BUTLER SPEAKS OF DIANA’S RELATIONSHIPS
Princess’s former butler makes sensational claims about Muslim lovers in new documentary
PRINCESS Diana’s mother called her a “whore” for dating Muslim men, it has been claimed.
The claim has been made by Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell in a new documentary called
which focuses on Countess Raine Spencer, and her impact on the Princess.
But the programme also makes some surprising claims about her relationship with her mother, Frances Shand Kydd.
The special features interviews with close friends and staff of both women.
Burrell, 61, served as a footman to Queen Elizabeth II before he began working for Diana in 1987 until her death a decade later.
While the documentary focuses on the rivalry between Diana and her stepmother, Raine, it was the royal’s relationship with her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, that will leave audiences stunned.
Burrell told Fox News: “I was in my little pantry underneath the main staircase of Kensington Palace and I could hear this sobbing coming out of (Diana’s) room.
“Then she shouted, ‘Paul, please come. Come quick.’ So I ran up the staircase, and I found the princess crumpled in the middle of her room with the telephone to her ear, and she beckoned me to come closer. I could hear what her mother was saying.
“She said, ‘Listen. Listen to what mummy’s saying.’”
Burrell claims that Shand Kydd had been drinking that evening and was berating the Princess.
Diana previously had a relationship with two Muslim men, heart surgeon Hasnat Khan and Dodi Fayed, the son of billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed.
He added that she said : “‘That’s what you are. I’ve raised a wh***, who **** around town with Muslim men. You should be ashamed of yourself.”
“Diana was sobbing, saying, ‘Mummy, please don’t say those words to me.
“Please don’t call me those names. She begged her. She kept begging her not to say it.
“Her mother had to live with that guilt after Diana’s death,” said Burrell. “She came to me and said, ‘Surely I’ll be forgiven now, won’t I?’ I said, ‘Mrs Shand Kydd, I can’t give you absolution. I’m not the right person to come to. ‘ I couldn’t.”
Meanwhile, Raine Spencer, who reconciled with Diana after a decades-long feud over the royal’s father, Earl Edward John Spencer, was in favour of the princess’s relationship with Al-Fayed, the son of billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed.
“She loved it, of course,” said Burrell. “She felt it was the coming together of the Al-Fayeds and the House of Spencer. And she saw this… as a match made in heaven.
“Raine came to see me the day after Diana died,” Burrell claimed.
“I gave her tea in the drawing room, as I know the princess would want me to do. She took my hand and said, ‘If only they could have lived, they would have been so happy together.’
“I didn’t personally think the princess was in love with Dodi Al-Fayed. I think her love was still with Hasnat Khan. But I couldn’t go through all of that. Raine was devastated.”