{"id":1977818,"date":"2025-08-24T21:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1977818"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:22:06","slug":"former-royal-butler-slams-petulant-prince-harry-in-brutal-putdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/former-royal-butler-slams-petulant-prince-harry-in-brutal-putdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Former royal butler slams &#8216;petulant&#8217; Prince Harry in brutal putdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have endured numerous challenges since departing from Royal duties. The duo&#8217;s public standing has plummeted in recent times, and they remain distanced from the Royal household &#8211; despite Harry&#8217;s latest reconciliation efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Arguably one of the most damaging episodes for the pair occurred in January when Vanity Fair published their devastating expose\u0301 on the Sussexes, entitled &#8216;American Hustle&#8217;. The extensive 8,000-word investigation detailed what life was reportedly like &#8216;Inside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle&#8217;s Big Business Ambitions, 5 Years After Their Royal Exit&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The piece featured concerning allegations about the supposed working conditions under the Sussexes, grievances from their Montecito neighbours, and the explosive claim that someone from Meghan&#8217;s staff had contacted a publisher to &#8220;gauge interest&#8221; in a post-divorce memoir. The pair refuted these allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/checked-m-every-day-week-195231111.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:I checked out M&amp;S every day for a week to see when it had the best reduced items;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">I checked out M&amp;S every day for a week to see when it had the best reduced items<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/plane-passengers-genius-move-block-195147179.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Plane passenger's 'genius move' to block people reclining seats during flight;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Plane passenger&#8217;s &#8216;genius move&#8217; to block people reclining seats during flight<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the article&#8217;s explosive impact, former Royal butler Paul Burrell offered his perspective on the accusations &#8211; and on Harry personally. Speaking on behalf of Prime Casino, Paul &#8211; who served as Princess Diana&#8217;s butler from 1987 until her passing in 1997 &#8211; remarked: &#8220;Vanity Fair is a prestigious title so to print such a damning article about Harry and Meghan is quite a precedent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added: &#8220;I know from firsthand experience how difficult Harry can be. I know how petulant he can be and how spoiled he is, because I&#8217;ve experienced that myself. He&#8217;s always lived in a bubble.&#8221;, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/ex-royal-butler-doesnt-hold-35765063\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Mirror;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Paul also expressed his disappointment over Harry&#8217;s new &#8216;celebrity&#8217; persona. &#8220;Harry and Meghan have a very privileged lifestyle. Harry has always had that and Meghan has long aspired for it. But now they share that lifestyle,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I always circle back to the fact that Harry&#8217;s mother taught him long ago that the price for a privileged lifestyle is public service. Harry seems to have forgotten this lesson now he lives a celebrity Hollywood lifestyle that&#8217;s totally different from his royal one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This comes after another former Royal butler disputed previous claims made by Harry about King Charles and Camilla&#8217;s wedding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Having served as a butler in Highgrove for seven years between 2004 and 2011, Grand Harrold got to know a different side of the Royal family, and is now preparing to release his memoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Speaking to the Telegraph, Harrold questioned Harry&#8217;s claims in Spare that he and his brother William pleaded with their father not to get married. Harry wrote in his book Spare: &#8220;We support you, we said. We endorse Camilla, we said. &#8216;Just please don&#8217;t marry her. Just be together, Pa&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, despite Harry&#8217;s objections in the book, Harrold remembered William and Harry decorating their father&#8217;s car with &#8216;Just Married&#8217; signs with both of them chasing after the car as the newlyweds drove away following their wedding reception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And he claims what he witnessed was completely different from Harry&#8217;s account in his tell-all book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former Royal employee stated: &#8220;The four of them, I promise you, got on so well. And that&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t understand what Harry&#8217;s said, I really don&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Because I saw them. I saw them having dinners together, I saw them having drinks together, I saw them going to parties together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Harrold also remembered how William, his then-girlfriend Kate, and Prince Harry would regularly spend time in each other&#8217;s company whilst he worked at Highgrove, particularly noting the tight relationship between Catherine and Harry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;They involved him,&#8221; Harrold revealed. &#8220;He [Harry] used to go out with Kate. William would be away and Kate and Harry would be off doing stuff together. They&#8217;d go shopping together, they&#8217;d go to pubs together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I think when people say &#8216;oh he was left out&#8217;, he really wasn&#8217;t. But also he was with Chelsy [Davy, Harry&#8217;s former girlfriend]. Chelsy was always around. 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The duo&#8217;s public standing has plummeted in recent times, and they remain distanced from the Royal household &#8211; despite Harry&#8217;s latest reconciliation efforts. 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