Burrell's exalted sense of duty, as keeper of the Diana flame, might even provide the excuse for the release of more prince-relatedtittle-tattle from his decades of invisibility.

In general, it struck me that Diana's relationship with Burrell was more like any woman's whose best friend is a gay man (the question of his sexuality irrelevant to me; completely unaware of that at the time of reading this book) and not entirely suggestive of the class distinctions. One chose a path of affection, acceptance, humility and philanthropy — in essence giving away to others what she so longed for herself. Loved this book from the first page and it was such an insight into life working for the Royal family and the life of Diana Princess of Wales. He made himself her keeper, and when she died, he could not bare not having someone need him in the way Diana did. This book was a London and New York Times number 1 best seller and sold in excess of 3 million copies worldwide.

So there we have Princess Diana at Kensington Palace, Di doing the land mine thing, the HIV thing and other humanitarian work. At once, it confirmed both the person I thought the princess was and the person I thought Charles was during this time. It gave a great insight into both the Queen and Diana as people, and also the much maligned Prince Charles.

While I do see their grief, it does not excuse the fact that their true colors were shown in their persecution of the man that really knew Diana, the man that they hated because of that very fact.The author, who was always in the right place at the right time for a promotion, claims to have had an unprecedented relationship with the late princess. That only served to solidify her legacy and legend as the People’s Princess with the help of a few brave, honest people like Mr.