ROYAL butler Paul Burrell was sensationally cleared of stealing hundreds of Princess Diana’s belongings yesterday after a dramatic intervention by the Queen.

Royal butler Paul Burrell had not asked permission from the Bishop of London - an executor of the Princess of Wales’s will – to remove property from Kensington Palace after her death, an Old Bailey court heard today.

Royal butler Paul Burrell was not as close to Diana, Princess of Wales, as he claims, the Old Bailey heard today.