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A former Buckingham Palace butler has been unmasked as a sexual predator who ran a paedophile ring while serving the Royal Family.

Bachelor Paul Kidd, 55, groomed at least one of his teenage victims for sex by taking him for tea with the Queen Mother at Clarence House, it has emerged.

To the public, he had been the urbane gent who waited on the Royals for nine years - first the Queen at the Palace and then her mother.

He often publicly gushed about his blue blood employers talking of the Queen as 'courteous and genuinely caring.'

But behind the facade, Kidd was leading a secret double life as a serial child abuser who molested a string of boys over a 30 year period.

He was finally exposed after one of his victims read a newspaper article in which he boasted about his links to the Royals and talked fondly of Princess Diana and her musical tastes.

Police raided his two bedroom home in St Johns Street, Stalybridge, where they found almost 19,000 pornographic pictures and videos of children.

Included in the haul were some nude pictures of a teenager who officers were able to trace and interview.

Some images were hidden in a safe while others were encrypted on his computer.

Kidd admitted 29 sex charges involving three boys namely indecent assault, sexual activity with a child and the possessing and making of indecent images of children between December 1974 and January 2008.

An accomplice David Hobday, 56, of St Johns Street, Dukinfield admitted seven charges involving one of the victims of sexual activity with a child and possessing indecent images. Both men face a maximum 14 years in jail.

A police source said: 'Kidd was a very accomplished groomer of children.

'Given that he has been behaving like this for 30 years the likelihood is there could be many other victims out there who have not yet come forward.

'This man used his Royal connections to impress and seduce young boys. He even had autographed pictures of Manchester United players on his walls at home.

'He was acting with at least one other man and it's possible he could have been communicating with many other paedophiles over many years.

'These offences are probably just the tip of the iceberg.'

Kidd had honed his skills as a silver service waiter when he joined the Royal Navy after leaving school - looking after the captain and officers.

During his naval service he visited 22 countries around the world. In 1976 he was appointed as butler to the Queen at Buckingham Palace and served there for six years until being transferred to Clarence House where he served the Queen Mother.

During his years in Royal service, he was said to have met and looked after three American Presidents including Jimmy Carter and Ronald Regan plus many other Heads of State from around the world.

He was also said to have worked closely with Princess Diana at Buckingham Palace in the six months prior to her wedding to Prince Charles.

In 1985 he gave up Royal Service due to a cancer scare but then started charging up to £4,000 a time as an after dinner speaker talking about his work with the Royal Family.

He ran a series of lectures including one he called: An uncomfortable experience for the Queens page boy.

Kidd also starred on numerous TV chat shows in the UK and USA including the Caroline Rhea show in New York.

He also appeared on stage with Hollywood actor Robin Williams at the Nemacolin Spa & Resort Centre in the USA.

He joined Robert Kilroy Silk's UK Independence party standing unsuccessfully as a candidate in local council elections.

In one interview Kidd said of the Queen: 'She was always very courteous, but she only ever addressed me as 'Kidd' - never by my first name.

'She deals with people in a genuinely caring manner. Her children are the future of the country, they cannot be brought up in a namby-pamby manner.

'But in private, as a mother and grandmother, she dotes on the children.'

Police began investigating Kidd earlier this year after a victim, now 41 read a newspaper article about Kidd in which he talked about Princess Diana on the 10th anniversary of her death.

The victim was thought to be so disgusted by his bragging, he went to police and told officers how he was 14 when he was abused by Kidd after meeting him through a CB radio group.

Kidd introduced the lad to his Royal employers and took him for tea with the Queen Mother in the late 70s.

It is believed the victim even spoke to the Queen Mother - at a time when the late Royal had no idea he was being secretly abused by her servant.

It emerged he had met Kidd though a religious group when he was 14 and he was sexually accused and passed onto another paedophile.

A third victim later came forward to say he was abused in the 1980s when he was 15 after meeting him when Kidd was training to be a nurse.

At Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, Kidd and Hobday were told they would be sentenced on November 20 after probation officers complete a report assessing whether they are a risk to the public.

Various other charges will be allowed to lie on file.

Both were remanded in custody and Judge Mushtaq Khokhar told them: 'You have both pleaded guilty to serious offences and you will be under no illusion that the likely sentence is going to be custody.'

It emerged he had met Kidd though a religious group when he was 14 and he was sexually accused and passed onto another paedophile.

Police say they have uncovered millions of graphic images on videos and still photographs, some showing "extremely violent acts against children". Disks containing millions of video and photo files were shared by a network that distributed them in 75 countries.

SHAMED butler Paul Kidd spent nine years serving the Queen and the Queen Mother - then earned a living peddling memories of his time in the royal household.

He charged up to £4,000 for after dinner speeches, mostly to cruise ship holidaymakers. He also appeared on chat shows in the United States and set up a website royalbutler.co.uk.

Kidd never had major revelations - his speeches had titles such as Those Darn Corgis, How Did The Scots Guard Officer Make The Queen Blush At Balmoral? and An Embarrassing Moment For The Queen Mother's Lady-in-waiting.

But all the time Kidd was hiding a shameful secret.

And it was the interview in the M.E.N which led to his downfall, as one of the young men he abused was so angered when he read it that he contacted police.

Born in Ashton under Lyne, Kidd learned silver service in the Royal Navy and began working as butler to the Queen and the Queen Mother in 1976.

He bragged that he met three American Presidents, every king and queen in Europe and heads of state from around the world during his duties.

One of his favourite stories came from when Diana moved into Clarence House before marrying Prince Charles in 1981. Kidd said he was instructed by the Queen Mother to `get her used to being royal' and had to guide giggling Diana to correct cutlery at banquets.

He claimed he was asked by Prince Charles to become butler to himself and Diana but was forced to quit his job for cancer treatment - leaving the post open for Paul Burrell.

After surgery and chemotherapy at Manchester's Christie Hospital he started his new career, treating audiences to `hilarious' stories about his time with the Royal Family.

Kidd criticised Burrell in his interview with the MEN, saying: "I think Paul should put his word processor into retirement." In the same interview he claimed he was still invited to royal parties and had been given a `warm hug' by Diana when he bumped into her at the Dorchester Hotel two weeks before her death in 1997.

Speaking about his life as a former butler, he told the MEN: "The glamour has gone. I no longer have carriage duties. But I enjoy the talks I give, which give a lot of pleasure, and I get invitations to give presentations on cruise ships, which has taken me round the world."

The Queen's former butler has defended the Royal family in the wake of recent controversies.

Paul Kidd, who served the Queen and Queen Mother for nine years, claimed "poisonous elements" were trying to ruin the monarchy and also criticised his former colleague Paul Burrell for his "obsession" with Princess Diana.

He also hit out at Daily Mirror reporter Ryan Parry, who has made a series of revelations after working for two months as a footman at Buckingham Palace, and denied there was any truth in the recent undisclosed allegations about Prince Charles' private life.

Mr Kidd joined the palace as a steward in 1975, was made the Queen's butler in 1977 and then worked as the senior footman to the Queen Mother from 1979 to 1984, when a cancer scare forced him out of royal service.

Since then he has made a living by giving talks about life behind Royal doors to gatherings around the world - on Friday he was speaking to Abersoch Ladies' Luncheon Club at the Glyn Pub and Restaurant.

Mr Kidd, who lives in Cheshire, stoutly defended the Queen over the latest newspaper revelations alleging a lack of security at Buckingham Palace which this week welcomed President Bush and his wife on a state visit.

"The Queen has done the right thing in gagging the newspaper," he said.

"Her only mistake is she should have done it sooner .

"The journalist betrayed the Queen's trust which has brought disrepute on himself and showed the low standards of the newspaper he works for."

Mr Kidd was also dismissive of fellow Royal servant Paul Burrell whom he said he knew well as they worked together in the Royal household in the 1970s.

Burrell's was the Queen's footman when he was a steward at Buckingham Palace. He later became butler to Diana, Princess of Wales who, Burrell claims, described him as "her rock".

Burrell's recent biography of the princess has angered her sons, Princes William and Harry, who have pleaded with him to stop the revelations.

"He was affectionately known as "the doggie walker" in those days," said Mr Kidd of Burrell.

"He was trusted by the Royal family and I believe he has let them down badly.

"I am upset because it reflects badly on the staff and tars us all with the same brush."

Mr Kidd denied that Paul Burrell had made his revelations in his biography to make money, but said: "Paul's problem is that he has became completely obsessed about Diana."

He also defended Prince Charles against recent - so far unreported - allegations made by another former servant.

"I knew the prince very well and all I can say is these allegations our blatant lies.

"I think this is a 'get rich quick' scheme after Paul Burrell's revelations."

"I believe that there are poisonous elements trying to destroy the Royal family. "

blanc wrote:the guardian article, concerning Britain's position at the heart of an investigation into child pornography involving deaths is dated 2001. where are the arrests? why are the complaints and information of those who have witnessed the production of this type of material routinely ignored by police in the uk?

8bitagent wrote:England linked to production of child torture snuff porn ring:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Artic ... 46,00.html

People tend to think that the most unspeakable acts being committed are happening "over there in Africa" or elsewhere...when right in the cradle of upper crust world...be it England or Belgium, ect the most unthinkably horrific crimes against children are being acted upon...sometimes, by those who claim to be our protectors.

The more I know about this sick world, the more I'm willing to buy a lot of what's in David Icke's "World's Biggest Secret". I have no doubt a lot of these European officials are straight up theistic Satanists.

No need to dig any deeper. Just as expected, The Butler Did It!

8bitagent wrote:

blanc wrote:the guardian article, concerning Britain's position at the heart of an investigation into child pornography involving deaths is dated 2001. where are the arrests? why are the complaints and information of those who have witnessed the production of this type of material routinely ignored by police in the uk?

Same reason why the networks and elites associate with the Dutrox case
went un-investigated. You're getting into the darkest regions of the new world order when you talk about this stuff, or the esoteric mass killings going on across the Congo, Swaziland, Kenya, ect.

cptmarginal wrote:

8bitagent wrote:

blanc wrote:the guardian article, concerning Britain's position at the heart of an investigation into child pornography involving deaths is dated 2001. where are the arrests? why are the complaints and information of those who have witnessed the production of this type of material routinely ignored by police in the uk?

Same reason why the networks and elites associate with the Dutrox case
went un-investigated. You're getting into the darkest regions of the new world order when you talk about this stuff, or the esoteric mass killings going on across the Congo, Swaziland, Kenya, ect.

Well, not uninvestigated per se, just unreported and unpunished. At least we have a good part of the puzzle worked out: extreme-right groups within/linked-to the government security apparatus; in cases from previous decades this of course automatically relates to Operation Gladio and false-flag terrorism.

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LONDON -- George Smith, a former royal servant whose claim of rape sparked lurid tales of sexual misdeeds within the royal household, has died at the age of 44, his father said Friday.