He was the favourite footman who formed a unique relationship with the Queen. He was the butler whom the Princess of Wales called ‘my rock’ and ‘the only man I can trust’. He was accused of theft, then acquitted following the historic intervention of the monarch. He was the princess’s most intimate confidant and is the only person able to separate the myth from the truth of the Diana years.
It is the story of how a boy from a coal-mining village came to swap terraced streets for gilded palaces. It’s a story of shocking secrets, absolute power and unlikely alliances.
