{"id":418475,"date":"2025-09-12T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418475\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:50:10","slug":"princess-dianas-butler-lifts-lid-on-kings-excessive-rules-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418475\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana\u2019s butler lifts lid on King\u2019s \u2018excessive\u2019 rules | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Royal insider Paul Burrell <\/a>has revealed the secrets behind His Majesty the King’s inflexible daily regime, claiming the 76-year-old monarch has always demanded his staff adhere to exceptionally stringent protocols.<\/p>\n

Burrell, who began his royal career as an 18-year-old footman at Buckingham Palace<\/a>, transferred in 1987 to Highgrove House in Gloucestershire to join the then Prince of Wales\u2019s domestic team.<\/p>\n

For ten years, he served as both aide and trusted confidant to Princess Diana<\/a> \u2013 famously declaring himself “the only man she ever trusted.”<\/p>\n

However, his bond with her spouse remained considerably more formal, he reveals.<\/p>\n

In his latest publication, The Royal Insider: My Life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana<\/a>, he describes how, despite being merely nine years junior to the King, he consistently felt “much older and from a different generation.”<\/p>\n

Burrell proceeds to expose the King’s contradictory fixation with avoiding waste, which he claims conflicts sharply with some of his peculiar personal practices.<\/p>\n

“His routines have never changed,” Burrell writes. “His toothpaste is squeezed onto his toothbrush every morning and he uses a silver key, which winds down the tube to avoid any waste.”<\/p>\n

However, while Charles professes to “abhor” waste, Burrell claims he demonstrates curious extravagance regarding his wardrobe: “His pyjamas are laundered or pressed every day, the drawstring tapes pressed flat like his shoelaces.<\/p>\n

“He, again like his father, likes his dress shoes to be ‘spit-and-polished’ to a mirror finish.”<\/p>\n

The royals are known for their peculiar dietary habits. For instance, the King has a strict no-garlic rule, as revealed by Queen Camilla on MasterChef Australia, where she stated that garlic “is a no-no” for the King.<\/p>\n

Since 2008, he has boycotted foie gras over concerns about animal cruelty in its production.<\/p>\n

The late Queen Elizabeth II, the King\u2019s mother, also had stringent food rules. She avoided carbohydrates during her evening meals.<\/p>\n

Former Buckingham Palace chef Darren O\u2019Grady told The Telegraph, \u201cWhen she dines on her own, she\u2019s very disciplined: no starch is the rule, and no potatoes, rice, or pasta for dinner\u2014just usually something like grilled sole with vegetables and salad.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, this no-pasta rule would not sit well with Prince George. The future king reportedly loves spaghetti carbonara, according to renowned chef Aldo Zilli.<\/p>\n

The Italian-born cook shared that Prince William<\/a> himself informed him of his son\u2019s fondness for the dish.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cI\u2019m waiting for the call because apparently his little boy\u2019s favourite is spaghetti carbonara, so I\u2019m waiting for the call to go and cook it for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf George has my carbonara, he will never have another one,\u201d Aldo added. \u201cSo I need to go and make it. Let\u2019s get the ball rolling\u2014send me to the palace to cook!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal insider Paul Burrell has revealed the secrets behind His Majesty the King’s inflexible daily regime, claiming the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,133670,1760,518,75746,7710,519,143351],"class_list":{"0":"post-418475","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-dietary-habits","12":"tag-king-charles","13":"tag-king-charles-iii","14":"tag-paul-burrell","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-royal-protocols"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115191416378098068","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418475","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=418475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}