King Charles entrusted Elizabeth II’s secret diary to the “silent butler” Paul Whybrew

Queen Elizabeth II had a secret diary and for over seventy years she updated it every night: before going to bed she used to write a couple of pages for about fifteen minutes. Now King Charles III entrusted that diary – and other documents classified as “top secret” – to one of the men her mother trusted the most: Paul Whybrewdubbed by the British tabloids, due to its confidentiality, «the silent butler». Mr. Whybrew, also known as “Tall Paul» (he is over six feet tall), is the man who in 1982 knocked out the intruder who had sneaked into the Queen’s bedroom at Buckingham Palace. Thus it was that she won the trust of the late sovereign, who in the following years put him at the top of the royal staff.

Now that Elizabeth is gone, it is up to the faithful butler (retired) to “study” those pages, kept in Windsor Castle, which also tell the more private side of the Queen. It will be him determine which part of the documentation may be released in the National Archives and which instead, being too sensitive or personal, will remain confidentialand preserved in the archives of King Charles.

Mr Whybrew, who is in his 60s and served Queen Elizabeth for 44 years, was said to have been “pleasantly surprised” by King Charles’ appointment. Which in exchange for his delicate work he made available to him a cottage on the Windsor Castle estate in which he will be able to live for the rest of his life. «Tall Paul», according to the British tabloids, he spends about two days a week sifting through priceless documents. And in order not to damage the ancient papers, he touches them strictly with the gloved hands.

King Charles could have entrusted his mother’s handwritten pages to a team of historians, but instead he chose Paul. Because, as he explained to the Daily Mail a source from the Palace, the sovereign «for this task he needed someone he could trust, someone who will never say a word about anything he finds. Tall Paul is the keeper of the Queen’s secrets. There is no one else the king would have entrusted with such an important job. This is the ultimate reward for his faithfulness.’

In several months, when his task is done, the butler will present the catalog of documents to the king, who will make the final decisions on which ones to make public and which ones to keep confidential. What exactly is written in Queen Elisabeth’s diaries, of course, no one knows. According to the British press, however, in those pages the monarch would have narrated her own in detail, among other things meetings with Diana to discuss the separation from Carlothe conversations with Prince Harry about Megxit, and the opinions on the fifteen Prime Ministers appointed in the seventy-year reign. Much of that material, of course, will never be made public. And Mr. Whybrew certainly won’t think about giving satisfaction to royal gossip enthusiasts. A former royal assistant indeed assured: «Paul is so discreet that he will take the Queen’s secrets to his grave».

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