She also cheated on her husband in a desperate search for happiness first with one of her bodyguards, a married man called called Barry Mannakee in 1985, shortly after the birth of Prince Harry. Anxious officials soon had him transferred for fear of scandal, and the following year she turned to Captain James Hewitt. Although he told his father he was scared Diana would commit suicide if he broke off with her, after five years Hewitt ratted on her, and made it clear that it was she who had seduced him Dan Walker is seen for the first time after detailing his horror cancer scare as he arrives at Strictly studios to watch BBC show Bruce Willis holds on tightly to his daughter Scout's hand as he spends Thanksgiving with his family amid his dementia battle Leaving your beauty routine out in the cold? Three beauty experts on the skin, hair and nail tips they're giving their celebrity clients this winter Another royal book banned in Britain is The Housekeeper's Diary by Wendy Berry,housekeeper to Prince Charles and Princess Diana from 1985 to 1992.

This book traces the story of English - and, despite the title, in one case Welsh - country houses from 1820 right through to the 1970s. Author Tessa Boase makes the journey by focusing on the lives of five very different housekeepers, with an appendix looking at the work of a present-day housekeeper in a stately home. I found it a fascinating read, and enjoyed listening to the audiobook read by the author. She has a warm, expressive voice, and is good at doing different voices for the different characters. I did just notice one or two strange (to a British listener) pronunciations, possibly requested by Audible for the sake of listeners worldwide. As well as the family members, a small number of royal servants and staff members have also penned deeply revealing memoirs, in spite of the stringent confidentiality agreements that have come about in recent decades. I expected Camilla to be a presence in this book, but she barely appears. Aside from a couple of lunch parties, and afternoon visits to Charles when he badly broke his arm, she wasn't at Highgrove at this time. Berry notes the evenings when Charles seems to be slipping away to see her, but there weren't as many of those as expected. Diana's affair with James Hewitt took place at Highgrove, but he was in the military so was often away. Diana's concern for him and his safety was clear to the staff. I'm A Celeb's Tony Bellew and Nigel Farage leave viewers 'heaving' as they are forced to drink blended penises during gruesome trial: 'This is vile!'

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Berry witnessed the most turbulent years of the Wales' marriage, leading to their formal separation in 1992, after which she was let go from her position in the great staff reshuffle that occurred as Charles and Diana split their households between Highgrove House (where Berry was based) and Kensington Palace. SARAH VINE: Royal biographer Omid Scobie may be a leech... but the treachery of Harry was so much worse Myleene Klass shares a blended family tribute to herfiancé as she thanks him for 'being the embarrassing dad who cheers the loudest for my children' Since this is the second time in a month (following the Martin Bashir revelations) that royal commentators have felt compelled to move more or less en bloc against an outsider whose methods they deplore, the creation of some sort of organised guild or union is surely overdue. Royal specialists have for years taken sides, but this was always, you gathered, undertaken regretfully, professionally, out of virtually Baghottian reverence for the institution at risk. No passionate Diana or Charles advocate – or adversary – ever intended by their partiality to expose the entire royal family, as The Crown relentlessly does, as cruel, spoilt and silly, essentially a collection of pitiful victims.

The Bells were an evil bunch relegating Grace and her husband (they called him 'the Dolt') and child to an attic room, one of them saying that she was just '‘part of the furniture’". Virginia said that she hated having servants around and longed for a house with a floor above and a floor below separating her from the servants. (See Alison Light's excellent Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: . I felt sincerely sorry for Grace, having to serve these selfish people who pretended that they promoted equality and feminism whilst not wanting to spend money on even installing flush toilets because there were maids to empty the chamber pots. Christina Aguilera gets rained out in Melbourne as the American superstar belts out her mega hits at Always Live festival The trial collapsed after the courts were sensationally informed that the butler had told Queen Elizabeth he was storing the items for safekeeping.In 1960, Payne published the first extracts from his memoir titled My Life With Princess Margaret in a French newspaper, which brought swift legal action from the royal family, seeing the Queen Mother's lawyers file for an injunction, and barring the former servant from profiting off of any publication about royal life. Huw Edwards 'to leave BBC after being given inquiry findings' into his alleged behaviour following sex pic scandal Strictly's Bobby Brazier reveals the two words he would say to his late mother Jade Goody as he dedicates emotional dance to her Tessa Boase writes about 6 housekeepers working from the 1830s right up until the present and it is interesting to compare the experiences of these characters and the changing attitudes caused by the 2 World Wars towards working 'in service'.

It was September 1989, and Princess Diana was staying at her ancestral home of Althorp in Northamptonshire, England, when her fury for her stepmother boiled over. The royal, then 28, berated Countess Raine Spencer, who had married her father, Johnnie, 13 years earlier. Then she pushed her so hard, she fell down the stairs.

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Despite all of these problems, however, the Highgrove staff maintained an affectionate respect for both the Prince and the Princess. Contrary to news reports portraying Charles as an uncaring father, the staff viewed him as having loving relationship with his two sons, and there were good times and laughter with Diana. For all his posturing as a caring, sharing tree-hugger, the Prince of Wales sometimes betrays some astonishingly feudal instincts. Is it seemly or dignified, in AD2000, for one of the richest men in the land to demand that a servant be jailed for lese-majesty? Crawfie was loved by both princesses and also by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother). As a retirement present, the governess was given the use of Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace, later noted for being the home of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, for her lifetime. As the New York Times reported in 1944, when Hague was trying to prevent reform of the state constitution: "Appealing to special interests whenever a seed of scepticism could be planted, the Mayor's forces succeeded in creating confusion . . . To his critics, the Hague tactic was simple yet vexingly difficult to contain. Its design, they charged, was to frighten one group and then another with sensational falsehoods - falsehoods that Hitler and Goebbels would admire because they were so difficult to nail down."