Ex-Butler: Diana's Mom Called Her 'Whore' for Dating Muslim Men

[RedGlitter]

Anybody for some fish wrappers?

Diana still can't get any rest.





Monday , January 14, 2008





LONDON —

Princess Diana's former butler testified Monday that the princess' mother had called her a "whore" and criticized her for her associations with Muslim men. At a coroner's inquest into Diana's death, Paul Burrell testified that Diana's mother, the late Frances Shand-Kydd, had destroyed much of Diana's private papers. Shand-Kydd had said she destroyed about 100 documents, but Burrell said he carried away half a dozen trash bags filled with shredded paper.

He said he didn't dare challenge the mother. "Mrs. Shand-Kydd was quite formidable ... and she did what she thought best."

Burrell said Diana had invited him to listen to a telephone conversation with her mother, who upbraided her daughter in June 1997 for romances with Muslims. That was before her romance with Fayed.

Burrell said he heard the mother say that Diana was "a whore and that she was (expletive deleted) around with Muslim men."

"She said some very nasty things," Burrell said.

Burrell also said there might be a secret about the late princess in a journal he kept but was unwilling to disclose. He later said there was no journal, he never kept one.

He was also reluctant to say which member of the royal family told Diana she should beware of surveillance, but he did write the name and passed the note to the coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker. Baker looked at it, and said it had no relevance to the proceeding.

In an increasingly surreal day, Baker said the surveillance warning did not come from Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip or Sarah, Duchess of York. Burrell's note was given to a court official for safekeeping, and not disclosed.

The upshot was that Burrell was urged to go to his home in Cheshire in northwestern England to retrieve the documents he does have, and lawyers were poised to seek any copies held by Burrell's ghostwriter or his publishers.

Whatever the secret was, Burrell said it had nothing to do with Dodi Fayed, whose death with Diana in a Paris car crash on Aug. 31, 1997, is also a subject of the inquest.

In his book "A Royal Duty," published in 2003, Burrell quoted a note that Diana wrote to him not long before she died. "This coming weekend is an important one," she wrote, and she was touched that he shared her excitement.

"What a secret!" the note said.

What was it? attorney Michael Mansfield asked Burrell.

He wouldn't say. Pressed by Mansfield, Burrell said he knew, but that it "had nothing to do with Dodi Al Fayed."

Later he said, "I cannot remember what that particular secret was."

Burrell said he had seen Prince Philip's letters to Diana, describing them as sharp but not threatening.

Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, has alleged that Philip directed a murder conspiracy aimed at his son and the princess.

Mansfield, who represents Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, asked Burrell how he was able to quote from Philip's letters to Diana if he didn't have copies.

"As the princess had taught me and as the queen had taught me to keep a diary and to keep a journal, I kept a note of those events because it's part of history and I think that history should be written by those who witnessed, not those who weren't there," Burrell said.

He resisted Baker's request that he produce the documents.

"My journal and diary, they are intimate and very private and very personal to me and I personally do not think that there is any connection to the circumstances surrounding the princess' death involved in those diaries."

After lunch, Burrell said journal "was not a word I would use," and that he didn't keep one.

"That does seem rather a different picture from the picture you painted earlier," Baker said.

"I am sorry if I misled you, sir, that's my fault. I apologize," Burrell said.

Burrell said notes of his thoughts and feelings while working with Diana were handed over to ghostwriter Steve Dennis, and then destroyed.

He said he did have notes that Diana sent to him, and also a copy of his sensational note of a conversation with the queen, in which she warned him to be careful. "There are powers at work in this country of which we have no knowledge."

Burrell agreed to retrieve those documents from his home, but wanted to get legal advice before agreeing to disclose them to the inquest.

"Mr. Burrell, will you please set off hotfoot for Cheshire?" Baker said as Monday's hearing closed. Burrell is expected to be back on the stand Tuesday.

He said the affair with Khan lasted at least 18 months, but he described the romance with Fayed as a "30-day relationship."

"The princess had just finished a long-term relationship with someone she cared deeply about," Burrell said. "I know that, because I was there. I saw it."

Burrell described Diana as being "on the rebound from that relationship when she met someone who was very kind and attentive and generous."

[abbey]

Diana's Mom Called Her 'Whore' for Dating Muslim Men

Allegedly

[theia]

How many millions is this inquest costing the British taxpayer? Did I hear between 5 and 10, or was that just a rumour?

[Chookie]

theia;758097 wrote: How many millions is this inquest costing the British taxpayer?


Does it matter? SAhe was a waste of oxygen when she was alive and no matter what they say, do or think, she is still dead.

[Bryn Mawr]

Chookie;758106 wrote: Does it matter? SAhe was a waste of oxygen when she was alive and no matter what they say, do or think, she is still dead.


Uncalled for Sir

[Specfiction]

Uncalled for Sir


I couldn't agree more--what a mess our world is. Let's face it, we're just mean monkeys.

[buttercup]

RedGlitter;758078 wrote:

Princess Diana's former butler testified Monday that the princess' mother had called her a "whore" and criticized her for her associations with Muslim men. "




So have many others in this country

theia;758097 wrote: How many millions is this inquest costing the British taxpayer? Did I hear between 5 and 10, or was that just a rumour?


Its disgusting

Chookie;758106 wrote: Does it matter? SAhe was a waste of oxygen when she was alive and no matter what they say, do or think, she is still dead.


Thats a bit harsh chookie but i know what you mean. We have to remember a pretty picture of Diana was painted for the americans hence they think of her how they do.

[RedGlitter]

buttercup;758153 wrote:



Thats a bit harsh chookie but i know what you mean. We have to remember a pretty picture of Diana was painted for the americans hence they think of her how they do.


I think this thread just blossomed into something else.

Seriously, what's inaccurate about the picture shown to Americans? Yes, many of us if not most, think she was a very compassionate, warm person. What do we not know??

[theia]

RedGlitter;758214 wrote: I think this thread just blossomed into something else.

Seriously, what's inaccurate about the picture shown to Americans? Yes, many of us if not most, think she was a very compassionate, warm person. What do we not know??


I too think she was a warm, compassionate person. I also think that she had less positive sides to her character and was struggling with the same issues with which every human being struggles. The main difference for Diana was that she was doing this in the glare of the media spotlight, which, as we know, can and does manipulate the way a person is presented.

And, going back to the cost of the inquest, I stupidly thought initially that it was being paid for privately. I'm unhappy that the taxpayer is footing the bill. The families involved are incredibly wealthy, so why are we paying the costs?

[Carolly]

theia;758226 wrote: I too think she was a warm, compassionate person. I also think that she had less positive sides to her character and was struggling with the same issues with which every human being struggles. The main difference for Diana was that she was doing this in the glare of the media spotlight, which, as we know, can and does manipulate the way a person is presented.

And, going back to the cost of the inquest, I stupidly thought initially that it was being paid for privately. I'm unhappy that the taxpayer is footing the bill. The families involved are incredibly wealthy, so why are we paying the costs?
Im so bloody angry over a couple of comments made on this thread but because Im not here to have a row I will let it go.Theia every single word you say here I have to agree with though ..............very well said.

[Imladris]

Paul Burrell says so - so it must be true!!!!!!





I for one think he is an opportunistic, lying, publicity desperate scumbag. Let's wait for the next round of his memoires or the next trinket from 'the Royal Butler'.





She wasn't infallible, she wasn't perfect but she raised the profile for a lot of charities and lets's not forget that. She's dead, she should be allowed to rest in peace now out of respect for her sons who were just children when she died and will just want to remember her in a good way.