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The butler’s done it: Diana’s
friends trash tell-all book
By Audrey Wods
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — Princess
Diana’s friends call her ex-butler
a vulture. He accuses royal
courtiers of poisoning the minds
of princes William and Harry.
The butler’s wife aims brickbats
at Buckingham Palace.
And that’s only so far: Paul
Burrell’s memoirs don’t hit
British bookstores until Monday.
Burrell is a “runaway train”
with much distance yet to travel,
former Buckingham Palace press
spokesman Dickie Arbiter said in
a weekend exchange of unpleas
antries by all sides in the latest
Diana dustup.
The Daily Mirror’s serializa
tion of Burrell’s “A Royal Duty”
has treated millions of readers to
his intimate view of Princess
Diana’s life, including private
correspondence from her former
father-in-law, FYince Philip, and
her brother, Earl Spencer.
Prince William and Prince
Harry, who have known Burrell
since early childhood, issued a
strong statement Friday, accusing
him of a “cold and overt
betrayal” of their mother that
would have mortified Diana were
she alive.
“My only intention in writing
this book was to defend the
princess and stand in her comer,”
Burrell replied.
In an interview published in
The Sunday Times, the ex-butler
was quoted as saying, “The
princes’ little minds were poi
soned. I don’t know what
courtiers have said to them.”
The Sunday Times quoted an
unidentified spokeswoman for
Clarence House, the London
home of Prince Charles and his
sons, as saying their statement
was “a heartfelt reaction by two
young men
who cannot
take any more.”
In the
months after
Diana’s fatal
August 1997
car crash in
Paris, Burrell
vowed repeat
edly never to
divulge her
secrets. One of
the first to
appear in the
Daily Mirror
serialization
last week was a letter he said
Diana had written to him, saying
she feared someone wanted to
harm her and was going to tamp
er with the brakes of her car.
Although a French judge ruled
that the car crashed due to its high
speed and the effect of alcohol
and drugs on fatally injured driv
er Henri Paul, some insist the
crash was not an accident.
Publication of the letter prompted
Mohammed A1 Fayed, father of
Diana’s companion Dodi Fayed,
who died in the crash with her, to
renew his allegations that they
were murdered.
Rosa Monckton, one of
Diana’s closest friends, who
rarely comments publicly about
the princess, wrote in The Sunday
Telegraph about that letter.
“This was by no means the
only time that ludicrous ideas
were put into her head by the sort
of people who always prey upon
vulnerable
women in high
places —
astrologers, so-
called mystics
and other pagan
riffraff,’’
Monckton said.
She said
Burrell, better
than most, knew
how hounded the
princess was
during her life,
“and yet now he
joins the rest of
the vultures who
had the task of looking after her,
in picking over the bones of her
existence in his book.”
The letters said to be from
Prince Philip held Diana partly
responsible for the breakdown of
her marriage. He also purportedly
wrote to tell her he “never
dreamed” Prince Charles would
leave her for his longtime com
panion, Camilla Parker Bowles.
Vivienne Parry, another
friend and a former trustee of
Princess Diana’s memorial
fund, described Burrell’s book
as “cynical.”
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My only intention
in writing this book
was to defend the
princess and stand in
her corner.
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Princess Diana's butler
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wrestling with his consciem
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wrestling with is which leu
to draw from the capacioe
file marked ’P’ for pens;-
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sion Sunday.
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years fighting accusations ih
he stole more than 300 iters
from the princess and otherro
als, and went on trial last yea
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November when Ques
Elizabeth II announced these
vant had told her five yearset
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Diana’s papers for safekeepir;
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is getting into the fray.
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was quoted as saying, ‘l
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one to focus on the plight:
William and Harry, but wh
about my boys? No one ga:
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their dad was dragged to coe
and threatened with prisonwhe
all he did was protect Prince:
Diana’s world.”
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spokesman, predicted Dime!
was not finished with his revel-
lions — even with the publish
ing of his book.
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train here and it is not going!
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