Princess Diana’s blabbing butler was under fire last night after admitting he fudged quotes from several of her personal letters in his new kiss-and-tell book.
Paul Burrell at first insisted that his tome, “A Royal Duty,” which chronicles Diana’s disastrous marriage to Prince Charles, used direct passages from several letters in Diana’s handwriting and one from her brother Earl Spencer.
But he now admits he didn’t have the notes and worked from memory.
When a BBC Radio interviewer asked Burrell about a note he quoted from Diana’s brother Earl Spencer accusing the princess of instability, he confessed, “I don’t have these letters. I took a mental note or a note in my journal that these things happened.”
Burrell’s bombshell confession casts doubt about many of the scandalous claims he makes in the tell-all, which hit bookstores this week.