Paul Burrell's revelations about Diana

In January 2004, a UK tabloid, the Daily Mirror, identified Prince Charles as the "senior royal" who Princess Diana believed wanted to kill her.

Diana had believed ten months before she died that her life was being threatened and feared a car "accident" would be rigged, according to a note apparently written to Burrell. She predicted that her car brakes would be tampered with to cause her serious injury and pave the way for Prince Charles to marry Camilla Parker Bowles.

Paul Burrell, a former butler of Princess Diana, had previously made the claim but did not disclose the name of the "senior royal". In 2003, Burrell had been paid £800,000 by selling various newspaper rights to The Mirror which included the incriminating note in Diana's own handwriting. Previously. The Mirror and Burrell's book had blocked out the name of the "senior royal".

In October 2003 Paul Burrell made a series of other revelations both in the Mirror and in a book:

The Duke of Edinburgh criticised his son's affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. "I cannot imagine anyone in their right mind leaving you for Camilla," he reportedly wrote to Diana in 1992.

The Duke of Edinburgh asked whether the princess drove her husband away. "Can you honestly look into your heart and say that Charles's relationship with Camilla had nothing to do with your behaviour towards him in your marriage?"

In a letter to Diana in 1996, Earl Spencer, her brother, dismissed the bulimia from which she was suffering as "mental problems", and refused her permission to move to the Althorp estate.

Lord Spencer reportedly demanded the return of the family tiara that Diana had worn at her wedding.

On the day the princess's divorce was finalised, in August 1996, she said in a note to Burrell that she had "never wanted a divorce".

When asked by Diana if the divorce would mean that the Prince of Wales could marry Mrs Parker Bowles, the Queen allegedly said: "I think that very unlikely."

Diana had nine secret "gentlemen friends", including a Hollywood actor, a sportsman, a leading musician a politician, a novelist, a lawyer, an entrepreneur and a billionaire businessman. "She controlled the position of her gentleman friends. We called it the 'trap' system as if they were competitors on a racetrack," Burrell claimed. "The occupant of trap one never changed."
She apparently had no intention of marrying Dodi Fayed and worried about his problems with drink, drugs and prostitutes.

In a US TV interview Burrell claimed Diana was in love with Hasnat Khan, a Pakistani heart surgeon.