DIANA’S FORMER BUTLER BREAKS SILENCE ON EARL SPENCER’S BOMBSHELL BOOK — PAUL BURRELL CLAIMS IT’S “MORE ABOUT HIM” THAN HIS SISTER

Princess Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell has delivered a blistering response to Earl Spencer’s new book, challenging his account of King Charles following Diana’s death and claiming the memoir reveals more about Spencer himself than the late Princess.

Speaking exclusively to Piers Morgan, Burrell disputed Spencer’s description of Charles as “giddy with excitement” after Diana died in Paris in 1997.

Burrell said he was there when Charles arrived in the French capital and witnessed the King at close quarters.

“He was a broken man. He was devastated,” Burrell told Morgan.

The former royal butler recalled Charles emerging from the room where Diana’s body lay alongside her sisters, saying his eyes were “bloodshot” and describing him as “pale” and “scared.”

“I don’t recognise what Earl Spencer says about Prince Charles,” Burrell added.

But his criticism did not stop there.

Burrell also took aim at Spencer’s portrayal of his relationship with Diana, claiming the Earl was “jealous” of his sister and suggesting the family’s relationship with the Princess became increasingly fractured.

“The last five years of her life are pretty vague in the book because he knows nothing about them,” Burrell said.

He claimed he could “count on one hand” the number of times Spencer visited Kensington Palace for lunch, adding that Spencer had even described himself in a letter to Diana as being “on the periphery” of her life.

“He was not part of her world,” Burrell said.

The former butler went on to claim that Diana’s family members were jealous of the attention and affection she received around the world.

“They were jealous of her success and the love she had from people around the world,” he said.

Burrell also took issue with what he described as the book’s “rather spiteful revengeful point of view,” saying it was unrecognisable to him after spending so much time with Diana during the final years of her life.

His intervention adds another deeply personal perspective to the growing dispute over Spencer’s account of Diana, Charles and the aftermath of her death — with Burrell insisting that his own memories of those days tell a very different story.