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A Royal Duty: The poignant and remarkable untold story of the Princess of Wales

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He didn't have to be turned into a villain and nobody has benefited from him being turned into a villain. The meeting, which took place in 2017 at Kensington Palace, occurred just a week before Prince Harry announced his engagement to Meghan Markle. I love princess Diana even though I was only 3 when she died- but I love her personality and she seemed like such a soft spoken, beautiful woman we lost way too soon. In 2017, a divorced Burrell announced he was marrying his male partner, Graham Cooper, [27] a corporate lawyer he met ten years ago. Burrell welcomed a suggestions of meeting with Harry and William to justify his book and share accounts from Diana’s life that they had not witnessed.

So many times we put people on pedastals and don't realize they were real people with issues, neuroses, etc. Burrell became Diana's confidant and his unique perspective casts new light on the Princess of Wales and the events that would shape her life and the lives of those around her.The 64-year-old father of two adult sons is hence focusing on his marriage with husband Graham Cooper (2017), his love for travel, and his passion for painting at the moment, all the while expanding his online presence. The Way We Were reflects, remembers and celebrates the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and captures her vivacity and love of life as we move towards the tenth anniversary of her death in 2007. In early 2006, he appeared as Richard Gere on ITV's Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes, singing "Razzle Dazzle" from Chicago, the film version of the Broadway musical. He was nicknamed "Small Paul", to distinguish him from a taller footman, Paul Whybrew, who was known as "Tall Paul". In 2003, he published his autobiography, A Royal Duty, which included his personal account of his Royal service and his close friendship with the late princess, who was arguably one of the world’s most popular and beloved public figures.

Having read Paul Burrell's other book about being butler and confidant to Princess Diana, I wondered what additional information could be included in this book. There must have been some, though, with great egos and a thirst for the spotlight who, undoubtedly, were delighted to be publicly linked with the princess, and Burrell dropped names shamelessly.Burrell entered Royal Service at age 18 as a Buckingham Palace footman, becoming the Queen Elizabeth II's personal footman a year later. The High Peak College Buxton hotel management graduate actually became the Queen’s personal footman around a year later, which admittedly went far beyond anything he’d ever expected. Desperate for cash, Burrell says his wife was even forced to pawn her jewellery so they could feed their two sons, Alex and Nick. He said the Burrell revelations, and earlier scandals surrounding Prince Charles's servants, would not have surfaced "if the prince had been very strong and determined in saying this prosecution should not go ahead". From private and intimate family occasions at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace and the Royal Yacht Britannia to grand and lavish State Banquets for presidents, kings and queens.

Burrell says by that point the prosecution had given 11 days of damning evidence against him, without a response. Harry’s headline-grabbing autobiography Spare, which hit the shelves on Tuesday (Jan 10), was boosted into the record books with 400,000 hardback, e-book and audio format copies being snapped up, its publisher said. In January 2023, Burrell announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2022 and was receiving treatment.He was also widely credited with masterminding Camilla Parker Bowles's stealthy passage into public life alongside the prince. But he refers to me in the book only as ‘the butler’ which is one of his many jabs to many people in this book.

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