I was devoted to the Royal Family for many years-first to the Queen, then to the Prince of Wales and finally to the Princess and I remain a loyal subject.

There I was on a secluded beach on a very expensive little island with my hand-painted t-shirts displayed in coconut and sea grape trees when a lady comes over and starts going through them. My friend, on hearing this, who had the only hotel on an even tinier island sent over to Princess Diana's hotel a selection of sarongs.my aim was lady Di biography so dropped it and watched a 3 hours documentary about her life and her interview with Martin Bashir instead. Paul presides over the break-up of Charles and Di's marriage, lying here, covering up there, spying there.

Although the book's title and cover makes it seem like the focus will be primarily on the Princess of Wales through the author's eyes, readers end up being treated to three different biographical views in one - the autobiography of the author Paul Burrell and biographies of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana (and her family) during his time as footman and butler, respectively. If this won't deprive Charles of his throne, it could still scupper any plans for marrying his mistress.

Now, at last, Paul Burrell cuts through the gossip and the lies and takes us closer to the complex heart of the Royal Family than ever before. As a unique witness to Royal history, he is regularly asked to participate in TV and film documentaries. in actual fact i found that this was a very even handed account - only mildly sensational and other than that, just a really interesting insight into the way the royal family functions. I didn't figure out why until the end, because I didn't realize that he'd been taken to court (supposedly by the Royal Family, but actually by the Spencers), and accused of stealing from Diana's estate.

The parts about his trial and the life of Princess Diana would only really be enjoyed by a Diana fanatic, and I'm not one. As for Burrell: his claims to be record-keeping should be resisted until he is more open about his sources. Then we have Paul marrying a housemaid and leaving Buckingham Palace to go down to Highgrove with the newly married Prince Charles and Princess Diana. I was going to say he doesn't have the common touch, but I'd be wrong, he has Camilla, and you can't get more common than that.

In actuality, his travels included far more than Great Britain and Europe, as his years of service gave him first‐hand experience of the most interesting houses in virtually every corner of the world. Still, strewn through Burrell's disorganised, often flaky memoirs - part therapy and part history, part gossip and part eulogy - are treasurable descriptions of the domestic life of the weird and helpless Windsors.

I think most British people remember where they were/what they doing when they heard about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.There she was in that huge meringue dress, still a teenager, marrying a prince who said, at their engagement when asked by a reporter, that yes he did love Diana, "whatever love is" and gave Camilla a bracelet with their entwined initials the night before his wedding. Burrell learned that his first duty was invisibility: "At Sandringham House, maids would dart into a walk-in cupboard under the stairs so as not to be seen when the Queen was coming down the stairs.