A Royal Duty: The poignant and remarkable untold story of the Princess of Wales

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If you like to read about the Royals, this book is written in a simplistic, tell all style which for me was a pleasure to read.

Then we have Paul marrying a housemaid and leaving Buckingham Palace to go down to Highgrove with the newly married Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Paul kind of likes Prince Philip because PP liked Diana and Paul is utterly and completely obsessed with Diana, or at least she's his meal ticket for life and that's a good kind of obsession.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. During that time, I have watched and listened patiently as many individuals have claimed to know the truth about the Princess of Wales. At the same time, the publication of Rebecca Tyrrel's new portrait of Camilla depicts her as a woman who, for all her superficial deficiencies, is stolid enough to make a very serviceable royal wife.

Although the book's title and cover makes it seem like the focus will be primarily on the Princess of Wales through the author's eyes, readers end up being treated to three different biographical views in one - the autobiography of the author Paul Burrell and biographies of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana (and her family) during his time as footman and butler, respectively. However it does get very annoying when he makes a big deal out of the fact that the late Princess allegedly disclosed some huge secret to him and then childishly refuses to tell the reader (or the inquest into the Princess' death for that matter) what that secret is. Now, thanks to Tyrrel's exhaustive exploration of the what-does-he-see-in-her question, we can be fairly sure that we will never know the answer.it gives a first hand rendition of the crumbling marriage and eventual divorce of the prince and princess of wales. I never thought that I would need to defend the Princess against untruths from many different quarters. Diana's death - shocking as it was for the general public - must have been difficult for those who knew her personally. It is the first book about anyone in this family I have read that seems neither sanctioned nor scathing. and i think that is a believeable motive, despite the vast sums of money that he has made from the book.