Former Diana Butler ‘will never tell all’
Following his dramatic acquittal at the Old Bailey on Friday, the Princess's former butler has been besieged by lucrative offers to tell all about life with Diana and Charles with reports of bids up to stg £1 million.
But solicitor Andrew Shaw, who masterminded his defence on charges of stealing the late Princess's effect, insisted that Mr Burrell would always keep secret the details of her turbulent private life.
"I don't think that he will ever tell all," Mr Shaw told the BBC1 TV programme Breakfast with Frost.
"I think that there will always be the important intimate secrets that he was entrusted with by the Princess that will never be told."
Mr Shaw disclosed that Mr Burrell's original 39-page statement to police - which was not made public had included references to conversations between Diana and Charles which he had wanted to keep private.
Mr Shaw indicated that if Mr Burrell had been called to the witness box to testify, he would not have wanted to harm the Royals, but that evidence could have come out that would have been damaging.
"Paul would never have said anything gratuitously about the Royal Family for the sake of sensationalism. He absolutely respects and reveres the Queen and the Royal Family," he said.
Mr Shaw also disclosed that he had written to the Palace offering to disclose all the information in his possession about the case but was rebuffed.
"I wrote to the Queen many months ago and offered to meet her solicitor and to show him any documentation that I had got in my possession. Everything," he said.
"I felt that something was going wrong with this case really from the start and the injured parties in this case were likely to be Princes William and Harry. I felt that it was unfair, it was wrong it wasn't motivated by the right reasons.
"I got a reply from the Queen's solicitor and he declined to meet."
He said Mr Burrell would now decide whether to pursue legal action against the police and the Crown Prosecution Service.
