Drop everything: Kate Middleton needs a new private secretary

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Sasha Lekach
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Drop everything: Kate Middleton needs a new private secretary
Private Secretary Rebecca Deacon's job working for Princess Kate is available. Credit: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

It's a job fit for a queen -- or at least an aspiring princess.

Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, needs a new private secretary, which is a personal helper, which is really a glorified servant. But you get to be close to a princess all the time!

That could be you in the picture above, carrying all the things, trying to fade into the background while being helpful to your royal boss and wearing heels.

The current secretary, Rebecca Deacon, is leaving her post after many years with Princess Kate. She steps down this summer, according to Vanity Fair. So now that leaves an opening.

The Royal Household jobs page doesn't yet list the secretary role but it looks like this isn't going to be a quick cover letter and resume type of application process.

The gig probably requires some deep inside connections. And you have to be really good at private secretary duties, such as briefing the Duchess on who everyone is (you should be able to master the whisper in the ear without being super distracting) and setting up events, meetings and engagements. Basically organizing everything that the princess does.

We're envisioning something like this from HBO's Veep, but more British:

Naturally, the news was met with excitement on Twitter.

Good luck to all the Princess Kate superfans who probably won't get the job.

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Sasha Lekach

Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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