Burrell: The Rock in a hard place
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| 15:43 UK time, Sunday, 20 January 2008
That's the headline in today's and there are others as newspaper columnists have been having a field day over the testimony of former Royal butler Paul Burrell at the inquest of Princess Diana who called him her Rock.
writes Eilis O'Hanlon for the , while headline writers suggest, .
It fair to say that Paul Burrell, well known in Wrexham where he has strong ties, felt like he was on trial during the hearing - but he didn't help himself.
is the headline under which columnist Susannah Herbert says:
'... Burrell had failed to line up his testimony with A Royal Duty, his bestselling memoir. When told of his contradictions, he blithely disavowed the book, saying βthere were bound to beβ errors in it. Quizzed in court about his notorious claim that the Queen had warned him that there were βdark forcesβ at work in Britain today, he replied: βDoes it say βdark forcesβ? Well, thatβs an error. The Queen never mentioned dark forces.'
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