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Paul Burrell, former butler to Princess Diana, took umbrage when he was charged with stealing hundreds of her personal items with the intention of profiting from their sale. He insisted he was merely safeguarding her image by keeping the belongings in his loyal hands. Now that he's been acquitted of the charges after the Queen stepped in to defend him, Burrell is profiting not from Diana's belongings but from her life story. The tabloid Daily Mirror has paid him a reported $400,000 for exclusive details of Diana's life, and he is singing like a canary, claiming...
First you're accused of stealing from the People's Princess. Then the Queen speaks up and you're cleared of all charges - but that's when your reputation really starts to take a pounding. For Paul Burrell, the former butler to Princess Diana, life has been like that ever since six of London's tabloids began hounding him mercilessly. Burell's real crime: selling his story to another paper. Two weeks ago Burrell was riding a wave of public sympathy. His trial for stealing 310 of Diana's items, from handbags to photos to a ceremonial sword, collapsed when...
...didn't lift the veil much on Diana, but he savaged the Spencer family, whom he feels abused her and stoked his prosecution. He said her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, phoned Diana six months before her fatal accident with a "hate-filled, personal attack" for dating Muslims, prompting the Princess to cry on Burrell's shoulder. That was the last time the mother and daughter spoke. He called Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, a hypocrite for championing her against the Windsors in his famous eulogy at Westminster Abbey, because "in life she had been unacceptable to him." But Burrell...
...VACQUITTED. PAUL BURRELL, 44, former footman of Queen Elizabeth II who went on to become the butler and confidante of Princess Diana, of stealing more than 300 of the Princess' personal belongings; in London. Prosecutors dropped the case after the unusual intervention of the Queen and before Burrell was called to testify...
...trial of Paul Burrell filled the British press corps with gleeful anticipation. The former butler to Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured with Burrell in 1997), was accused of stealing hundreds of personal items, including clothing, letters and photos, from his employer, and there was the possibility that members of the royal family would be called to testify and perhaps even reveal intimate secrets. But it was not to be. Twelve days into the trial, Queen Elizabeth suddenly remembered a salient tidbit of information that dramatically, and conveniently, ended the proceedings. While prosecutors claimed Burrell had unlawfully secreted Diana's possessions...