{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/658300edbbd71a00174fea51/68a85407718453410e355d26?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The King's former butler on what life is really like in the Royal family","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/658300edbbd71a00174fea51/1755873235921-434e63e3-8426-4e4f-a2c0-969dea2780f6.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>On today’s Daily T, Grant Harrold recounts his extraordinary journey from a terraced house in North Lanarkshire to serving as butler to the then Prince of Wales at Highgrove.</p><p><br></p><p>Harrold’s boyhood fascination with the Queen set him on a path that ended with a critical role in the inner sanctum of every day Royal life, and he tells The Daily T how a young Prince Harry dropped water bombs on him, how the Queen’s mischievous nature saw him sprinting along a corridor with her at Charles’ residence in Scotland, and how Prince Philip turned the air blue after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding in 2018.</p><p><br></p><p>He also states his belief that, although having left the household by then, Harry and Meghan’s unflattering account of life in the Royal family “doesn’t ring right” to him.</p><p><br></p><p>‘The Royal Butler: My remarkable life of royal service’ by Grant Harrold is published by Seven Dials on August 28 2025</p><p><br></p><p>Producer: Georgia Coan</p><p>Senior Producer: John Cadigan</p><p>Executive Producer: Charlotte Seligman</p><p>Planning Editor: Venetia Rainey</p><p>Video Editor: Will Walters</p><p>Studio Director: Meghan Searle</p>","author_name":"The Telegraph"}