Princess Diana’s former butler has urged Meghan Markle to ‘get on with having a baby’. Paul Burrell, who served as a footman to the Queen before working for Diana, said ‘time is marching on’ for Meghan, 36, and Harry, 33, to start a family.
Speaking to Yahoo News, the 60-year-old said: ‘There’s not much time left for Meghan, she’s going to have to get on with it. Two [children] would be enough for Harry.
‘I think, yes she did want to be famous, she’s got everything that she wanted, but I [also] think “be careful what you wish for” because sometimes it’s not all that it seems.’
But Paul, who last year married his lawyer boyfriend Graham Cooper, predicts Meghan will fall pregnant ‘very soon’.
He added: ‘They will have a baby within the first year of their marriage.
‘Well, she will be pregnant within the first year of their marriage.’
The former servant, who has two sons himself from previous marriage to wife Maria Cosgrove, also shared his thoughts on Meghan’s family.
‘I think the best thing he could do is stay quiet and try and reach out to his daughter. Somebody has to fix it. Before it gets more broken.
‘Thankfully Meghan’s mother has survived with dignity and style and that’s the way forward,’ Paul continued.
Paul entered Royal Service at age 18, as a Buckingham Palace footman, becoming the Queen’s personal footman a year later.
And in In 1987 he joined the household of heir to the throne Charles and Diana at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire, where he acted as butler to the princess until her death in August 1997.
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