Former butler to princess diana claims prince Harry'd deployment to iraq was for publicity

Paul Burrell, the former butler of Britain's late Princess Diana, has launched a scathing attack on the royal family. The 48-year-old ex-servant's rant included a damning interpretation of Prince Harry's impending posting to war-torn Iraq, which he branded a publicity stunt.

Burrell told an undercover investigator for Britain's News of the World newspaper posing as a businessman: "Harry is a wild card - a liability. It's going to cost the taxpayers a lot to keep him safe in Iraq. It's just a PR exercise - because when he comes home he'll be a hero.

"He's off to war, to fight for queen and country, he's in the armed forces and has to go. But he won't be on the front line. They'll take great care of him. The queen will say, 'Fine, let him go but keep him somewhere safe.' Actually they'll have to be very, very careful. He'll be more difficult to guard there than he is at home."

The former "I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here" contestant also compared Prince Charles' new wife Camilla to a horse.

He said of Charles: "Well he likes horses! I'm saying she runs in the 3.30 at Kempton! Camilla's not attractive, but then he was never looking for the physical presence of a beautiful woman. He wanted someone that would look after him.

"Would you cross over the road to see Camilla? She's not one of the most attractive of women. And I'm being kind!"

Burrell also accused Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, of "pimping" out her young daughters - Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.

He said of the red-headed duchess: "This is a strange woman. She has a reputation of pimping her daughters into social situations which isn't very helpful. They're princesses, and they're royal - and she is not.

"Sarah was a farmer's daughter, brought into the royal family, like a little girl brought into a sweet shop and told she could have anything she wanted. And she did. She had everything, the lot. Abused everything and gorged herself. I saw it. She's a lady that has her finger on the self-destruct button and she just keeps pressing it. She can't help it."

The aspiring businessman and writer of several 'tell-all' books about Diana also claimed the princess' lover Dodi Al Fayed - who was killed with the princess in a Paris car crash in 1997 - was a cocaine addict.

He said: "When Diana and Dodi were on the Al Fayed yacht she called me and said: 'Dodi keeps going into the bathroom and locks the door. What's he doing in there?' I told her, 'You know what he's doing.' She was naive. She didn't do drugs."

Prince Charles thinks He's too old for princess Diana's concert

Britain's Prince Charles is "too old" to attend the Princess Diana memorial concert in July. Charles reportedly thinks the line-up for the Concert for Diana - picked by his sons Princes William and Harry to reflect their mother's tastes and their own - is too young for him.

Acts set to perform include Sir Elton John, Duran Duran, Joss Stone and Pharrell Williams.

A Clarence House spokesman on Thursday said. "The concert is really for the younger generation to enjoy. William and Harry are organizing the guest list.

"There will be a memorial service for Diana on August 31, which will be an event for all generations of the Windsors to come together."

Charles, 58, and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will stay away from the concert at London's Wembley Stadium, which takes place in the late princess' birthday, July 1.

Lily Allen, Kanye West, Rod Stewart and James Morrison on Thursday were added to the line-up.

It has also been confirmed that Sir Elton, will perform his revised version of "Candle In The Wind" which he sang at Diana's funeral in 1997.

Prince Harry will seek a leave of absence from his Army duties to attend the concert and the two princes plan to pay tribute to their mother from the stage during the event.

Madonna and Genesis have opted not to appear at the Concert for Diana and will instead perform at climate change event Live Earth, which will also be held at Wembley Stadium.

Book claims princess Diana married for fame

Britain's Princess Diana married Prince Charles out of a desire to become famous, it has been claimed. A new unauthorized biography - "The Diana Chronicles" by Tina Brown -alleges the princess pursued the prince despite warnings from her mother that she should marry for love, not status.

Brown - a former editor of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair - has reportedly received a $2 million advance for the book - which reportedly portrays Diana as scheming and ambitious.

Brown wrote an article 20 years ago entitled "The Mouse That Roared" revealing a dark side to Charles' and Diana's marriage.

She has spent years on the new book, speaking to 250 sources, some of whom had never talked about Diana in public before.

Brown opens the book with an anecdote recalling a lunch meeting she had with the late princess in the summer of 1997 at the Four Seasons restaurant at which Diana talked about moving to the U.S. She died in the same year in a Paris car crash on August 31, 1997.

Other revelations in Brown's book - of which extracts have been printed in U.S. Vanity Fair this week - include an allegation that the princess spent two nights with Charles on the royal train, before they were married.

Diana denied these trysts, but Brown claims a royal protection officer was the unimpeachable source of the report.

The book also claims Prince Charles was never unfaithful to Diana until her eating disorders and neurotic behavior drove him back into the arms of Camilla Parker Bowles - his now wife.

Brown also alleges Parker Bowles' true love was not Prince Charles, but her first husband, Andrew, who she alleges was a serial philanderer.