00:01Prince Charles wasn't always kind to the princess.
00:04In fact, sometimes he was quite cruel.
00:07I remember one occasion she came downstairs
00:09wearing a beautiful black and white Catherine Walker gown.
00:13And she said, Charles, I've had it made specially. Do you like it?
00:16You look like you belong to the mafia, he said,
00:20which cut her down to her knees.
00:24Then on one occasion she came down in a tartan dress
00:27and said, do you like this one?
00:29Well, you look like a British Caledonian stewardess.
00:33It was always undermining just before an engagement began
00:38so that she would lose her confidence.
00:40So it was mental cruelty in a way.
00:42I never saw any physical violence.
00:45I saw tables being upset.
00:47I saw crockery being thrown across the room,
00:50but I never saw any physical violence.
00:59Now the royal marriage was falling apart.
01:02And I was Diana's man.
01:05Placed strategically at Highgrove.
01:08Placed there to keep the house in order,
01:11but also to be there for Diana.
01:14To be there as a rock, she later called me.
01:18It was difficult for me to tread the path between Prince Charles
01:23and Princess Diana.
01:32Now Diana arrived every weekend with the boys on Friday afternoon
01:37and left every Sunday.
01:39But someone else occupied that space in between.
01:42And I learned to serve two royal mistresses.
01:47One, Princess of Wales.
01:50And the other, Mrs. Parker Bowles.
02:01It was impossible to do this balancing act
02:04between the prince and the princess.
02:06The prince during the week and the princess at the weekend.
02:09And then have someone else pop in to this ménage a trois.
02:14It was incredibly difficult.
02:17Because the princess would ring me up from London and say,
02:20Where's Prince Charles tonight, Paul?
02:22Where's the Prince of Wales?
02:24He's out for dinner, Your Royal Highness.
02:26Where is he?
02:27I've no idea.
02:29Of course you know where he is.
02:30You always know where he is.
02:31Who's he got for dinner tomorrow night?
02:33I hear he's got a dinner party.
02:34Who's coming?
02:35Don't ask me.
02:36Please ask him.
02:39One day I told the princess the prince was out.
02:44The prince found out.
02:46I'd been talking to the princess, thinking I'd been gossiping to her.
02:50He rang his bell.
02:52I went into the library.
02:54Stood there.
02:55Your Royal Highness.
02:56I hear you've had a conversation with my wife.
03:01Why are you talking about me being out last night?
03:05I saw your Royal Highness, but you were.
03:07Why?
03:07Can't you lie?
03:09You're asking me to lie about you not being in residence.
03:13Yes.
03:13Why didn't you do what you're bloody told?
03:16And he picked up a book and started to stamp on the spot like a petulant child.
03:21And he hurled this book at me across the room.
03:24I dodged and missed it.
03:25And I thought, you know, I think my time's up.
03:28I think it's time I got out.
03:31Diana rescued me.
03:33She took me back with her.
03:35She took me back with her.
03:35Here we go.
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