- NPR, Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:47 AM
Jeeves wannabe? You may have prospects. The demand for butlers in some parts of the world has surged as the incredibly wealthy in markets like China,
Russia and Dubai, thanks to the PBS show "Downton Abbey," want to get their own trophy help. Thirty-five years ago, there were only a few hundred butlers left in Britain; today there are roughly
10,000, plus thousands more abroad, per writer David Katz.
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