Intimate details of the life of the late Princess Diana are being revealed by her butler who was in her employment for 10 years - and she continues to be his meal ticket long after her death.
In the new tell-all "The Way We Were: Remembering Diana", Paul Burnell claims the Princess of Wales found her true love in heart surgeon, Dr. Hasnat Khan, and not in the Egyptian playboy Dodi Al Fayed.
Furthermore, Burnell dismisses claims that Diana was engaged to Fayed when she died in a car crash in 1997, saying that their month-long relationship was her way to get back at Khan at the time. Fayed may have been preparing to propose to Diana the night they died together in Paris, but Burnell says that Diana had asked him to find out if it was possible if she could somehow get secretly married to Khan.
Among the other controversial things he the book, he writes
* He says Diana asked him to help her by burying the stillborn child of a friend, Rosa Monckton, on the grounds of Kensington Palace.
* Diana wanted to be the new Jackie Onassis and possibly marry an American billionaire who would run for President so she could be First Lady and redecorate the White House.
* The butler criticizes Princes William and Harry, who he said have not done enough to defend their mother's memory in the nine years since her death.
"I have thought long and hard about whether to tell this story," Burrell writes in the book, which is to be published by Harper Collins on Sept. 12. "But what I witnessed was the ultimate act of compassion and friendship, which I think reflects greatly on the boss and sums up her humanity. Acts of kindness don't get much bigger than this."
In the new tell-all "The Way We Were: Remembering Diana", Paul Burnell claims the Princess of Wales found her true love in heart surgeon, Dr. Hasnat Khan, and not in the Egyptian playboy Dodi Al Fayed.
Furthermore, Burnell dismisses claims that Diana was engaged to Fayed when she died in a car crash in 1997, saying that their month-long relationship was her way to get back at Khan at the time. Fayed may have been preparing to propose to Diana the night they died together in Paris, but Burnell says that Diana had asked him to find out if it was possible if she could somehow get secretly married to Khan.
Among the other controversial things he the book, he writes
* He says Diana asked him to help her by burying the stillborn child of a friend, Rosa Monckton, on the grounds of Kensington Palace.
* Diana wanted to be the new Jackie Onassis and possibly marry an American billionaire who would run for President so she could be First Lady and redecorate the White House.
* The butler criticizes Princes William and Harry, who he said have not done enough to defend their mother's memory in the nine years since her death.
"I have thought long and hard about whether to tell this story," Burrell writes in the book, which is to be published by Harper Collins on Sept. 12. "But what I witnessed was the ultimate act of compassion and friendship, which I think reflects greatly on the boss and sums up her humanity. Acts of kindness don't get much bigger than this."
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