Paul Burrell, the former butler of Britain's late Princess Diana, has launched a scathing attack on the royal family. The 48-year-old ex-servant's rant included a damning interpretation of Prince Harry's impending posting to war-torn Iraq, which he branded a publicity stunt.

Burrell told an undercover investigator for Britain's News of the World newspaper posing as a businessman: "Harry is a wild card - a liability. It's going to cost the taxpayers a lot to keep him safe in Iraq. It's just a PR exercise - because when he comes home he'll be a hero.

"He's off to war, to fight for queen and country, he's in the armed forces and has to go. But he won't be on the front line. They'll take great care of him. The queen will say, 'Fine, let him go but keep him somewhere safe.' Actually they'll have to be very, very careful. He'll be more difficult to guard there than he is at home."

The former "I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here" contestant also compared Prince Charles' new wife Camilla to a horse.

He said of Charles: "Well he likes horses! I'm saying she runs in the 3.30 at Kempton! Camilla's not attractive, but then he was never looking for the physical presence of a beautiful woman. He wanted someone that would look after him.

"Would you cross over the road to see Camilla? She's not one of the most attractive of women. And I'm being kind!"

Burrell also accused Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, of "pimping" out her young daughters - Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.

He said of the red-headed duchess: "This is a strange woman. She has a reputation of pimping her daughters into social situations which isn't very helpful. They're princesses, and they're royal - and she is not.

"Sarah was a farmer's daughter, brought into the royal family, like a little girl brought into a sweet shop and told she could have anything she wanted. And she did. She had everything, the lot. Abused everything and gorged herself. I saw it. She's a lady that has her finger on the self-destruct button and she just keeps pressing it. She can't help it."

The aspiring businessman and writer of several 'tell-all' books about Diana also claimed the princess' lover Dodi Al Fayed - who was killed with the princess in a Paris car crash in 1997 - was a cocaine addict.

He said: "When Diana and Dodi were on the Al Fayed yacht she called me and said: 'Dodi keeps going into the bathroom and locks the door. What's he doing in there?' I told her, 'You know what he's doing.' She was naive. She didn't do drugs."

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READER COMMENTS
May 15, 2007 - 10:19AM
If Diana was still alive she would never let him go.
May 15, 2007 - 12:58PM
That's true. Diana would realize he's a target 'cause he's royal. She wouldn't let him go.
May 16, 2007 - 06:20PM
I kind of feel sorry for him. We all that money and access to anything in the world by just a snap of his fingers. He looks like he is so lost no direction to go. No matter whom he meets and loves there is something that is gone. It probably was the day Diana died a part died with him. He looks like he could be a great Prince even a King that people could relate to. Ah well maybe one day he will come to his own meet the right person that will show him real love. I wish that he still had Diana there so she could tell him how much she loves him and never let him go and fight. After all is said and done was all this worth it, to send a young boy to fight. For what so other people can fill in there persona agenda. Why do we listen to others so much when we should always listen to our hearts first? Do you acutely want to lose a Prince so we can prove a point? Maybe his done mistakes in the pass but so what we all have, there is just one different not all of our mistakes are publish in the paper or TV. God created us to make mistakes without them we would not learn. Let’s just say that I wish he would not go from one Mother heart to another.
May 28, 2007 - 07:14PM
Well Paul Burrell, Sarah grew up in an aristrocacy. As just a butler, why do seem like you're better than she is? hmm? Mr. Butler, you need to get a life and quit feeding off the royal family, weren't you fired or something?
October 26, 2007 - 01:11AM - John Wraith
Where is the dignity in this man?How sad that a servant feels he has to make such statements about his former employers!He seems to be unaware of what he has become-an "aspiring businessman"-what on earth does that mean?"What profiteth a man if he gains the whole earth but loses his soul".Sounds familiar!
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