Princess Diana’s ex-royal butler has revealed how he believes that it was Lady Di’s ghost who ‘sent’ his now-husband to him, after the pair met on a train. Paul Burrell - who worked with Lady Di for a decade before her death - explained that he feels the late Royal sent his husband to him to ‘take care of me’. The 66-year-old said that he had a ‘sliding doors moment’ while on a train journey from Euston to Crewe in 2007, where he met now-husband Graham Cooper.
The pair locked eyes across the train carriage, quickly forming a rather unexpected romantic connection. At the time, Mr Burrell explained that he hadn’t officially come out as gay and had only recently returned to the UK after leaving his wife and two children in the USA.
Mr Burrell - who also served as the Queen’s footman - revealed that he and Princess Diana had an ‘understanding’ about his sexuality, despite him being married, to wife Maria Cosgrove, at the time. The pair had two sons, and were married from 1982 to 2016.
A year after his divorce, the former butler married Mr Cooper, 62, who he had met on a train back in 2007. When he was asked on the What If? podcast about how difficult it was to come out as gay, Mr Burrell said: "And one day, a sliding doors moment... I was on a train coming from London.
