Confessions of a billionaire’s PA: I earned £100k catering to the ultra rich. They’re not like you or I. This is the truth about what they buy, the bizarre bedroom status symbol and their degrading demands: ALEXANDRA GILMORE

The Netflix series played by Julianne Moore and Milly Alcock is defined as a dark comedy for the rich, control boss PA, which I will describe most of my old personal assistant roles.

They took me to the world by working for a list celebrities and ultra high -valuable individuals (Uhnwis). In the Hollywood Regency -style houses, which will be envied by art (Hockney, Chagall et al.) Worthy of the museum (Hockney, Chagall et al.), I was always cinematic and special for a lifestyle that is not similar to the fictional world of the sirens, magnificent gardens, magnificent infinity pools and special access beaches.

My working days did not have a scenario or director, but there was always drama. Yes, my hours took long, usually from 7 am to midnight, but the days were never boring. The plant was a dominant mantra.

The higher it is paid as an executive assistant (the higher PA works are known), it is a rule that is less free time. Salaries for high-level roles start at £ 100,000 if it is based on the US (GO-TE Ajans for the most popular roles lined up; Routine jobs, buying a house for buying cars, controlling interior renovations, sending, complex family travel arrangements, Truculent dealing with young people and gifts, many gifts. (Although I send anything as much as the fruit basket that looks big in the first part of the sirens.)

Entertainment ad elements, celebrities and ultra net valuable individuals have three different senior PA roles. In addition to durability skills, empathy and elegant taste, they demand different ‘corrective’ skill sets from multiple languages ​​to accounting capabilities. Having a healthy sense of humor also helps.

I still remember touching the Bahamas for a single role, I remember looking at the old actress wife who model a billionaire and the legendary American community ‘Swan’ CZ (known for its close ties with celebrities such as grace and Truman Capote). Gstaad, Cap d’Tibes, Bahamas, Beverly Hills and Como Lake jet set outposts, such as a staff of 80 people working on five houses and a yacht anchored in Cannes.

From real estate managers and suppliers to wider family and inner friends and agents, I have experienced an intense three -month preparation, including accelerating all the characters, and familiar with a list of their very special personal do’ler and not doing. Secondly, a strong perfume, no fake jewelry, no long nails, no heels, no black clothes, and it did not contain garlic or other spicy foods of heaven.

To help comply with these rules, a wardrobe was given (there was no certain amount, I only had to convey the receipts – dream!). Although not dressed like a doily (such as Simone Dewitt, which supports Milly Alcock’s Lilly Pulitzer X Goop dresses), my LBDs and my Armani teams, refined neutrals and quiet luxury staples-palazzo trousers Me+Em, COS White T-shirt, Tod’s to Footes, RAE Tüfür.

Style Muse’um Hyannis Port Jackie Kennedy idi-Vardiya dresses, flat Chanel-style pumps, crisp, white shirts and capri pants. I have archived my creed perfume for non -aggressive summer classic Clarins Eau Dynamisante.

Apart from the ski season, Uhnwis follows the sun throughout the year, so they always be ‘summer’ (if you don’t use it as a verb, you’re not really rich).

Milly Alcock’s character Simone serves as a special PA for the billionaire Patron Michaela played by Julianne Moore in Netflix’s latest limited series.

This means that you have end -air dinner parties, beach club reservations and bikini bodies to be protected to edit (you need to re -invented the blue and white table views). Planning a list of personal coaches was a relatively easy part of the role (despite frequent time changes) such as protecting a well -stocked cosmetic refrigerator full of expensive CLé de Peau and Sisley products for special beauty expert visits.

Managing unpredictable events, especially before the guest arrival, chasing wild boar running from broken antiques or flower beds, wardrobe faults and internal staff to solve the course was equal for the course.

High cylinders have obsessed with their health and longevity, so the majority of my role was to coordinate their appointments to stay in the Clinique La Prairie, Switzerland, Switzerland, Switzerland.

I worked with live medical staff who were ready to test blood pressure and give advice on diet. When MAYFAİR did not eat in the best restaurants in La or ST Tropez, the menus were usually a bland and repetitive (rarely ordered chicken salad without flashback), which resulted in an endless return of the dissatisfied and high -educated kitchen staff who did not elaborate Cordon Bleu skills.

In addition to food, flowers, feli -and -family problems, it was often the most difficulty.

Rule 1: Always be friends with a magnificent florist and never underestimated how the wrong flowers could explode a crisis (an old boss once had an epic melting because Orkide Table Center did not match the gratitude aesthetics. do you want?

Rule 2: Know how to clean the cat and similar domestic stains (an enzyme -based cleaner such as Nature’s Miracle Works Wonders), especially from Piero Lissoni suede sofas.

Rule 3: Make friends with the driver and real estate manager (Jose in Sirens). Politics in these housing roles are always difficult, but it is very important to get along with key team members such as cleaner and butler.

The higher it is paid as PA, the more you have less free time. Salaries for senior roles start at £ 100,000, and if you live more in the USA

I would describe the role as a mini coo (chief business officer). Most of the time, you have information that family members have not been educated in HR, and that they have a coordinated house staff, not always successfully, but a coordinated home staff.

There are too many backstabbing. Everyone wants their employers’ ears and goes face to face as much as possible to provide a better Christmas bonus. These may vary from designer bags to all expenses in the Caribbean to the paid holidays or significant controls.

The most important rule is to make your boss happy. The level of proximity in sirens is striking. Fortunately, I didn’t share gum or bed with any of my principles, but I listened to my fair share of the pillow speech.

They have always been obsessed with the Bedlins; I feed their addictions happily by ordering sets of sets with D. Porthault, Frette and Prates Monogram.

Unlike Simone, I rarely called my bosses with the first names – usually Madame or Sir – on the side of professionalism instead of acting as a criminal partner. To see if my principals are mentioned in gossip columns, visiting articles is another aspect of a role. If there was a bad photo and demand, I will let the editor remove it without any online. If a photo was collected, I would follow a printed copy and frame it.

In order to make Madame look at the piece, an internal fashion knowledge was necessary, especially how Couture elements would be protected. I ordered a ordered blouse and shirt from Charvet in Paris (if you know, you know) and the karaki sets for sir. ‘Overnighter’ Fashion requests squeezed – such a one would be arranged to get an armani Privé outfit from Milan and to fly to La in time for one anniversary dinner! Another overnighter was the delivery of a limited number of boots from another country. The supply of Hermès handbags and the delivery of PJs to PJs was often a rusy, so that usual taxes would not be paid.

Of course, there was ugly behavior. You will see managers in the lowest EBBs and the foamy forms that live under such claustrophobic conditions. A couple’s violent and angry frequent strife and the love of bling, especially Cartier and Bulgari. When another couple did not host guests, they liked to wear long T -shirts without lingerie all day, and reduced the risk of fungal infections, claiming that the commando was much healthier. (Personnel group chat would explode when the genital organ flashes were seen.)

‘Now get me out of here!’ When the director was stuck in a special jet on a very hot track in Texas, he once gave another regular order. A colleague remembers the order of buying a black taxi to travel from his boss on his bus lane and walk around London faster. Although the privatization of the mentioned taxi is more problematic, it was quite easy.

A ticket for a show for a show to supply the impossible, a suitcase in a hotel with a reservation, an invitation to Met Gala or a cover story for a bright magazine. Fortunately, when my own contacts could not help, there was a BBB-Right Black Book, a under-radar digital members club created to support the PAs of private customers, and provided access to a secret community of curatoric providers.

The BBB helped me to book the last minute at the Posh Hotel Hassler in Rome in the most intense season where all suits were taken, and the equivalent of chicken teeth-the limited number of Hermès Coffee Cup is now in production.

Many of them would say that my master’s degree in the languages ​​was wasted, but it was a different education that I wouldn’t miss. In addition to improving my durability and emotional intelligence, they provided a look at the veil of another lifestyle.

I have been in parties with Lists A, I marked many places on my bucket list, and I was with gifts and especially jewels, especially with gifts to Marco Biceko pieces. However, I did not overlook reality.

Almost always, these roles end like Satan Prada wearing Prada, Pa literally or metaphorically throws her phone into a fountain, her integrity is intact. Knowing when to leave the party, Simone Dewitt and the best advice I can give to others who are attractive to join their first ranks.

• Alexandra Gilmore is a pseudonym name.