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“Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned to William in her distress. She (Princess Diana) told me how he had sat with her one night when she was upset over the loss of HRH, put his arms around her and said: Don't worry, Mummy. I will give it back to you one day when I am king.”
― Paul Burrell, A Royal Duty

“Scotland”
― Paul Burrell, A Royal Duty: The Landmark Bestseller That First Lifted the Curtain on the Princess of Wales’s Life

“Highgrove.”
― Paul Burrell, A Royal Duty: The Landmark Bestseller That First Lifted the Curtain on the Princess of Wales’s Life

“paid for with a coin-operated meter. When the officials came round, the money was tipped out on to the kitchen table, counted and piled into pound stacks. Mum watched the counting process like a hawk, hoping there was more money than the bill required – meters were viewed as bonus moneyboxes. Every Friday night, Dad brought home his wages, and Mum dived in first. She put some aside in a teapot for the rent, then Dad would go to the fish-and-chip shop and queue for an hour: fish and chips was every family’s end-of-week treat. We often ran out of cash in our household so Mum had a slate at the corner shop and an account at the Co-op, which rewarded her with”
― Paul Burrell, A Royal Duty: The Landmark Bestseller That First Lifted the Curtain on the Princess of Wales’s Life

“arriving from Scotland, she had cried herself”
― Paul Burrell, A Royal Duty: The Landmark Bestseller That First Lifted the Curtain on the Princess of Wales’s Life

“Resentment is trying to change something that is just what it is. When we can’t change it, we resent it.”
― Paul Burrell, A Royal Duty: The Landmark Bestseller That First Lifted the Curtain on the Princess of Wales’s Life