This role saw him spend a considerable amount of time at Buckingham Palace, and he has gained a wealth of insight into what the palace was really like from a staff perspective.<\/p>\n
Mr Burrell even revealed in his new book that the iconic royal home was nicknamed \u201cGin Palace\u201d by staff, as the spirit would always be a drink of choice there.<\/p>\n
Writing in his new book The Royal Insider: My Life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana, Burrell said: \u201cForget Buckingham Palace, it was nicknamed \u2018Gin Palace\u2019 after the spirit that flowed freely through the everyday workings of the building.<\/p>\n
\u201cGin, always, Gordon\u2019s, was the drink of choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cI would be ordered by senior members of staff to empty a screw-topped tonic water bottle each night and fill it with gin for them to use for parties in their rooms.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese parties were for a select group of staff. There was a hierarchy downstairs as well as upstairs. Certain cliques of servants, depending on your rank and length of service, were invited to the soirees.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul Burrell has shared more revelations in his book, which was released just weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This role saw him spend a considerable amount of time at Buckingham Palace, and he has gained a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[2633,167113,167112,25612,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-511058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-buckingham-palace","9":"tag-buckingham-palace-nickname","10":"tag-buckingham-palace-paul-burrell","11":"tag-buckingham-palace-royal-family","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115398912629223893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511058","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=511058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}