|
Former Royal butler Paul Burrell has insisted he will never betray the late Diana, Princess of Wales, saying: "I will always be her rock".
His declaration of loyalty to his ex-employer came in his first detailed television interview since his acquittal on theft charges.
In it Mr Burrell also disclosed that when he told the Queen he was keeping some of Diana's possessions shortly after her death, she did not ask him for any details of exactly what he had.
It was the Queen's remembering of the conversation - said by Mr Burrell to have lasted three hours - that triggered the end of his Old Bailey trial.
In an interview programme broadcast on ITV, Mr Burrell told interviewer Sir Trevor McDonald he told the monarch he was "keeping certain items safe".
'Presumptive and arrogant'
Asked whether the Queen would have known the full extent of the items, Mr Burrell replied: "She didn't ask me and I didn't tell her."
"That may sound rather presumptive and arrogant but it wasn't meant that way."
"All I said was that I was keeping certain items safe."
The man who was once a footman to the Queen spoke in his own words about his life, being Diana's "rock" and considering suicide at the time of his arrest.
|
