Domestic staff for Palaces
Many of our clients are middle eastern royal families, seeking domestic staff for Palaces. You might be seeking housekeepers, laundry maids, butlers or a Palace Manager. Either for one of your Palaces or for several. Whatever your needs, we are sure to be able to help.
If you are seeking an exclusive domestic staff agency like Bespoke Bureau, please call or email us: +442032900142 or info@bespokebureau.com
We are experts in dealing with Royals and UHNW clients seeking the best of the best staff for their Palaces or Estates.
A Different Kind of Agency dealing with domestic staff for Palaces
As you may have already figured or heard, Bespoke Bureau is a boutique staffing agency service. We save you tons of time, guessing and experimentation because decades of experience go into our decisions. While other agencies are closed on holidays, weekends, and after 5:00 pm during the week; we are going the extra mile offering an unparalleled service for our Royal clients, trying to be available as many hours of the day as possible. This is because the lives of our UHNW clients are never on hold, and we aren’t either. Moreover, understand the unique demands on your time.
Quality over Quantity
Because we limit our placements, and the clients we take onboard, we can put our whole heart into your role. At other high-volume agencies, they are simultaneously searching for many other staff for many other clients, whilst at the same time trying to place your job. Most other domestic staffing agents are juggling 10 to 15 placements at the same time, trying to place the role before a competitor does. The agency as a whole might be working on 50 to 100 jobs at the same time. In short, they are factories. We are boutique. And Unique.
Available Domestic Staff for Palaces
We recruit the following staff:
Palace Managers
A Palace Manager typically works in the Middle East. They often have backgrounds in hospitality and have managed estates exceeding 20,000 square feet. Since palaces often exceed 40,000 square feet, the Palace Manager is tasked with managing all the domestic staff and ensuring the day-to-day operations of the household. Larger palaces have dozens of departments and hundreds of employees that the Palace Manager oversees.
Butlers
Male or female and can have a number of responsibilities. Most typically, their job is to serve guests. They usually take the lead role of the other household servants. Depending on the size of the Palace or Estate and the number of employees, the butler can also act as the House Manager.
Because each estate is run differently, job titles and responsibilities are often blurred. Hybrid positions are very popular now, and the butler could also have some driving responsibilities (but so could a Personal Assistant, for example).
Nannies
A Nanny is exclusively in charge of children. In the past, this role was primarily handled by women but there are also male options available. Similarly, a Governess is someone who has the skills and qualifications to supplement a child’s learning and work with the primary school teacher, or the Governess may “home school” the children entirely by herself. A candidate in this role will typically have a master’s degree and/or a teaching credential.
Private Chefs
It is customary in a large estate to hire a full-time Private Chef or several Private Chefs. These types of positions often require that the chef have both professional training and prior experience in luxury hotels and resorts. Some may even have a Michelin experience.
Depending on the agreement, the private chef could have a number of responsibilities during breakfast, lunch, brunch, and dinner. Also, these responsibilities can include weekends and holidays. High-net-worth families often take a private chef with them to other estates or even on vacation.
The chef will often work with the butler, or estate manager for a variety of reasons. Candidates in this category need to be well-versed in a variety of cuisines with knowledge of fine wines.
Housekeepers
Depending on the size of the estate, there could be several housekeepers who are led by a Senior Housekeeper (or Executive Housekeeper). Essentially, the housekeeping staff operate in a similar way to a five-star hotel. The cleaning regimen is highly systematized, and the housekeepers are trained to meet the individualized needs of the VIPs they work for.
Laundresses or Laundry Maids
A Laundress would specifically be responsible for laundry, ironing, and linen, to name a few things. She or he would also oversee packing and unpacking for holidays, as well as storing seasonal clothing. It would be customary for a person in this role to have specialized training and come from a luxury hospitality background.
Family office staff
A Private Family Office (aka Family Office) is an organization of advisory experts in staffing, finance, and philanthropy, among other things. Some ultra-high net worth families elect to employ a board of subject-matter experts that are essentially captive agents working for the Trust and other business entities. We offer candidates for chief of staff roles, head of family office roles and more.
Private Chauffeurs
Depending on the size of the estate and schedule of the principal, a full-time Driver may be employed. This is often a hybrid position as the driver can double as a Personal Assistant as well. Further, many UHNW individuals are now hiring hybrid driver-security agents.
Carers or Companions:
There are many different reasons that someone might want a Companion; but in the private service industry, some high-net-worth individuals who are elderly like to hire a companion. Oftentimes, Clients hiring carers because they have some medical conditions and/or are frail and need help with a number of day to day duties such as cleaning, cooking, errands, shopping, hygiene and more.
Domestic Couples
These are typically a husband-and-wife team who share job responsibilities inside the private estates of high-net-worth families. Typical duties split between them are cooking, cleaning, estate management, and maintenance.
Private PAs
Depending on how high-profile the principal is, they can have numerous PAs. The Personal Assistant’s job can range from picking up laundry to booking airline tickets. Any PA position, even at the EPA level, covers a myriad of all things from A-Z. Doing Personal Assistant work is an obvious first step to moving up to becoming an Executive PA.
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