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Princess Diana’s former butler has said he is ready to “share his secrets” with Prince William and Prince Harry after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Paul Burrell, whom Diana refers to as her ‘rock’, served the princess for 10 years until his death in 1997. Now he says he feels the burden of Diana’s secrets entrusted to him during their years together and wants to tell his friends. two children. Before it is too late’.
The former butler and confidant says his illness has made the responsibility of telling William and Harry what he knows about their mother clearer.
Mr Burrell has also claimed that the information he has “could bring the children back together”, something he says Diana “would have wanted desperately”.
Princess Diana’s former butler has said he is ready to ‘share his secrets’ with Prince William and Prince Harry after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer (Diana and Paul Burrell appear together in 1997)
Mr Burrell has also claimed that the information he has “could bring the children back together”, something he says Diana “would have wanted desperately”. Diana is pictured with Harry and William during a visit to Thorpe Park in 1993.
The former butler and confidant says his illness has made the responsibility of telling William and Harry what he knows about their mother clearer. The brothers are photographed together last September.
burrell said Mirror: ‘I know some things aren’t pretty, but if I leave this place and go somewhere else, they’ll never know.
I think they should know.
“I think Diana would say to me, ‘Paul, you need to make this a priority. You need to go see my guys.'”
Mr Burrell revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis last month and said it made him fear that time was running out to “tell them the truth”.
He previously described himself as Diana’s “best friend” and alleged that she referred to him as “the only man she trusted”.
The former butler says he wants to “do my bit” to help mend the strained relationship between the two brothers.
He believes the information Diana entrusted to him may bring them closer, adding that the late princess would have wanted her children to be “stuck next to each other for the rest of their lives.”
Paul Burrell, (pictured) whom Diana refers to as her ‘rock’, served the princess for 10 years until his death in 1997. He now says he feels the burden of Diana’s secrets entrusted to him during their years together and wants to tell him two children ‘before it’s too late’
Former royal butler Paul Burrell with Diana in 1997, weeks before she was killed in a car accident with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed.
Mr Burrell confirmed he was battling prostate cancer last month, just weeks after hitting Harry back over claims he ‘exploited’ Diana’s death for money.
He also revealed that this month he will undergo an operation to remove the affected prostate.
He explained: “I’m tired, I’m on hormone therapy, it’s robbing me of testosterone so my beard isn’t growing as it should and I’m getting hot flashes.”
“In the summer I had to go in for a medical for a TV show he was doing and his duty of care was to go in for a full medical. And that resulted in a high level of a chemical PSA produced by the prostate.
He added: “I was wrapping Christmas presents and I was wondering ‘Am I going to be here next Christmas? I had to tell my kids and they said, “Dad, we need to see you more.”
The second most common form of cancer in men over the age of 50, prostate cancer affects the male reproductive system by infecting the small gland responsible for producing and transporting seminal fluid.
Mr Burell said: “I think Diana would tell me: ‘Paul, you need to make this a priority. You need to go see my boys.'” Pictured: Diana leaving St Paul’s Cathedral with Harry and William in 1990
Pictured: Diana takes Prince William and Henry Harry to London’s Wetherby School in 1989
In his controversial memoir Spare, Harry accused Burrell of “exploiting” Diana’s tragic death for money when he published his 2001 book A Royal Duty, which contained a wealth of private revelations.
But Last month, Burrell responded to Harry’s criticism, saying he doesn’t recognize the “young man I see today.”
He ishelp: ‘I first met him in his mom’s tummy. I don’t recognize the young man I see today. That’s not the boy I met.
“What I see now is an angry, smug, privileged prince who constantly blames other people and fails to take responsibility on his part.”
Burrell said the Duke of Sussex had “fundamentally changed” and his mother would be “appalled”.
“I would be angry at these personal and vindictive revelations that not only undermine Harry, but also his country, his family, the institution, of which his mother was so proud, and his late grandmother’s legacy,” she said.
Mr Burrell blamed Harry’s wife Meghan for the duke’s “vindictive” behaviour, claiming she was the one “driving him behind the scenes”.
He said: ‘This is not just a book written by Harry… Meghan has had a huge influence on this book. She is next to her directing him on his way. You can’t just blame Harry. You have to blame both of them.
“I don’t like to see the rug being pulled under the feet of our King and Harry’s brother, who is on his way to be King. And the snipes that got ahead of Kate [the Princess of Wales]…
‘Kate has never put a foot wrong. But the other side of the story will never be heard because the royals believe there is great dignity in silence.
In his memoirs, Harry said that Paul Burrell made his blood boil by publishing a book about Princess Diana called A Royal Duty.
When Mr Burrell published his book in 2001, Harry and William accused him of “cold open treason”.
In his memoir, Spare, Harry describes how he found out about the book when he was working as an unpaid farm hand in Australia at age 19 in 2003 after leaving Eton.
He writes that he received a package from Buckingham Palace, which was full of memos from the Palace communications team on “a sensitive matter”.
“Mom’s old butler had written a story that didn’t really say anything,” he said.
It was just one man’s self-righteous, self-centered version of the facts.
‘My mother once called this butler a dear friend, she trusted him implicitly. We also. Now this.
He was milking her demise for money. He made my blood boil.
Harry writes that he wanted to fly home to “confront” Mr. Burrell, but Charles and William talked him out of it, saying that all they could do was “issue united condemnation”.
The duke also claims that he had ‘nothing to do with the drafting’ of the Clarence House statement and would have ‘gone much further’.