Queen sues to ban ‘Royal Butler’ brand

THE Queen is taking legal action against Prince Charles’s former butler, who tried to trademark the name “The Royal Butler”.

Grant Harrold, who worked for the Prince of Wales from 2004 to 2011, uses the name with a golden crest on a website offering his etiquette courses.

At an Intellectual Property Office hearing, Mr Muir Wood, acting for the Queen, said: “It is possible members of the public would believe he is educating butlers on behalf of the Queen.”

He said a shot of Mr Harrold with a waxwork of Her Majesty at Madame Tussauds could also lead people to think he was posing alongside the real thing.

And he dismissed Mr Harrold’s business partner, Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, Prince Philip’s grand-niece, as not being a proper royal. Mr Harrold was not at the hearing, which will rule in six weeks.