From fur coats to fried chicken

1. Paul Burrell stood, shifting the balance between his feet, for about three hours at his meeting with the Queen that led to the collapse of the theft case.

2. ... Or more likely three minutes, according to other "Royal sources".

3. The Queen told him there were "powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge", but "it was like talking to my mum", he added.

4. When he was the Queen's butler, Mr Burrell would regularly watch television with the Queen. She sat, he stood.

5. Her favourite programmes were Morecambe and Wise and The Professionals.

6. She told Mr Burrell that she tried to "reach out" to Diana many times and that the two corresponded regularly right up until her death.

7. The Princess felt so close to her mother-in-law that she referred to £5 notes as "a blue granny" a £1O as "brown granny" and £50 as a "pink granny".

8. Some "grannies" were given by the Princess to Mr Burrell to purchase what are termed "top-shelf magazines".

9. The name on Diana's credit card said "Mrs Wales" and she flogged her spare clothes to charity shops to raise some of the necessary "grannies"

10. More "grannies" were dished out to prostitutes around Paddington to keep the girls off the streets.

11. The Princess was miffed to discover that one girl given a Marks & Spencer coat was not seen to be wearing it on the next trip.

12.The Princess attended a prayer session with Mother Teresa at a north London Mission. She took along Mr Burrell's mother, Betty.

13. The Princess helped get Mr Burrell's son Alexander a place at the London Oratory School.

14. When the Prince of Wales was in hospital after a hunting accident, his valet, Michael Fawcett, was required to hold the bottle when the Prince is asked to provide a specimen.

15. Prince Charles also ordered that his hospital room be equipped with furnishings from Highgrove.

16. Before their divorce, while he was at Highgrove and the Princess in London, the Prince also ordered the butler never to tell his wife his whereabouts and, if necessary to lie.

17. The Prince told Mr Burrell he could burn a table carved from a single piece of redwood, which had been presented to him by some South Sea islanders.

18. Mr Burrell was often called by the Princess in the middle of the night, either for long, confessional conversations or "to undertake tasks of a personal nature".

19. Some of these "personal tasks" included Mr Burrell smuggling his boss's lovers into Kensington Palace, ensuring that the police kept no record of the visitors.

20. Sometimes he had to fetch her then lover, heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, who would be found either at his local, the Angelsea Arms, or at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

21. When lovers stayed the night at Kensington Palace, Mr Burrell would prepare them breakfast.

22. The Princess is said to have wanted to marry Mr Khan and apparently considered getting herself pregnant.

23. She also asked Mr Burrell to find out whether it might be possible for a secret marriage with Mr Khan. Mr Burrell reported back that for her, it might be a little difficult.

24 The Princess thought it a merry jape to go to Boots and be seen buying pregnancy test kits and contraceptives.

25 The Princess was often prescribed sleeping pills. They were usually written in the name of a Palace servant.

26 On her 35th birthday, the Princess went out, allegedly to meet Mr Khan, naked apart from her sapphire and diamond earrings and a fur coat.

27 She refused to travel in Mr Khan's ageing car, just in case it broke down and they were caught together.

28 When the relationship cooled, she bombarded Mr Khan with telephone calls, using an American accent and calling herself Mrs Armani.

29 Mrs Armani got particularly upset once when Mr Khan refused to break off a heart operation to come to the phone.

30 To lure Mr Khan back, she contrived to be seen out with another prominent Asian, a millionaire businessman. This was also, it is said, the reason for her relationship Dodi Fayed.

31 According to Mr Burrell, she only spent 14 days in Mr Al Fayed's.

32 The Princess rejected his idea that they lived in the Paris villa once occupied by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor on the grounds that "there were too many ghosts".

33 She was considerably more interested in the £5m mansion Mr Fayed had bought in Malibu, on the west coast of the United States, which happened to be the former home of actress Julie Andrews.

34 She also wondered to Mr Burrell if Mr Fayed was a cocaine addict, because he spent so much time in the bathroom with the door shut.

35 The Princess was said to be at the receiving end of a foul-mouthed tirade from her mother, Mrs Frances Shand Kydd, over her relationships "with Muslim men" This was the cause of the split with the Princess for the last four months of her life, according to Mr Burrell, called from his pantry by his boss to listen to part of it.

36 Ah yes, the Butlers' pantry: Not much food of course, but plenty of photographs of the Princess, which Mr Burrell kept there to send out with her letters.

37 Also convinced her telephone was being tapped, the Princess asked a security expert to sweep Kensington Palace for bugs.

38 Mr Burrell's statements to police, as reproduced in various newspapers, provided a detailed rebuttal for most of the accusations of theft. Much of the clothes he was alleged to have taken was given him or his wife by the Princess, he said. Some of the stuff she had asked him to give away or sell he also kept, such as several "recognisable costume hats" because they could not be sold or because he chose not to sell them. The various photographs he said, were simply kept at the behest of the Princess or were ones she had asked him to destroy, which he had not done.

39 But she did not, it seems, give him what later became known, inevitably, as the "Crown Jewels" – a series of documents and items in a monogrammed box. As the trial heard, this included the signet ring of her lover James Hewitt.

40 The box is also said to have contained: "cruel and insulting" letters from the Duke of Edinburgh, a taped allegation that a male member of the Palace staff had been the victim of a rape attempt by another Royal servant, her divorce papers and the resignation letter of a senior aide, Patrick Jephson.

41 The aftermath: In the wake of the death of the Princess, Mr Burrell sealed all the cupboards in her apartments at Kensington Palace. They were broken open by her mother and sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale – nicknamed McCrocodile by the butler, (no love lost there) - and Lady Jane Fellows who, according to Mr Burrell, took away with several car loads of clothes.

42 Mrs Shand Kydd also spent a long time shredding vast amounts of her daughters private correspondence, helped by a glass or two of wine.

43 The two sisters, executers of the Princess's will, declined to honour cash bequests to her godchildren on the basis they were not 'paupers' the trial heard. They also sent one of the godchildren, Domenica, the daughter of the Princess's friend, Rosa Monckton, "a tatty brown box containing some pieces of china wrapped in old newspaper accompanied by a curt demand for a receipt"

44 The police investigated the rape allegation and the Prince of Wales is said to have hired lawyers Kingsley Napley to defend his aide in the event of a prosecution. The police were advised by the Crown Prosecution Service not to pursue the matter. The CPS took a slightly different view over the decision to prosecute Mr Burrell.

45 The black bags which a police officer at Kensington Palace saw Mr Burrell loading into his car in the middle of the night shortly after her death contained items of lingerie, gym wear, swimwear and so forth, which he "did not want to fall into the wrong hands." He burnt them all. Other items the police accused Mr Burrell of taking we held, he said, because he had seen what had been happening to the property of his beloved employer or that he could not deal with because the emotions after her death "were too raw"

46 After her death he was comforted by Michael Barrymore, with whom the butler struck up a friendship when the entertainer sought Diana's advice on how to deal with the media.

47 According to one newspaper which did not win the battle for Mr Burrell's story, this beloved employer was planning to sack him because he was caught reading her private correspondence. It also said he grovelled and kissed her feet to try and persuade her to change her mind.

48 It was also claimed that after one row, the Princess decided that she and her butler should only communicate by yellow post-it notes.

49 The post-it notes seemed an unnecessary luxury since Mr Burrell claimed to know what the Princess wanted even before she did. This uncanny knack apparently earned him the nicknames of "Psychic Paul" and her "third eye".

50 Mr Burrell is now considering an offer to host an American quiz show, imaginatively titled What the Butler Saw.