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Daniel Bird

I'm A Celeb's Paul Burrell reveals Queen's private bathtime routine to stunned campmates

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! star Paul Burrell has revealed the lengths he went to in order to run a bath for the late Queen Elizabeth.

The former footman to the late Monarch served Her Majesty for ten years and has now disclosed what happened at bathtime, leaving Janice Dickinson blown away.

During a conversation in the South African camp, Countdown star Carol Vorderman joked that she needed a butler before Paul interrupted to explain he was on hand.

Paul revealed that the Queen never ran a bath herself and had never been required to "put the plug in", while he prepared several towels for the matriach of the House of Windsor.

Paul Burrell has risked annoying the Royal Family by revealing the late Queen's private bathtime routine (ITV)

Peaking out from her sleeping bag, supermodel Janice Dickinson asked: "Did you have to like... Give the Queen a bath?"

"She did that herself," Paul explained, before adding: "You have to set the towels out in a special way and royals never run their baths, they're run for them."

He added: "So they never have to put the plug in."

Janice, 68, couldn't believe what she was hearing as she rushed to the Bush Telegraph to share: "Paul the butler from the royal house has the best stories on Earth.

Supermodel Janice Dickinson was keen to know more about Paul's life at Buckingham Palace (ITV)

"So I kind of ask him little questions here and there and he goes on and on and I'm like 'Ah, yes, yes!'"

Paul worked for the Royal Household at the age of 18, becoming a footman in Buckingham Palace.

Just one year later, he was made the personal footman to Queen Elizabeth, working alongside the Monarch on her day-to-day business in a private capacity.

However, in 1987, Paul left Buckingham Palace and joined the household of the then Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales at their country home, Highgrove.

Paul (back left) worked as the personal footman to Her Majesty the Queen (Getty Images)

Towards the end of his career within the Royal Household, Paul served as a private butler and was reportedly a close confidante to Diana until her death in 1997.

Following her death, Paul has frequently appeared in various media outlets sharing his stories of working alongside the late Sovereign as well as the Prince and Princess.

He has claimed Diana described him as her "rock" following her divorce from the now King Charles, although this has been detested by Diana's mother, Frances Shand Kydd.

Meanwhile, following the release of his 2003 memoir, A Royal Duty, Prince William and Prince Harry have claimed Burrel betrayed their late mother and branded the memoir "a cold and overt betrayal".

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