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Though the Duke of Cambridge is believed to be the first member of
The Royal Family to sign a civilian employment contract, this
didn’t stop the charity being mentioned in 838 publications across
the globe within 24 hours of the Duke’s new career disclosure,
although whether this will see an increase in fundraising for the
charity remains to be seen. A spokeswoman for the charity
commented, “The feeling among air ambulance charities and the
Association of Air Ambulances is that everybody is delighted about
how this is really raising awareness of air ambulance charities in
general and how regular fundraising supports those charities across
the UK.”
Like all other East Anglian Air Ambulance pilots, The Duke of
Cambridge will be formally employed by Bond Air Services from which
he will receive a full salary, which he announced he will be
donating, in full, to charitable causes.
It can be assumed that Prince William’s appointment did wonders for
the charity’s Twitter site too. On a normal day, the charity posts
around fourteen times and receives a very respectable twenty
‘retweets’. Subsequently after the announcement, an astonishing two
million people saw the charity’s tweet confirming the news and the
tweet received 164 ‘retweets’, now for Twitter legends this may
seem a meagre amount however for a charity that was barely in the
spotlight before, this is a staggering amount of publicity.
As a result of the new career, it was consequently announced that
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the recently
announced Baby Cambridge number two would be making a move to East
Anglia in order to be closer to William’s work. It is thought that
the family will take up residence at Amner Hall, a ten bedroomed
house on The Queen’s Sandringham Estate.
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