While private butlers remain fairly homogenous, in the hospitality industry, the demographic has changed considerably.
Best of all are the hyperefficient butlers--supporting characters for the dramatic fantasy life being proffered.
Donald Duck was forever doing battle with dehumanising technology, from robot butlers to mechanical barbers.
There have been renewed calls for a slimmer and more modern monarchy (fewer butlers, anyone?).
Like British nannies, another profession that has had brushes with scandal, the butlers' brand will recover.
Thirty horses, six butlers and four lorryloads of luggage accompanied the family to their holiday cottage.
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There are five butlers on the Crystal Symphony, each tending to 14 cabins on the Penthouse Deck.
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As much as they're enjoying their new home, the Butlers' favorite feature is across their bluestone courtyard.
"The butlers and ushers of the Executive Mansion are held over because they are civil-service workers, " Downs said.
Chairman of the Guild, Robert Wennekes, said the UK probably had 10, 000 butlers today, with about 25% being female.
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Rich men rarely seek lessons in ethics from their butlers or their bankers.
Yes, he's puffing contentedly on a postlunch cigar as he is served tea by two butlers in crisp white uniforms.
Even the most apparently anachronistic of servants, butlers and valets, survive, though with the same shift from living-in to self-employment.
That was before companies like BCCG made it possible to summon butlers, drivers and gofers with a click or a call.
Toast master extraordinaire Ivor Spencer should know -- he has orchestrated over a thousand royal events and trained dozens of butlers.
Choose from villas on the beach or jutting off a long pier over the turquoise lagoon at this 44-acre Bora Bora resort (both types have butlers).
The piano was purchased by the Butler family of Buffalo in the early 1940s and for years was displayed in the Butlers' opulent mansion in the city.
Just like their butlers, employers ought to get everything right.
Waldorf Astoria Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates is another property to watch: Guests can take advantage of a helipad, private butlers, golf course and private beach.
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Although robot butlers remain a distant dream, if people are ever to interact with robots in a comfortable way those robots will need to avoid making users' skins crawl.
There were a total of 19.4 million Lambert and Butlers and 10.9 million Regal cigarettes in the three containers bound for Glasgow, all of which are believed to be counterfeit.
When they moved in, the Butlers had an open house "so that the neighbors wouldn't be so angry there was such a big house on their street, " Ms. Butler said.
He employed scouts to follow potential clients, bribe their butlers and sort through their bins, all in an effort to collect any scrap that might prove useful to a sale.
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According to the International Guild of Professional Butlers, 30, 000 butlers were employed in Britain in the late 1930s, but that number sank to a low of about 100 in the 1980s.
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Back home, Mr Ginsberg practised yoga and other forms of meditation, declaring them to be superior to drugs, and became a devotee of a guru who dressed his staff as English butlers.
Mr. Martin expected the Butlers to reject his first sketch: a tall, skinny home much more ambitious in design, disproportionate in scale and costly to build than the surrounding homes in the area.
Veteran Crystal clients get attached to their butlers.
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Despite a burgeoning supply from China and demand from the Middle East, Josephine Ive, who heads up Magnums Butlers and trains 600 Chinese service staff yearly, says her students are often hesitant to make the trip.
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