(21 Jun 2004) SHOTLIST

1. Tilt down exterior Theatre Royal
2. Close up crest
3. Mid shot people waiting to go in
4. Mid shot Paul Burrell, Former butler to Princess Diana on stage
5. Close up Burrell
6. Cutaway photographers
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Burrell, Former butler to Princess Diana:
"Well they won't get singing and dancing, they'll expect an evening of memories, they'll expect an incredible story of a lifetime of royal service and more, because a lot's been written about me in the last few years and it's my chance now to interact with the audience and say this is me, this is who I am and I'm very proud of who I am."
8. Burrell on stage
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Burrell, Former butler to Princess Diana:
"I know that if the Queen read my book tomorrow, she'd know that her secrets were safe, because remember I stood beside her for 11 years."
10. Burrell standing on stage:
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Burrell, Former butler to Princess Diana:
"I tell you knowing her so well, and knowing that I wrote the book with her memory in mind on every single page, I think she might be up there having a good giggle."
12. Various cutaways of Burrell on stage
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Burrell, Former butler to Princess Diana:
"I make no apology of making money out of the book, because the book is a tribute to the princess, it's a tribute to her life it's a loving note, in memory of her and people forget what's been taken away from me in the last seven years, a great deal, and I'm restoring that and as any parent and father would do I'm looking after my family."
14. Wide shot people waiting to go in
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox Pop:
"I think he's been a good guardian for Diana's memory and people who criticise him, haven't read his book."
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox Pop:
"I think the sort of Diana fans maybe think that he is cashing in on it, I think, so I think that it's a mixture of suspicion.
(What do you think the show will do for his image?)
Maybe the latter, I think, I don't know, I think he was besotted with her, but hopefully he'll tell a lot of truths tonight."
17. Various woman buying tickets
18. People going in to see show

BUTLER BURRELL TAKES TO THE STAGE

Princess Diana's former butler took to the stage on Sunday with a one-man stage show - about his relationship with the princess.

Paul Burrell, the long time servant of Diana, was vilified in the press and criticised by the princess's friends and family when he published his book, "A Royal Duty," last year.

Burrell said the show was an opportunity for him to show audiences who he really was.

Burrell, a longtime royal servant and confidant of the princess, was tried in 2002 for stealing hundreds of items from the estate of Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997.

The case collapsed when Queen Elizabeth II told prosecutors that Burrell had told her he was holding some of Diana's things for safekeeping.

His book painted an intimate picture of Diana's private life.

It included extracts from testy letters between Diana and her father-in-law, Prince Philip, and a letter from the princess's brother in which he expressed fears for her mental state.

Diana's sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, called the book "a cold and overt betrayal" that would have "mortified" Diana.

Feelings in the audience were mixed ahead of Sunday's show, with some fearing he could be cashing in on the princess's memory.

The show will run for one night at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane before going to New York's Town Hall Theatre on June 24 and 25.

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