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 鈥渢here were bound to be鈥 errors in it. Quizzed in court about his notorious claim that the Queen had warned him that there were 鈥渄ark forces鈥 at work in Britain today, he replied: 鈥淒oes it say 鈥榙ark forces鈥? Well, that鈥檚 an error. The Queen never mentioned dark forces.'
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