WILLIAM and Harry secretly met mum Diana’s ex-butler Paul Burrell before the Duke of Sussex’s wedding.
The royal brothers were reported to have last spoken to him after her funeral in 1997 when Harry was 12 and Wills 15.
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But we can reveal they met at Kensington Palace in 2017, a week before Harry announced his engagement to Meghan.
Paul, 64, attended alone and answered all their questions.
A royal source said: “It was a very low-key meeting but the brothers wanted to speak to someone who had been close to their mother.
“There were some aspects of her life they felt Paul could provide better clarity on.
“They asked to keep it all under wraps and he respected that.
“Paul was happy to tell them everything he knew and shed some light on their memories.”
Paul was Diana’s confidant for ten years until her death in a Paris car crash.
But in 2003 the princes condemned him for writing a book about his time working for her.
Paul, recently seen on I’m A Celebrity: South Africa, said earlier this year he wished to reunite the warring brothers — as it was what Diana “would have desperately wanted”.
He and the royal household declined to comment.
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