Princess Diana’s butler is spilling the tea on the royal family’s favourite drink and just how often it was consumed.

Paul Burrell, who served as a footman for Queen Elizabeth II for 11 years before leaving the role to become Princess Diana’s butler from 1987 to 1997, has long dished on his time working within the royal residences.

In his new book, The Royal insider: My Life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana , Burrell revealed that gallons of gin were consumed each week at Buckingham Palace — “some legitimately, some not” — which was just a drop in the naughty bucket.

“It wasn’t just bed-hopping that went on in the palaces; there was a degree of inebriation which often helped loosen people’s inhibitions,” Burrell wrote, per the Telegraph .

“Forget Buckingham Palace, it

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