{"id":184858,"date":"2025-06-14T22:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/184858\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T22:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:42:14","slug":"talk-of-the-town-william-and-harry-agree-on-one-thing-dianas-ex-butler-paul-burrell-needs-to-keep-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/184858\/","title":{"rendered":"TALK OF THE TOWN: William and Harry agree on one thing – Diana’s ex-butler\u00a0Paul Burrell needs to keep quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s\u00a0rare that Princes William and Harry see eye-to-eye about anything these days \u2013 but the estranged brothers may find common ground in their fury that their mother’s ex-butler, Paul Burrell<\/a>, is about to betray her confidence yet again.<\/p>\n

The former Palace servant is set to release a third ‘intimate’ memoir, promising to reveal stories he felt he couldn’t share while the late Queen was still alive.<\/p>\n

But it risks evoking the ire of the Princes, as I’m told Burrell had promised he would stop exploiting his links to the late Princess Diana<\/a> in a tense meeting with the brothers.<\/p>\n

Sources tell me all three held a secret summit at Kensington Palace in November 2017 to tackle the issue. ‘It was awkward,’ one insider said. ‘William led the meeting and did all the talking, but Harry was silently seething that Burrell had betrayed their mother for financial gain time and time again.<\/p>\n

‘Eventually Paul agreed it was time to stop, and he hoped it would be a new chapter in his relationship with the boys.’<\/p>\n

Yet the man Diana once called her ‘rock’ seems to have reneged on that deal, with a new book The Royal Insider \u2013with a picture of himself and Diana on the cover \u2013 due out in September.<\/p>\n

The Princes are now bracing themselves for what he might reveal as he vows to ‘speak candidly about the tensions that simmered’ during his time at the Palace \u2013 ‘including the breakdown of Charles and Diana’s marriage and his own complex relationship with Princes William and Harry’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Publishers Sphere add: ‘It is only in the wake of the Queen’s passing… Burrell feels he can finally tell his story in full.’<\/p>\n

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Pictured: Princess Diana with her former butler Paul Burrell – the ex-Palace servant is set to release a third ‘intimate’ memoir<\/p>\n

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It’s rare that Princes William and Harry see eye-to-eye about anything these days\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The man Diana once called her ‘rock’ seems to have reneged on that deal, with a new book The Royal Insider<\/p>\n

Socialites head to Lola’s Bute camp<\/p>\n

Lady Lola Bute last week hosted her London It Girl pals at her palatial home on Ibiza, including Romeo Beckham\u2019s recent ex Kim Turnbull and model Lila Moss.<\/a><\/p>\n

I hear Lady Lola, 25, has also been a consultant on a new TV show, Magnolia Parks, described as a London version of US hit Gossip Girl and based on a book about a \u2018beautiful, affluent, neurotic and self-involved\u2019 socialite.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wonder which of her inner circle she used for inspiration?<\/p>\n

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Pictured:\u00a0Lady Lola Bute, 25, (left) with model Lila Moss (right) in Ibiza<\/p>\n

Will Gibbs fall for his nibs?<\/p>\n

I suspect Perry Pearson won\u2019t be nursing a broken heart for too long after his split from Game Of Thrones actress Sophie Turner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I hear friends of the heir to the Cowdray estate in Sussex are trying to play Cupid and set him up with socialite and horse racing presenter Flora Gibbs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So has Perry asked her out on a date yet? \u2018No comment,\u2019 Flora tells me with a knowing smile while partying at the Boodles Boxing Ball last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Watch this space\u2026<\/p>\n

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Pictured: Socialite and horse racing presenter Flora Gibbs at\u00a0Chestertons Polo<\/p>\n

Brooklyn’s ex gets cosy with polo ace<\/p>\n

Does Hana Cross, the ex-girlfriend of Brooklyn Beckham, have her sights set on another well-connected man<\/a>?\u00a0<\/p>\n

I hear the glamorous model was seen looking cosy and chatting animatedly last week with Polo England captain Tommy Severn at Polo in the Park in Fulham.<\/p>\n

Hana has become a bit of an amateur polo player herself, saddling up at the illustrious Guards Polo club in Windsor Great Park last month.<\/p>\n

Severn, who used to play polo with Prince Harry<\/a> and formerly dated footballer Michael Owen\u2019s daughter Gemma, recently told me how he thought his royal pal\u2019s heavily lambasted Netflix documentary Polo was \u2018very weird\u2019.<\/p>\n

I wonder if he\u2019s ever invited Hana for a chukka?<\/p>\n

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Pictured:\u00a0Hana Cross, the ex-girlfriend of Brooklyn Beckham –\u00a0I hear the glamorous model was seen looking cosy and chatting animatedly last week with Polo England captain Tommy Severn<\/p>\n

Jackie goes posh<\/p>\n

Even Cruz Beckham admits he can sometimes get his Brazilian girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 30, and his mother Victoria confused due to their uncanny resemblance<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So I wonder what the 20-year-old aspiring musician will make of Jackie sporting a fresh dark bob strikingly reminiscent of Posh\u2019s hairstyle from her 1990s Spice Girls heyday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Surely a case of when Two Become One!<\/p>\n

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I wonder what the 20-year-old aspiring musician will make of Jackie sporting a fresh dark bob (right) strikingly reminiscent of Posh\u2019s hairstyle from her 1990s Spice Girls heyday (left)<\/p>\n

Superstar DJ Calvin Harris\u2019s plans to build a padel court at his \u00a36 million Cotswolds property have been held up by (no pun intended) bats.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The palatial pile is home to so many of the protected mammals that Harris must build an outbuilding to house them before any work on the court can begin.<\/p>\n

\u00a0His ambitious plans for the house also include a reflection pool, hot yoga studio, sunken firepit, teepee and campfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s\u00a0rare that Princes William and Harry see eye-to-eye about anything these days \u2013 but the estranged brothers may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,92,7721,7719,7718,257,7720,1281,75746,447,7710,519,813,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-184858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","11":"tag-duke-of-sussex","12":"tag-harry","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-meghan","15":"tag-meghan-markle","16":"tag-paul-burrell","17":"tag-prince-harry","18":"tag-royal-families","19":"tag-royal-family","20":"tag-tvshowbiz","21":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114684136753654619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}