Princess Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell demanded an apology from Prince Harry after the exiled royal testified Tuesday that he had once accused him of selling his mother’s possessions and call him a “two-faced s–t”.
Burrell, who worked for Diana for more than a decade before her 1997 death, called on Harry, 38, to fess up to “defamatory” statements made about him in London’s High Court Tuesday amid his legal gripe with Mirror Group Newspapers.
While on the stand, the Duke of Sussex admitted to calling Burrell the epithet and labeling him “attention-seeking and self-interested” in a 2003 voicemail to his brother Prince William that was reported on by The People.
In a sworn statement to the court, Harry said he and William, 40, “had very strong feelings about how indiscreet Paul had proven to be with the way he had sold our mother’s possessions and how he had given numerous interviews about her.”
Now Burrell — who has been frequently quoted in bombastic interviews about the late princess and the royal family — has demanded Harry to “stop” his claims as he faces a second day of testimony in connection with his lawsuit against the UK newspaper conglomerate.
“I’m finding this deeply upsetting and hurtful,” Burrell told GB News. “I need to process what has been said. I think it is careless and callous, what Harry has said in court.”
“He seems to be living in an alternate world, a world which is deluded. He seems to be able to say whatever he can and whatever he wants to.”
Burrell said that Harry’s sworn statements that he had been selling Diana’s possessions were “not true” and “defamatory.”
“I want him to apologize because it’s not true. He knows fully well I have always protected and loved his mother, and himself and William when they were younger,” Burrell fumed.
“I don’t know what tangent he’s gone off here because it’s not true, it simply isn’t.”
“I think he thinks this is a PR exercise and he doesn’t care what casualties he has in the process of putting forward his fight against the media,” he continued. “He complained in ‘Spare’ that he was put on Camilla’s PR altar and sacrificed, he is doing the same thing.”
“I am not a ‘two-faced s–t. Don’t say these things. I was blamed for doing something I didn’t do,” Burrell noted.
In the courtroom Tuesday, Harry referred to a 2003 article published in The People that alleged he used the unflattering epithet during an argument with William over a potential meeting with Burrell.
“I was leaving voicemails for my brother … and that is a term I used to describe Mr. Burrell, yeah,” Harry said when pressed by Andrew Green, the lawyer representing the Mirror, about the alleged conversation.
The flame-haired prince has accused Mirror Group Newspapers of using phone-hacking and other unethical tactics to obtain information on him throughout his life.
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