Royal insider Paul Burrell has lifted the lid on His Majesty the King 's rigid routine, saying the 76-year-old monarch has always insisted on his servants conforming to very strict standards.

Burrell, who started working for the royals as a footman at Buckingham Palace when he was just 18, moved to Highgrove House in Gloucestershire to become part of the then Prince of Wales's household in 1987.

For a decade, he was a servant and close confidante of Princess Diana – once claiming that he was "the only man she ever trusted." His relationship with her husband was always a little more distant, though, he says.

In his new book, The Royal Insider: My Life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana, he explains that while he's only nine years younger than the King, he always felt as if

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