Paul Burrell

Paul Burrell ( born June 6, 1958 in Grass Moor in Chesterfield ) was 1976-1997 a member of the court of the British monarchy.

Life

Initially he worked as a lackey (English Footman ) for Queen Elizabeth II; In 1987 he became servants ( Butler) of Princess Diana and Prince Charles at Highgrove House. After their separation, he worked from the end of 1992 as a butler of Diana at Kensington Palace. In recognition of his services to the royal family, the Queen gave him in November 1997, the " Royal Victorian Medal". His knowledge of etiquette, especially the courtly manners, he summed together later in his book Entertaining With Style.

After the death of Princess Diana, he lost his job and was hired as a fundraiser for the Diana Memorial Fund Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. Later, he was accused by relatives of Diana of theft and arrested in January 2001 by Scotland Yard. The strained against him criminal trial at the Old Bailey but was set in 2002, probably after an intervention by the Queen.

Together with his wife he started in 2001 to a flower shop in his home in Farndon Chester. About his past life he wrote ( according to own data from April 2003 ) is a reminder and tell-all book entitled In the service of my queen ( original title: A Royal Duty), which became a bestseller. Bears: - and last, according to the preface - memory book about Princess Diana, entitled The time with her ( The Way We Were Original Title ) In December 2006, his second appeared. Burrell was raised in both books as his closest confidants mistress is; the importance it had in fact for them is controversial.

In January 2008, he had to appear as a witness in the course of the newly rolled-up investigations into the deaths of Diana by the British coroner in London.

Works ( in German )

• In the service of my queen. Droemer, Munich 2003; Paperback ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-426-77786- X
• The time with her. Memories of Diana. Knaur, Munich 2006; Paperback ibid. 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-78021-3