Burrell: Diana wouldn’t have stood for boys’ row
PRINCESS Diana would have “banged her sons’ heads together” to end their feud, her former butler said yesterday.
Paul Burrell also claimed that the late royal worried what William and Harry would think of her revelations in the Panorama interview.
And he said he expected Harry to get fed up with Los Angeles and move back to the UK.
Speaking to Lorraine Kelly on her ITV show, Burrell said: “You know, there’s a void open between William and Harry, and that void should be filled by their mother.
“She would be the one to bring them back together again and she’d probably bang their heads together and say, ‘ Come on now, don’t be so silly and let’s get on with this’.”
Some royal watchers have claimed the brothers’ rift stems from their childhood, with William being treated differently.
But Burrell, 62, said: “[ Diana] knew that one would be king one day and one wouldn’t.
But everywhere she went with the children they were both the same. “They were both her boys and she would want them to stand sideby- side.” He recalled that when Diana spoke on TV to Martin Bashir “she wished she hadn’t said so much, she said to me once, because what she feared was what the boys would think.
“She feared the reaction from them because they were still children and to hear their mother say on national television, yes she was in love with James Hewitt and she adored him, that would have repercussions on her children. And she was always thinking about her boys. Her boys were the centre of her world. They were her life. Nothing came before her children.”
He predicted that Harry and Meghan will give a similar interview in the US. He said: “You know it happens in all families, up and down the country, you know people are saying, ‘ Well my son married a strong independent woman and led him on a different path’.
“That’s exactly what’s happened to Harry. He’s married this woman who has ideas of her own. He’s so besotted by her, he’s totally in love with her, she can’t do any wrong.
“So now he’s being led along her path. It won’t always be that way because I personally cannot see Harry happy in Los Angeles.
“All his friends, his family and his culture are back here in England.
“He’s not going to stand that for ever.”