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Palace Staff Tells All! Butlers, Cooks and Valets Reveal Royal Family’s ‘Secrets’ in Bombshell Book


Palace staff tell all in Tom Quinn's book, Yes Ma'am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants. He gives exclusive info to Life & Style from butlers, cooks and valets.

Tom tells Life & Style he was “astonished” to hear from multiple palace staffers that “one of the things the royals found difficult about Meghan Markle was that she was a bit too relaxed for [such] a very formal family,” which caused friction. “At bedtime,” she added, “I had to take all the teddies off and arrange them around the room.” Former royal protection officer Paul Page said in an ITV documentary that “if those bears weren’t put back in the right order by the maids,” the Duke of York “would shout and scream.” She’d often eat from “a tray in front of the TV,” Darren further shared, adding that the royal regularly joined him in the kitchen to “vent about things” and sometimes “just burst into tears.” Other times, he fondly recalled, she’d tell “a dirty, risque joke and you’d think, ‘I can’t believe Princess Diana just said that!’”

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