This just in: Queen Elizabeth’s first openly gay footman just quit his job after Royal Household management demoted him for being too much of an attention seeker.
21-year-old Ollie Roberts made headlines when he became Queen Elizabeth’s first openly gay footman.
It’s the footman’s responsibility to travel in the carriage alongside the monarch. He also does things like walk her dogs, take in her mail, and pass her things that aren’t within arm’s reach.
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But apparently there’s only room for one queen in Buckingham palace. Because now The Sun is reporting that royal management recently demoted Roberts because he was “overdoing the press stuff.”
Apparently, Robert was posting too many selfies on Instagram and appearing in too many stories in the gay press and they felt it was all just too too much.
So they demoted him back to being a regular old footman.
“Ollie was informed he had been overdoing the press stuff and they knew he was behind articles and gossip pieces,” an insider tells The Sun. “They told him his profile was becoming too high and he wasn’t there to draw attention to himself.”
Roberts reportedly “thought about it for a couple of days then decided he should quit.”
Roberts made his first public appearance as the Queen’s footman in the Trooping the Colour in London. Before that, he served in the Royal Air Force.
Since quitting his job, Roberts has deleted his Instagram profile and has not issued any comment on the matter.
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MacAdvisor
The staff in royal service are to be invisible. They are not to pull the focus from the royal family, nor achieve fame themselves. Roberts did the right thing for Queen and Country by moving on.
dean089
Another click-bait headline. He wasn’t told to tone down his gayness, he was told to tone down his self-promotion. Any staff at Buckingham Palace would be told the same regardless of their sexual orientation. Even ‘Fergie,’ the Duchess of York, was told to tone it down with Twitter and Instagram.
Prax07
The one they should tell to tone her publicity is Markel or however it’s spelled. My bing feed is overflowing with her crap no matter how often I “dislike” the articles.
Mr_Heffel
Rules are rules. I’m sure he broke some given all the media/self promotion as stated.
No one wants to deal with any unneeded drama.
Birdbrain1963
not worth reading