Over the next few years, the Queen's new household began to form around her.
They are people who cannot afford to form new households.
This audience is often in the market for products and services related to setting up new households.
But that is changing; 100,000 new households are signing up for such services each week.
It is happening - with new households signing up at the rate of 100,000 a week.
When a son married he often established a new household and split off from the original family unit.
The population - in particular, the number of new households - is growing faster than the supply, he said.
This was a gift given to the new household at the time of marriage.
His father's new household isn't much of a refuge either.
And, he thought, it would certainly help the unity of his new household.