Diana's former butler Paul Burrell slams Earl Spencer's 'revengeful' book as full of 'jealousy'

Diana's former butler Paul Burrell slams Earl Spencer's 'revengeful' book as full of 'jealousy' Princess Diana's butler Paul Burrell has hit back at claims made about the King in Earl Spencer's book as he says he 'does not recognise' what her brother has written Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, has broken his silence about Earl Spencer's book with a brutal message while appearing on Piers Morgan's show. Burrell has contended Spencer's assertions that the King was 'giddy with excitement' after Princess Diana's death and slammed him as 'jealous'. Diana's ex-butler said in the exclusive interview that he thinks the memoir is "more about Earl Spencer than it is about his sister Diana." Burrell added that the "rather spiteful revengeful point of view that he's penned" does not resemble what he witnessed, having spent considerable time with the Princess prior to her death in 1997. The former member of staff said he was in Paris when the King arrived after Diana's death and Spencer's depiction of him being 'giddy with excitement' couldn't be further from reality. He said: "He speaks about the King being giddy with excitement when Diana died. Well Piers, I was in Paris, I saw the king. "He was a broken man. He was devastated". Burrell added that when Charles exited the room in which Diana was with her sisters, he had clearly been crying, "his eyes were bloodshot". "He was pale and he was scared," he said. Burrell continued: "I don't recognise what Earl Spencer says about Prince Charles." He also pointed out the "fractured" bond between the silblings, and Diana's relationship with her entire family. He said: "The last five years of her life are pretty vague in the book because he knows nothing about them. The butler said that he could "count on one hand" the number of times Spencer had come to Kensington Palace for lunch, even acknowledging in a letter to Diana that he was "on the periphery" of her life. Burrell stated: "He was not part of her world. ". "They [Diana's family] were jealous of her success and the love she had from people around the world. ".