'I worked for the Queen for over 10 years - there was one thing you could never do'

Former Royal butler Paul Burrell says there is one thing that staff were told not to do when working with Queen Elizabeth II. Burrell, 67, began working as a footman at Buckingham Palace when he was just 18 years old.

A year later he started working as one of the personal footmen - who do tasks such as waiting tables or attending coaches - for the Queen. He later went to work with the-then Prince Charles and Princess Diana at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire.

He remained working as a butler for the princess until she died in 1997. He once claimed she described him as the “only man she ever trusted”.

Now Paul, who spent a decade with the Queen, says there was one thing he was told “never” to do while serving her. He made the revelation in his new book, The Royal Insider: My Life with