Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell has announced he has been diagnosed with cancer. Paul, from Wrexham, made the announcement live on Lorraine on Monday morning.
Speaking to host Lorraine Kelly, he said he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in the summer and had flown to America to break the news to his sons.
He explained: 'I was wrapping Christmas presents and was thinking would I be doing this again next year. I went over to the US to see my boys and told them. They were like, "we need to spend more time together."
"My father days are over. I don't want anymore children I have two wonderful boys. Not everything finishes because you lose your prostrate. You can still have a good sex life but you have to talk about it. Talk about it, don't hide it."
He added his diagnosis was slightly different as he described it as a "blister" and said that if it bursts it could potentially spread cancer cells throughout his body.
Paul said that he is due to undergo an operation next month as Lorraine said she planned to support him through his health struggle.
He added: "I'll get through this," during their candid chat.
Burrell first joined Charles and Diana's household at Highrove House, Gloucestershire, in 1987 as the butler to the princess until her death in 1997. At the time, he suggested that Diana had said he was "the only man she ever trusted".
Since his royal career ended, Burrell famously appeared on 2004's I'm A Celebrity and went on to star in a number of reality and TV shows - Australian Princess, Stars In Their Eyes and In Therapy.
Prince Harry described how Paul Burrell's 'tell-all' Diana book made his 'blood boil'. In his memoir, Spare, Harry describes how he believes Diana's former butler was "milking her death for money" when he penned A Royal Duty in 2003, adding that it "made my blood boil".
Harry does not name Mr Burrell, who became a florist in Wrexham following Diana's death, but he details how he received a package of "royal memos" from the palace about the book while working as a farmhand in Australia at the age of 19
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