Princess Diana’s butler Paul Burrell was sorry for Queen Elizabeth II after Prince Andrew’s controversial interview.

Just recently, the Duke of York has finally broken his silence about the Epstein scandal that has been plaguing him for months. Prince Andrew opened the matter in his interview with Emily Maitlis.

However, according to Burrell, the Queen would have found out about the interview over breakfast. Burrell said that Her Majesty checks the newspapers every morning.

“I’ve never really known him and that’s the honest truth. I feel sorry for the victims of this paedophile [Epstein], that’s where my sympathy goes. I also feel sorry for Her Majesty who’s 93 years old. Every morning I would set out her newspapers on her breakfast table, still happens to this day,” Burrell said on “Loose Women.”

“She sees the papers, all of them, they’re not censored from her. She sees everything, and I feel sorry that she has to see this. She’s a 93-year-old mum and she has to put up with this.”

Prince Andrew said in his interview that the scandal was not damaging to the Queen as it was to him. However, many believed that his interview was not helpful at all.

Royal correspondent Peter Hunt believed that some would question the Queen’s lack of judgment for allowing her favorite son to do an interview.

“That’s important, because that shows that her judgement is also being questioned for allowing her residence, Buckingham Palace, to be used for this. I suspect today, we will see coming out of Buckingham Palace what will be Operation Protect The Queen. I suspect there will be briefings suggesting that she didn’t know. But I think that’s shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted,” Hunt explained.

Some also accused Her Majesty of using Meghan Markle to cover the issues involving Prince Andrew and Prince William. Several were convinced that the Queen allowed the public to bash Markle so the focus won’t be on Prince Andrew’s Epstein scandal and Prince William’s cheating rumors. Thus, Markle was only used as a scapegoat.

Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Andrew
Pictured: Princes Charles, Andrew, Her Majesty following the Queen's Birthday parade, 'Trooping the Colour,' in central London on June 15, 2013. Getty Images/Carl Court/AFP