October 20, 2022 08:45
No one knew this except the faithful servant.
The night before Lady Dee’s funeral, her servant and close friend, the butler Paul Burrell, came to say goodbye to the princess. In Kensington Palace, where the coffin with the Princess of Wales was displayed, at that moment there were no members of the royal family or Diana’s relatives – they simply did not appear to pay tribute to the memory of the “People’s Princess”.
Therefore, it was Paul, as he told the journalist Lisa Oldfield, who dressed Diana in a funeral dress, and then pinned to him the so-called Royal Family Order, granted to the Princess of Wales by Her Majesty Elizabeth II immediately following her marriage to Charles. This award was supposed to symbolize the status of Lady Dee and her belonging to the House of Windsor.
However, following her divorce from Charles, Diana, of course, lost her right to the order, because she was no longer part of the royal family, although she retained the title of Princess of Wales. So the act of the faithful butler remained a mystery for more than twenty years, since he had no right to do what he did.
