With the slimmed-down senior ranks of the Royal Family, could junior members step up?
There has been speculation about whether junior members of the Royal Family might step in to carry out official royal duties, but even in the face of a streamlining in the upper echelons of the family, that appears unlikely.
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There has been speculation about whether junior members of the Royal Family might step in to carry out official royal duties, but even in the face of a streamlining in the upper echelons of the family, that appears unlikely.