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Amidst heavy media attention and a royal row between the house of Windsor and redundant Royal butler Paul Burrell, his book 'A Royal Duty' has been released and is set to be a top seller. Burrell calls the book a tribute to Diana but the Royals are calling it treachery. What are your thoughts?

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He befriended Princess Diana in 1980 before her engagement to Prince Charles. At her request, he became butler at Highgrove in 1988, then moved to Kensington Palace with Diana in 1996 when the couple separated.

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Princess Diana's longtime butler and confidant, Paul Burrell, was initially arrested on suspicion of theft in January of 2001, following a pre-dawn raid of his home in northwestern England. The police searched Burrell's residence for more than 12 hours and seized 342 items that they believe were stolen from Diana's apartment in Kensington Palace.

KING: Great pleasure to welcome a return visit to LARRY KING LIVE for Paul Burrell. He was Princess Di's butler and confidant and author of "A Royal Duty." This is now -- you see out in paperback with some new material. What kind of new material?

PAUL BURRELL, AUTHOR, "A ROYAL DUTY": Larry, it's about what happened to me after the book was published. A great deal happened.

KING: All the flack you took?

BURRELL: I took a lot. I took a lot.

KING: Were you surprised at that?

BURRELL: I was, actually. I'm naive, aren't I? And I thought, you know, the press wouldn't go for me in such a way but it did and, of course, the boys made a statement. William and Harry made a statement.

KING: Did that hurt you?

BURRELL: It did. Because, you know, I grew up with those boys. Those boys grew with my children. I love those boys. I would never hurt them. And the book is a loving tribute to their mother.

KING: Do you think they spoke without reading it? BURRELL: Yes, they did. The book wasn't published when they made the statement.

KING: Did you attempt to reach them?

BURRELL: I did.

KING: And?

BURRELL: I've written to them and my letters have been returned. I see, it's sad that the people in their mother's world never saw them. Recently their grandmother died and she said that during those last seven years she never saw her children. And the people in the princess' world have been ostracized away from the boys and they haven't seen the boys. It's very sad.

KING: William is 22 now. Is he going to face the kind of attention that Di did?

BURRELL: Yes, he is. Yes, he is because he is his mother's son. What a fine king he will make.

KING: You think so?

BURRELL: I think so. I don't think we'll ever see a King Charles III and Queen Camilla on the throne of England. I think we will see King William.

KING: What's he going to do now with his life?

BURRELL: William? I think he'll probably join the forces. I think he will follow in his father's footsteps in a military career and I'd like to see them do something in their mother's world and champion the causes that she championed in her lifetime.

KING: Are they going to set standards for who he marries?

BURRELL: Well, I think he'll make his own mind up. I think he'll have a choice. Whereas, you know, the princess didn't have a choice in those days.

KING: And it is different now, right? He can pick who he wishes... (AUDIO GAP).

BURRELL: I think so because -- it was very different for the princess.

KING: Tell me about this one-man show.

BURRELL: I am not singing and dancing. It is an evening of memories, it is my opportunity to say to an audience, judge me on what you see, judge me on my words, not on what other people have written about me.

KING: Have you performed already?

BURRELL: I have. I did last night at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane...

KING: In London?

BURRELL: In London. And I stood there on the stage, I'm looking up at the royal box and thinking, "wow, this lad's come a long way from the north of England."

KING: So, what do you speak and take questions from the audience?

BURRELL: Yes. In the first half, I give a talk about my life, and what's happened and answer some of the questions which have been rattling around Diana and the second half is the audience's chance to ask me questions. And that's what I enjoy, you see, because there is a good exchange.

KING: And the show will be at Town Hall in New York this weekend, right? Thursday, Friday, Saturday?

BURRELL: That's right. Thursday night, I'll be there in Town Hall, I hope at least six people turn up. It doesn't matter.

KING: How many turned up last night?

BURRELL: Oh, several hundred. The theater wasn't full, but there were enough people there to have a good evening. It doesn't matter, Larry, how many people turn up because those people that turn up want to be there to share memories. They want to be there because they adored the princess. And there are millions of people out there that adored her. It is a loving tribute to her, it is an extension of the book, you see.

KING: Why do you think people got angry at you?

BURRELL: I think because I was so close to her. They thought I was going to tell intimate, personal details about her life. I think they thought I was going to go into bedrooms and, of course, I've never done that. I don't think it's my place to do that. Other people will do that in the future, but not me.

KING: The former archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has urged Charles and Camilla to marry. Do you agree with that?

BURRELL: Well, I think he should make an honest woman of her. He has been with her for long enough now and why not? But that brings in then a bigger constitutional question. The, would he become king? And as I said before, I think the queen will reign to be a very old lady. I think she will die queen. And by the time she dies, Prince Charles is going to be 70-something, and too old, and then it'll be the -- the natural succession will be William, you see.

KING: He also, the archbishop described Di as very angry, very fallible, and suggested she was more cunning, using the media than Charles.

BURRELL: I think that is very sad that the head of the Church of England should make comments like that.

KING: What do you make of it?

BURRELL: Well, I think it is very sad because, you know, he was one of the people that knew the princess was going to get a divorce before the princess did. I mean, the princess told me, "the queen, the prince of Wales, the archbishop, and the prime minister all knew I was getting divorced before I did." And that is the way her world worked.

KING: In the new material in the book, you claim that during a first quarrel, Charles told Diana he had always had his father's blessing to turn back to Camilla to comfort if Diana failed to make him happy.

BURRELL: Within five years. Yes, that's true. The princess did tell me that and that is the truth. You see, if you write the truth, Larry, no one can undermine you because it is the truth. That is what they don't like. They don't like the truth being said and especially by a servant. You see, I suffer from the servant classes. Not here in America, though.

KING: You're a commoner.

BURRELL: I am a commoner. I should know my place.

KING: You also said that in a letter to Prince Philip, Diana wrote she felt she'd been offered to the royal family on a sale or return basis like merchandise. She really felt that way?

BURRELL: She did. How sad is that?

KING: She was a prop?

BURRELL: She was. She was there to provide an heir and a spare to the throne and he said, "well, I never loved you anyway." So it's a very sad situation but it is history being written by the people that were there, heard it, saw it, it was part of my life.

KING: Let's take a break and take some calls for Paul Burrell. We'll be right back.

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KING: Before we talk about the unveiling with Paul Burrell, Levittown, New York, hello.

CALLER: Yes, hi. Thanks for taking my call. I wanted to know what Paul thought about when he sees Camilla pretty much act as like the Diana incarnate.

BURRELL: Well, Camilla lives in a wonderful lifestyle now. She lives at Clarence House, the home of former queen mother. It's been refurbished to the tune of 10 million pounds, even has gold leaf on the ceilings. So she lives...

KING: Does it annoy you?

BURRELL: Well, it does, actually. It does annoy me. She has things that the princess never had. And she is living in a lifestyle befitting a queen. She is everything but a queen, and it is annoying. But as I said, I don't think we will ever see Queen Camilla. I don't think the country wants it.

KING: The queen will unveil a memorial to Diana on July 6. You are invited?

BURRELL: I am. I have my tickets...

KING: You're not going?

BURRELL: I'm not going. I have my tickets last week. I am still a member of the government committee to establish a memorial to the princess, and I was invited to be there. But I can't go, Larry, because that would be the first time I had seen the boys since the princess died. And I don't want to see the boys with all the world's media watching. It would detract from the day. That day is about our monarch unveiling the national memorial on behalf of the people to the princess. It's about the princess, it's about her memory. It's not about one individual.

KING: It will also be the first time the royal family and the Spencer family are publicly together since the funeral.

BURRELL: Interesting.

KING: What would that be like?

BURRELL: Quite icy, I would think. I don't think there has been a great mending of the ways there. I think it's going to be difficult for everyone. But they have to put their own feelings aside and think about the princess.

KING: On the death of Di's mother, you wrote an article for "The Daily Mirror," in which you described her as dying a weak, isolated and sad lady. Age had taken its toll, so did the cigarettes she chain- smoked, the vast quantities of wine she drank. But for me, the root of her decline was the nagging, acting guilt from the rift with the princess she could never repair.

BURRELL: That's true.

KING: What caused that rift?

BURRELL: It was the telephone call...

KING: To whom?

BURRELL: Well, Mrs. Shand Kydd rang one night, and she was barely legible on the telephone, and the princess was sobbing in her sitting room. She shouted to me, "come quick, come quick." I thought she'd had an accident. And I sat with her, cross-legged on her floor, and listened at the edge of the phone, and Mrs. Shand Kydd she shouted abuse down the phone at her.

KING: Over?

BURRELL: Over her company of men. Particularly, a Muslim man. And so, the princess slammed the telephone down and said, "I will never speak to my mother again." And she never did. And I think that guilt stayed with Mrs. Shand Kydd, all those years. Sad.

Interestingly, when the princess died, we walked from the island to the little temple, and tellingly she said to me, "Paul, at least I had her for nine months." That is all she had her for, the time she was carrying her.

KING: Really?

BURRELL: What a thing for a mother to say. She only had her for nine months.

KING: Is Fergie back in good graces now?

BURRELL: It looks like she is. But I didn't see -- I didn't see her with the entire family, but she was in a box at the polo.

KING: She speaks, always when she's with us, very kindly about Di.

BURRELL: Yes.

KING: But they were not close.

BURRELL: No, they fell out, too.

KING: What caused that?

BURRELL: Well, the duchess wrote her book and told her story, and the princess didn't agree with everything she said. And so they fell out. Which is very said, because they were like sisters, and they were so close. And the duchess is a lovely lady, you know that.

KING: Oh, yeah.

BURRELL: She is a lovely lady.

KING: What do you make of the inquest?

BURRELL: Well, I have been helping the police with the inquiry.

KING: You have?

BURRELL: I have. I have given them two lengthy meetings. See, I know what the princess felt and thought before she died. I know what I saw in Paris, but I don't know what happened in between.

And of course, that letter, that letter is rather spooky premonition of what happened to the princess, in her own hand. And that has to be investigated. Doesn't it? Because that is how she felt.

KING: When you say you know what she felt, how would you describe it?

BURRELL: Well, she was scared. She was frightened.

KING: Of?

BURRELL: Of being watched, being followed. She wasn't paranoid, she was informed. She knew that people were watching her.

KING: Do you have suspicions about the accident?

BURRELL: I am going to keep an open mind. Because...

KING: You don't -- you're not saying it is as we see it?

BURRELL: No, I have to -- we have to wait and see what the rule (ph) coroner says. We have to see what his finding brings, because...

KING: And you would not be shocked if it were more than we -- it appears?

BURRELL: Well, I think it is going to be very interesting what happens, because there are so many questions that have to be answered. And I can't make a decision on that just now. I will come back and we'll discuss it.

KING: How long will it take? How long will it take?

BURRELL: I think it will take the rest of the year. There are a lot of people to interview, including Prince Charles.

KING: Thank you, Paul.

BURRELL: Thank you.

KING: Always good seeing you.

BURRELL: Nice to see you too.

KING: Paul Burrell, if you are in New York, he will be appearing at the town hall, on Friday, Saturday -- Thursday, Friday and Saturday night with his one-man show. The following week he will be in Maine, at the local swimming pool. And the book, "A Royal Duty" is now out in paperback with some added materials.