He said: “We thought that the Queen would be there forever. We thought that she’d be at least 100, we thought that she’d live to be as old as her mother.<\/p>\n
“I think that because of her passing and at the same time, I was reflecting on my own mortality and thought that I might not have much longer to write this down, so I better get it done.<\/p>\n
I spent hours just actually pouring my feelings down onto paper. Life is just a tapestry of memories and then it’s over.”<\/p>\n
Revealing his reason, he added: “I wanted to share mine before it’s too late.”<\/p>\n
Speaking of both the late Queen, died in 2022, and Diana, who died in 1997, Paul also descibed the two royals as “incredible and inspirational”.<\/p>\n
Sharing what the Queen meant to him, he added: “[The late Queen] saved me from myself. When I was just a young lad coming to London, I didn’t know anything about life.”<\/p>\n
Recalling his 11 years working for the late monarch, he added: “She looked after me and for that I’ll be forever grateful. She also looked after so many other people behind the scenes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: “We thought that the Queen would be there forever. We thought that she’d be at least…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,2830,1760,75746,112988,112989,2831,1763,7710,519,112990],"class_list":{"0":"post-308312","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-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-diana","12":"tag-king-charles","13":"tag-paul-burrell","14":"tag-paul-burrell-book","15":"tag-paul-burrell-new-book","16":"tag-princess-of-wales","17":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","18":"tag-royal-families","19":"tag-royal-family","20":"tag-the-royal-insider"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114951582261271246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308312","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=308312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}