BY POPULAR DEMAND.(The Talk of the Town)(conversation with Paul Burrell, Princess Diana's former butler, during his book tour)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 05-JUL-04

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In the art of the high-profile literary striptease, it is always wise to keep something in reserve. Drawn-out exercises in revelation often prefigure anticlimax, and a second book--or, at least, a tantalizing round of public appearances. And so it was, in the week of the publication of Bill Clinton's big, stainless memoir, that Paul Burrell, the beleaguered former butler of Princess Diana, found himself once again reluctantly preparing for the spotlight, in a one-night-only one-man show at Town Hall. (Three additional shows had been cancelled, for lack of audience.) He was promoting the paperback of his memoir, "A Royal Duty," which, according to its cover, "includes explosive...

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