Prince Harry and Prince William held 'secret meeting to help shed light on the past'

The pair were joined by Princess Diana’s ex-butler Paul Burrell, The Sun has revealed.

Harry and William were reported to have last spoken to the 64-year-old after Diana's funeral in 1997 when they were 12 and 15.

But Burrell attended the meeting alone and answered the brothers' questions.

A royal source told The Sun: “It was a very low-key meeting but the brothers wanted to speak to someone who had been close to their mother.

“There were some aspects of her life they felt Paul could provide better clarity on.

“They asked to keep it all under wraps and he respected that.

"Paul was happy to tell them everything he knew and shed some light on their memories.”

Burrell, who was a confidant to Diana for the best part of a decade, was condemned in 2003 for writing a book about his time in her employ.

The former royal butler, who recently appeared on I’m A Celebrity: South Africa, opened up about how Diana “would have desperately wanted” to bring William and Harry back together.

The meeting between Burrell and the royal brothers came just months before Prince Harry married Meghan Markle.

The couple tied the knot at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.

It was originally believed Prince William was Prince Harry’s best-man for his special day.

However, writing in his Megxit memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex claimed he chose his “old friend” Charlie as his best-man.

The father-of-two recounted: “I asked what was really happening.

“Was he sulking because he wasn’t my best man?

“Was he annoyed because I had asked my old friend Charlie instead? (The Royal Family announced Willy was the best man as they had done with me when he and Kate got married. Did that have something to do with it?)."