British butler

invidious

I'd like to hire a British butler in Mumbai - where can I get one? Even though I found a windmill on Ebay - I couldn't find the services of a British butler - if anyone knows where can I get one or if anyone reading this is interested in the job, do let me know.

Familyonthemove

I think you'll struggle to find a real Butler in Bombay .... but you could use an agency in the UK?

The Butlers Guild may help?

http://www.butlersguild.com/

But expect to pay over 20 lakh Rs for a trained butler

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blackbird

20 lakhs?!? maybe you'd be better off buying the windmill...

invidious

One of the guys there claims the following -

Children friendly

- Pet friendly


Err - is that a good thing or a bad thing?

capt_mahajan

Can I say, later on, that the butler did it?

invidious

Hell - one of the guys there is from bangalore and one from bhutan - I want a real British butler named Austin - with yellow teeth and a broad smile....

blackbird

I don't think we make them anymore....

Come to think of it, I don't think we make anything anymore.... apart from the occasional war....

Nick-H

And you'll expect him to wear formal butler uniform, whatever the weather?

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blackbird

I knew it! The dastardly scoundrel!

invidious

Of course, why get a Brit named Austin otherwise - if someone named Ramu would make do?

Nick-H

Oh, but we do!

Prince Charles has a butler farm; part of the Dutchy of Cornwall. Whilst they used to roam free over thousands of acres, it is now reduced to a small-holding which just supplies the Royal Family and immediate friends (if they are lucky, they may get one in a hamper at Christmas). But the annual Butler-upping ceremony is still entertaining for the handful of invited toffs.

blackbird

I bet they're organic an all!

invidious

Interesting - the have a farm for butlers?

Nick-H

...No doubt about it!

Nick-H

few hundred years ago it wasn't necessary. The Lord of the manor had the pick of any butler born in the village --- although the aristocracy had the right to pick theirs first, of course.

I have heard rumours of there being a few start-up attempts on the outskirts of Bangalore --- to produce Indian-Made Foreign Butlers. But customers complain that they can't understand the accents. Main problem is most of the Indian ones can pronounce the letter "R"