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Tamara Davison

Prince Harry will be a 'broken' man when he 'realises what he's done', Diana's butler claims

Royal butler Paul Burrell has suggested that Prince Harry will be a 'broken' man after 'realising what he's done' in the wake of his recent interviews.

The 62-year-old former employee of the Royal Household, who had worked for the Queen as well as Prince Charles and Princess Diana, said that he no longer recognised Prince Harry.

His remarks come days after the Duke of Sussex took part in another interview alongside Oprah Winfrey as he opened up about his mental health struggles and experiences in the Royal Family.

Addressing the recent Apple series interview, in which Harry appeared to take aim at his dad, Burrell suggested that Harry is going to cause himself 'so much more pain'. He also suggested that Harry had been 'blinded' by his wife Meghan Markle.

Paul Burrell said that he didn't recognise Prince Harry (Ken McKay/ITV/REX)
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"Doing what he's doing is only going to cause him so much more pain. I don't recognise him now - he's almost become the centre of his own world," he said in an interview with Closer magazine.

"He's hurting his family and saying things that I think he'll regret."

Paul added: "Meghan has encouraged him to get therapy and change his way of thinking - but I think he'll be left broken when this all stops and he realises what he's done."

In the new Apple series, titled The Me You Can't See, Harry went into detail about struggling with his past traumas as well as some of the methods he has found helpful.

The Duke, who is expecting a second child with Meghan, also reflected on the death of his mother as well as struggling with the trauma he associated with London.

He also revealed in the candid conversation that he only started looking into serious therapy after Meghan encouraged the royal to seek professional help.

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"I quickly established that if this relationship was going to work, I had to deal with my past," Harry told Oprah in the interview.

He added: "When she said, 'I think you need to see someone,' it was in reaction to an argument that we had. And in that argument, not knowing about it, I reverted back to 12-year-old Harry.

It has since been reported that the Royal family have been left 'deeply upset' by the latest revelation and the Queen has taken the interview 'very personally'.

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An insider told The Mail on Sunday: "Harry’s grandmother has taken this very personally and is deeply upset by what Harry has said, in particular his comments about Charles’s parenting and suggesting his father knows no better because of how he was brought up. It has been a very upsetting time."

Harry's latest interview alongside Oprah Winfrey came just months after Harry and Meghan sat down with the US talkshow host for an explosive interview that went into detail about their departure from Royal duties.

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