Burrell: The Rock in a hard place
Post categories: Hot Topics, Wrexham
|15:43 UK time, Sunday, 20 January 2008
That's the headline in today's Independent on Sunday and there are others as newspaper columnists have been having a field day over the testimony of former Royal butler Paul Burrell at the inquest of Princess Diana who called him her Rock.
Can Burrell butt out? writes Eilis O'Hanlon for the Irish Independent, while Scotsman headline writers suggest, What the butler didn't see.
It fair to say that Paul Burrell, well known in Wrexham where he has strong ties, felt like he was on trial during the hearing - but he didn't help himself.
Credibility can be such a blinking problem is the Sunday Times headline under which columnist Susannah Herbert says:
'... Burrell had failed to line up his testimony with A Royal Duty, his bestselling memoir. When told of his contradictions, he blithely disavowed the book, saying “there were bound to be” errors in it. Quizzed in court about his notorious claim that the Queen had warned him that there were “dark forces” at work in Britain today, he replied: “Does it say ‘dark forces’? Well, that’s an error. The Queen never mentioned dark forces.'
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