Former royal butler Paul Burrell has claimed that he covered for Prince Charles when Princess Diana asked where he was during his affair with Camilla.
During the first episode of ITV's two-part series The Diana Interview: Revenge Of A Princess, Paul suggested that Princess Diana would often call him and ask where Prince Charles was.
Princess Diana would predominantly stay at Kensington Palace, while Prince Charles would often be living at Highgrove in Gloucestershire.
Paul said that he would advise Diana to speak to the prince himself about his whereabouts.
He said on the ITV documentary this evening: "Every weekend Princess Diana and the children would spend the weekend at Highgrove. But during the week I was the butler for the Prince of Wales at Highgrove.
"Now there were two very different lives at Highgrove - one a family unit and a single man's life in the week.
"The Princess would ring me up during the week and say 'where's Prince Charles?' and I'd say 'I can't really say, you'll have to ask him'."
Probed on where Prince Charles was, Paul claimed: "He was out seeing Camilla Parker Bowels. He'd say 'Well I'm feeling awfully tired tonight. I think I'll take an early night, I'll have my dinner at 7 instead of 8'.
"So I'd set up the dinner table and he'd eat alone, he'd light the fire and have his dressing gown on and watch the television - but as soon as I cleared the dinner the car was roaring down the drive."
Meanwhile, other insiders on the documentary suggested that Princess Diana was lied to by almost everyone.
They said: "From the police to the courtiers to the chef, to the valets to the footmen who all knew and subscribed to Princess Charles's undercover relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles but told Diana a separate story.
"People have said 'oh she was paranoid' but she had every right be paranoid because she was being consistently lied to, not just for 20 minutes here or there but for ten years."
*The Diana Interview: Revenge Of A Princess is available to watch on ITV Hub
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