings and activities? Well it might interest you to know that being a monarch is a regimented, relentless, repetitive and objectively boring gig.

The travel opportunities are great and of course there are other perks — staff, meals, excellent schmoozing opportunities — but the day-to-day could quickly get mundane.

When you look at the job description for kings or Queens, you might want to have a change of thought.

We take a look at British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II who was thrust onto the throne at the tender age of 25, and for the past 65 years, the majority of her days have gone pretty much like this:

Queen Elizabeth II received hundreds of letters each day.Source:News Limited

— Read the newspapers before settling down to hundreds of letters from the general public.

— Reply to as many of those letters as she chooses, farm out the other to staff with advice on how to response.

— Meet with private secretaries to go over official documents and personally sign all those that come from government ministers from Commonwealth countries.

— Hold a series of meetings, usually about 20 minutes each, with those who have been granted an audience. One of these each week, usually on a Wednesday, will be the UK Prime Minister.

— Lunch at home, usually privately but occasionally a group of guests will be invited to the Palace to join.

— Duck out to a public engagement — the monarch carries out more than 400 of these each year, which could include ribbon-cutting, hand-shaking, a hospital visit, being guided through some new facility or meeting people of varying importance.

— Meeting with staff or ministers.

— Round off the day by reading a daily report of parliamentary proceedings. Every. Night.

— Occasionally attend an evening function linked to one of the hundreds of organisation to which Her Majesty is patron, or host a reception at Buckingham Palace.

— And a quick scribble in the diary before bed. The Queen has kept a diary since her reign began, in which each night she presumably write down a slightly different version of events to the day before.

When the Queen is abroad or having a holiday at her summer home in Balmoral or her winter residence in Sandringham the days events will vary, but the general routine remains the same. 

And according to report, reviewing daily correspondence and parliamentary proceedings are not negotiable.

Future monarchs will unlikely be able to shirk these duties, but just as the younger royals managed to boost the relevance of the royal family, it’s likely the next couple of kings (and later, queens) will be able to put their own stamp on the role.