{"id":2210831,"date":"2025-12-24T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2210831"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:17:14","slug":"prince-william-and-harrys-former-butler-recalls-crazy-christmas-party-with-royal-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-william-and-harrys-former-butler-recalls-crazy-christmas-party-with-royal-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William and Harry\u2019s former butler recalls \u2018crazy\u2019 Christmas party with royal brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/prince-william\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Prince William;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Prince William<\/a> and Harry&#8217;s former royal butler has shared a fond memory of a \u201ccrazy\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/christmas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Christmas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Christmas<\/a> party he enjoyed with the royal siblings.<\/p>\n<p>Grant Harrold, also known as The Royal Butler, worked for the King and Queen <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/camilla\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Camilla;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Camilla<\/a>, as well as Prince William, Princess Kate and Prince Harry up until 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/the-independent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Independent;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">The Independent<\/a>, Mr Harrold recalled how William and Harry started a \u201cfun\u201d balloon fight during a sit-down Christmas lunch.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;William started blowing up balloons and sending them over to me. You know where you blow it up and let the air out, and I was doing this back to him, thinking &#8216;am I supposed to do this?&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so confused about the situation. He was doing it to his father and then Harry started doing it and they started putting water in to the balloons. It was crazy, but fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince William and Harry&#8217;s former royal butler has shared a fond memory of a \u201ccrazy\u201d Christmas party he enjoyed with the royal siblings. Grant Harrold, also known as The Royal Butler, worked for the King and Queen Camilla, as well as Prince William, Princess Kate and Prince Harry up until 2011. 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