PA - Personal Assistant

Job Focus: PAs

Job Focus: PAs The role of the Private Personal Assistant is well known in the business world – assisting CEOs and upper management with many facets of their day-to-day activities. In private households the skills PAs bring in order to facilitate the lives of the principals and their families are essentially the same – they’re…

Household staff dress code

Household Staff Dress Code

Household Staff Dress Code Household staff are often very visible members of a domestic home. It is quite common therefore for either a formal (or less so) uniform or a dress code to be implemented amongst them. After all, they’ll be seen by and will interact with not only members of the principal family, but…

Palace Manager

Job Focus: Palace Manager

Job Focus: Palace Manager We’ve written about house managers before, these are sometimes known as household managers or estate managers, depending on the role and the property in question. However, what does it take to go a step beyond this into the world of the Palace Manager? A palace manager will be a very experienced…

city country household staff

City vs. Rural Working

City vs. Rural Working We have placed household staff into roles in many countries around the world, into widely varying positions and every type of home, family, entourage and estate conceivable. Taking the huge number of variables into consideration there’s still one either/or factor that often seems to apply: is the role city based or…

Buckingham Palace

The Queen

The Queen Akin to the rest of the United Kingdom – and indeed the world – we at Pembury Partners were deeply saddened to learn of The Queen’s passing. We therefore thought it might be appropriate to suspend our usual blogging activities and instead prepare a small tribute. Queen Elizabeth II – or to give…

Job Focus: Household Manager

Job Focus: Household Manager A large and perfectly appointed home is undoubtedly a wonderful thing to own, it’s where you’re able to spend time with your family and entertain friends. However, the responsibilities of keeping the house as you envision, administering to the reams of paperwork it generates and managing the staff you’ve hired to…