Ultimately, he became the trusted personal assistant and confidante to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. He thus published ‘The Way We Were: Remembering Diana’ in 2006 — he’d previously also penned the kind of unrelated ‘Entertaining with Style’ and ‘In the Royal Manner: Butler to Diana’ in 1999.

It was in 1992, following the couple's separation, that he moved to Kensington palace at the personal request of Princess Diana. He paints a faithful and poignant tribute in remembrance of 'the boss' as the person who shared her private world and knew her best. The 64-year-old served as a footman for the Queen before working for Diana for ten years until her death in 1997. In it, Paul gives a truly behind the scene view of what Kensington Palace looked like on the inside both in decor as well as running the day to day life of Princess Diana. As a unique witness to Royal history, he is regularly asked to participate in TV and film documentaries.

It was in 2003 that Paul published his autobiography ‘A Royal Duty,’ which charted not only his private accounts of the Royal households/family but also his connection with the late princess.

Therefore, for his reported unfailing, unwavering 21 years of service as a member of the Royal personal staff, he was decorated with the Royal Victorian Medal by the Queen in November 1997. The Mirror has reached out to Buckingham Palace for a comment regarding the alleged 2017 meeting between the royal brothers and Paul Burrell. This book was a London and New York Times number 1 best seller and sold in excess of 3 million copies worldwide. It's wrong to do it but I'm sure he's doing it because he feels alienated, cast out, forgotten about and impoverished.I had a pretty radical perception against Diana before reading this book, but it really changed my mind. I have to say there were times that the story would be moving along naturally just to be interrupted by the author's assurance that Di was not in love with Dodi. It’s insulting, considering how close we were, and the countless memories we shared, but his resentment goes far and wide, it seems,” Burrell says. Anyways other than that I was moved, engaged, and encouraged that the book did not gloss over the less than perfect bits of the Princess.

The 64-year-old father of two adult sons is hence focusing on his marriage with husband Graham Cooper (2017), his love for travel, and his passion for painting at the moment, all the while expanding his online presence.

In early 2006, he appeared as Richard Gere on ITV's Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes, singing "Razzle Dazzle" from Chicago, the film version of the Broadway musical. Books produced by Burrell state that Diana was very fond of him, and that she would describe him as her "rock" for his support during trying times, but Diana's mother, Frances Shand Kydd, detested him and believed that he was "just another hanger-on grasping at Diana's celebrity".