Paul Burrell joined Highgrove House in 1987 and worked on behalf of Diana for ten years, and knew the Princess of Wales very well.

Princess Diana died at the age of 36, when Prince Harry was just 12 years old, but if she were still here, she would not be happy with what’s transpired, says one royal insider.

Charles and Diana had been divorced for one year, but even so, her former butler, Paul Burrell, knew Diana well enough to say she would have expected Harry to be respectful of his father, then and now.

Mr Burrell spoke to The Sun, saying: “There’s no love lost between Diana and Charles, but what was important to Diana is that both boys should have been influenced by both parents.”

He adds: “She would have made Harry apologize to Charles, and Diana would have been the broker of that — she was always the peacemaker.”

Diana was killed in a car crash in 1997 and according to Harry, he never fully recovered from the loss.

He thinks about his mother every day, and now that he has children, her presence is even stronger though Archie, 5, and Lilibet, 2, which he talked about during a TODAY Show interview in 2022.

Both boys were close to their mother, it’s been widely reported (Image: Getty)

According to Mr Burrell, Diana wanted “the four of them to stay together” as a family unit, but when it was not possible, “it broke her heart when that disintegrated”.

Prior to her death, Diana made her sons promise to always look out for each other, which they agreed to at the time, but unfortunately, they were unable to honour their mother’s wishes.

William and Harry put their differences aside to pay tribute to their mother’s legacy with statue (Image: Getty)
 

Mr Burrell joined Highgrove House in 1987 and worked on behalf of the Princess of Wales up until her death in 1997.

Prince William and Prince Harry were “glued to their mother” and her word was final, says Diana’s confidant.

“Now there is nobody to sort them out. I’m afraid it’s a lost cause.”