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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Exclusive: Princess Diana's Former Butler Reveals Why She Was "Misinterpreted and Misunderstood" in the Final Years of Her Life

Princess Diana wearing a blue suit resting her chin on her hand.

Princess Diana would have turned 65 on July 1, and ahead of the late royal’s birthday, her former butler, Paul Burrell, is reflecting on the final years of Diana’s life. The princess shifted her style and embraced her single life following her split from Prince Charles, but Burell says that Diana’s intentions were “misrepresented” in the ‘90s.

Burrell, speaking via the Motivational Speakers Agency, says that Princess Diana’s ambition was never to make headlines, but to use her platform to help the most vulnerable people in the world. He shares, “I find the princess in these times being misrepresented, misinterpreted and misunderstood because all she wanted to be was a humanitarian. She wanted to travel the world and shine her light on people who had been forgotten. That's all she wanted to do.”

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